The very latest class of yacht to sail at Chew Valley Lake Sailing Club is the DragonFlite 95 (DF95). She is 95cm in length, is a fast, easy to sail, restricted one design radio controlled model yacht to be raced as supplied by the builder and must comply with the restricted class rules. They [...]
Sailing Club News – Friday 06-Nov-20 Many of you must have a sense of déjà vu as we find ourselves back in Lockdown ‘light’. Well, ‘light’ in terms of schools, universities and bizarrely, garden centres…. One or two have expressed surprise at not being permitted into the club site to check on their boats, [...]
Sailing Club News – Friday 23-Oct-20 Warning from Bristol Water – they have detected a raised level of Blue/Green Algae in the lake. They advise taking extra care handwashing, showering (unfortunately not at the Club), and thoroughly cleaning your sailing kit. Last week saw our first AGM carried out via the ether – Zoom! [...]
Ollie Wilcox at Vilamoura Sailing Club News – Friday 09-Oct-20 This weekend would have seen the Club hosting one of our biggest events of the year, the Fireball Inland Championships with the Flying Fifteen S.W. Traveller open. This, along with the RS200 Open meeting on Saturday 24-Oct-20, Visitors Day on the 25-Oct-20 and the [...]
Sailing Club News – Friday 25-Sep-20 We continued to enjoy some lovely September weather last weekend – mostly sunshine and a great breeze. The booking numbers have been consistently high and the lake has been particularly colourful with the return of the students practicing team racing (but otherwise keeping themselves to themselves). Pandemic related [...]
