Sailing Club News – Thursday 27-May-21 As the pictures show, we have been enjoying some great sailing in the last couple of weeks. You will have noticed the work happening on the lakeside of the training room where a patio slab base has been created for the planned gazebo. It’s only a year late [...]

Sailing Club News – Thursday 13-May-21 Today is the first scheduled Thursday evening improvers session – you should all have seen the booking email yesterday. (Hopefully on Monday we will be one step closer to just being able to turn up to sail with no booking….). From 6pm there will be two RIBs on [...]

Sailing Club News – Thursday 29-Apr-21 We have been enjoying a bit more breeze these last couple of weeks; Andy Jones described conditions last Sunday as Champagne Sailing! This has certainly produced some more exciting pictures for me to paste into this news! Also, a word of thanks once again, to John Bone for, [...]

Sailing Club News – Thursday 15-Apr-21 Two weeks of sailing behind us now and what a pleasure it has been to see members enjoying the chance to sail, boat bimbling and much washing, so many displaced spiders (!) and our radio sailing group back stronger than ever. I hope you find lots to read [...]

Doug Pattison and his Speed Sailing Exploits circa 1980 Although the sight of foiling 60ft yachts travelling at speeds in excess of 50 knots is now almost commonplace, have you ever taken time to ponder who were the early pioneers of speed sailing and what those early attempts at maximising wind powered speeds looked [...]