Margate Yacht Club is a family sailing club that has members of all ages. The aims of the club are to promote sailing, which it has done very successfully over the years. The club has two main activities, dinghy and cruiser sailing that are carried out at weekends and some evenings in the summer.
Dinghy Racing is carried out at weekends between April and November on Sundays and Bank holiday Mondays. The club has re-introduced the Wednesday evening series between June and July. After sailing the club offers a T-Bar and Licensed bar to compliment the good sailing. Our fleet comprises of Phantom, RS Vareo, Snipe, Topaz, Enterprise,Laser II and Laser Vago.
The Club has a number of cruiser owners who either moor their boats in Margate harbour, Ramsgate Marina and other mooring facilities such as Sandwich and up at the Swale.
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WSC is a friendly, family-orientated club 30 minutes from London (on a Sunday morning!), and probably the most active club for dinghy sailors in north Kent. It is located on the River Medway well below the point where it becomes wide and is thus ideal for dinghy sailing both up and downstream. Launching is at all states of the tide from a slipway and adjacent shingle beach. Members sail a wide range of boats, which are split into fast, medium, slow and junior handicap fleets.
There is also class racing for Miracles, while Laser 2000's are becoming popular in the medium fleet. Examples of the 29er, Buzz, Contender, Kestrel, Lark, Laser, Laser Radial, Laser 3000 & V3000, Laser 4000, Laser Vortex, Osprey, Phantom, RS400, RS500, RS600, RS800, RS Vision, Topper, Wayfarer classes are all raced regularly in the handicap fleets. The club organizes a number of open handicap events throughout the year, including a Topper/Laser open, the Wilsonian Grand Prix and Medway Dinghy Regatta in June/July, a Winter Series through November and December, and the Chilly Willies race on 1st January.
The club also helps run the famous 'Hoo Freezer'. Club racing is year-round, apart from a short break in January, and is generally on Sundays, though from May to August there are races on Wednesday evenings too. Training is also a strong feature of the club, at beginner level and beyond, both in dinghies and in safety boats. As a Volvo RYA Champion club, junior training is also strongly emphasised. Off the water, a large clubhouse accommodates changing and showering facilities as well as food and drinks bars and social activities such as parties and barbecues.
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Aberdeen and Stonehaven Yacht Club (ASYC) is unusual in that it offers sailing opportunities at different venues during the year. From March to the end of May the club operates on the freshwater Loch of Skene, 10 miles west of Aberdeen. This loch is an ideal location for relative newcomers to dinghy sailing, as well as providing a great location for competitive racing. At the beginning of June the club''s activities move to the more challenging North Sea coastal waters at Stonehaven where sailing takes place until mid-November. ASYC does not formally specialise in any particular class of dinghy, though Fireball and Laser have been become distinct fleets, and it is hoped to develop RS200, Blaze and Musto Skiff as racing fleets.The club owns a number of boats including twelve Optimist dinghies, five Toppers, two Lasers, one 420, one Laser 2, and an RS Feva.
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Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club enjoys a magnificent location, situated on the banks of the River Wyre in the midst of an area designated of special scientific interest. The waters are ideal for sailing dinghies, with easy access to the open sea for larger yachts. The footpath, Wyre Way, passes through the club property. There are no restrictions on what classes can be sailed, typically the dinghy fleet consists of RS 400s, RS 200s, Merlin Rockets, Phantoms, GP14s, Lasers and Toppers.
The dinghy fleet is split into a fast handicap fleets (for boats of PN1178 or less) and a slow handicap fleet. Racing takes place year round. Keel boats and offshore yachts also race year round. Racing from September to March takes place in the River Wyre estuary between Skippool and Fleetwood. In the summer months, racing takes place in Morecambe Bay for suitably equipped yachts. The offshore fleet includes a growing number of quarter tonners, although any yacht can race, with handicaps are allocated by the offshore committee. The club also has a strong and active Soling fleet.
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The Club is a RYA Recognised Training Establishment. The trainers are volunteers and we are not a commercial organisation for training the general public. Training is focused on our members.
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Dovestone Sailing Club has sole use of the almost 100 acre reservoir at Greenfield near Oldham. It is set amid dramatic scenery in the PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK off the A635 Greenfield to Holmfirth Road, via Banks Lane. It is approximately half a mile from the Clarence Hotel at the junction of Chew Valley Road and Manchester Road Greenfield. Give us a call or just drop in.
We sail a variety of boats including Pics, Lasers, Flying 15's, RS Feva, windsurfers, Topper, Optimist, Vortex, RS200, Mirror, Lightening and many other classes.
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The club is based on Rishton Reservoir. Its an RYA Training centre, offering most levels of dinghy sailing tuition and power/safety boat courses.Club racing/sail training takes place on wednesday evenings and sunday afternoons. The club has three slipways to the water and the clubhouse has good changing facilities, kitchen,comfortable lounge, wet room and function room. Newcomers to the sport are very welcome.
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Leigh & Lowton Sailing Club sails on Pennington Flash on the outskirts of Leigh. The club races throughout the year and is host to one of the biggest winter series in the UK. Racing is mainly on a handicap basis with Solo''s raced as a fleet on Sundays. During the summer, racing takes place on Wednesday evenings, Saturday and Sunday with the Junior Section meeting on Friday evenings.
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RYA Training Centre, friendly seaside club sailing handicap dinghy & cruiser races. See website.
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The Rossendale Valley Sailing Club has been in existence since 1968. Its location at Clowbridge Reservoir near Burnley, high up on the East Lancashire Moors, provides an excellent sailing location. The 90 acre lake situated at a height of over 700ft above sea level provides a first class high wind venue.
The club was originally constituted as a dinghy club, supporting fleets of enterprise, laser and fireball dinghies. Following the introduction of windsurfing in the early eighties it was quickly recognised as an ideal inland water to develop the sport. The popularity of windsurfing was embraced by the club and a strong windsurfing membership was established. Increasing club membership and the launch of the National Lottery provided the club with an opportunity to develop. An application to the Sport England Lottery fund was made in 1997.
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