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Festive Bar Opening Hours
Seasons Greetings to all our members, I am pleased to say we have a new member of staff joining us to open on Sundays once more from 5th January. Niamh will be joining us during the New Year openings. The bar will be open the following times over the festive season: Friday 20th Dec 5pm - 9.30pm Saturday 21st Dec 3pm - 8.30pm More »
16 Dec 2024
Final Frostbite Races
A hardy bunch of sailors gathered for the final racing of 2024, Frostbite 5. An air temperature of 5 degrees with a chill breeze blowing a F3/4 WSW didn't deter Lawrie Elliott on his Aero, Salty Horse , and Andy Carr on a club Laser battling it out for first and second places respectively in each of the three races. Further down the field was Steven van Stiphout and his friend Adam on More »
15 Dec 2024
Prize Giving 14th December 7pm
Our new date for our prize giving is this Saturday 14th December starting at 7pm. This year there will also be a special presentation to our retiring RYA Principal Drew Pratt to mark his 40 years of service to training at the club. This is a free event open to all members but we do ask that you bring a dish, sweet or savoury. We will eat first with the More »
12 Dec 2024
Frostbite Series
Our Frostbite series resumed on Saturday 30th November after we had lost a couple of race days due to poor weather. Indeed the forecast for the 30th looked poor, but there was enough of a weather window for race officer Andy Carr to get three races away. The racing was dominated by Ewan Christison sailing his Laser/ILCA 7, however the current series leader is Keith Driver sailing an ILCA 6. Race More »
12 Dec 2024
Mark Lifting and Navigation Buoys
On Saturday 30th November Campbell Calder and Chris Callender recovered our race marks for the winter and carried out repairs to one of our river navigation buoys. This job is usually done in early October but a mixture of poor weather and other commitments meant that we were somewhat delayed this year. Fortunately on the day, in spite of there being high winds forecast, we had a weather window with very More »
12 Dec 2024
Moorings Maintenance
Our annual moorings overhaul took place on 7th and 8th December in bitterly cold and difficult conditions. Rain and strong northerly winds had been forecast for the weekend, although not as severe as the gales that Storm Darragh had brought to the south-west of the country. Moorings Convenor Alastair Johnson and his team decided to wait until Saturday morning to make a decision on whether to go ahead. Neither the river flow nor the More »
8 Dec 2024
Upcoming events
| Jan 21 |
09:30 - Karate training (non-public)Non-public karate training session |
| Jan 22 |
19:30 - Main Committtee meetingMeeting in clubhouse |
| Jan 28 |
09:30 - Karate training (non-public)Non-public karate training session |
| Feb 1 |
Training: Winter Race Coaching… |
| Feb 1 |
14:15 - Dinghy Free SailHW 1630 5.7 |
| Feb 4 |
09:30 - Karate training (non-public)Non-public karate training session |
| Feb 9 |
10:30 - Dinghy Free SailHW 1217 4.7 |
| Feb 11 |
09:30 - Karate training (non-public)Non-public karate training session |
| Feb 15 |
14:30 - Dinghy Free SailHW 1629 5.4 |
| Feb 19 |
19:30 - Main Committtee meetingMeeting in clubhouse |
| Mar 1 |
13:00 - Dinghy Free SailHW 1529 5.9 |
| Mar 15 |
Training: Winter Race Coaching… |