Nazaré Surfing

This page carries 11 schools. 11 are confirmed against the register. Read 2026-08-19.

Every one of them is here because the RNAAT register lists it, and each entry links to the record it was read from. Nobody assessed any of them. Being in a register is not an inspection. Nothing on this page was read on the schools' own sites, so it carries no quotes and no languages.

Every business the Portuguese state licenses to run board sports in the concelho of Nazaré, read on 19 August 2026. All 12 carry an RNAAT number, the licence a business must hold to trade in these activities, and the register that issues it is public, so any number here can be looked up in that source. 9 of them publish a website in the register. Absence means something on this page. A business missing from it is one the register does not license for these activities in this concelho, which is a fact about the business rather than about the completeness of a list. What the licence never says is which sport. Surf, bodyboard, windsurf, kitesurf, skim and stand up paddle are a single item in it, held by 1,300 businesses across Portugal, so the state licenses board sports and says nothing about which of them a school teaches. Nothing here was read on the operators' own sites yet, so this page carries no training body, no languages and no quotes, and nobody assessed any of them.

On a dive page, Green Fins means a named third party visited the business and scored it. Nothing on this page is like that. What is here instead is a register entry: a body publishing the business in its own list, which settles that it is listed and nothing else about it.

What absence means here. A business missing from this page is one the RNAAT register lists nowhere in this place. That is a statement about a list and not about a school: it may never have joined, or may teach under a body that publishes no list at all.

A register entry can be opened; a claim cannot. Every affiliation taken from a register links to that body's own page for that business, so the listing can be read at the source instead of taken from here.

Why these registers and not others. A register earns its place here by being enumerable and citable: it has to list who is in it, and each entry has to have a page that names the business, so a reader can check the claim instead of taking it from us. Most do neither. Green Fins is the case that shows the difference, because its members are the best evidence in this directory and its member pages render the same bytes for a real centre and an invented one, so a Green Fins fact is stored with a centre id and never cited as a link. Twenty-five were tried and nine answer: what each one returned, with the date it was asked.