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Welcome

Welcome to the Cramond Boat Club, situated at the mouth of the River Almond, only 4 miles from the centre of Edinburgh.

We cater for all types of small craft, including dinghies, small cruisers and motorboats. The Club organises dinghy and keelboat racing, open regattas, cruises and family fun days.

The Cramond Boat Club is an RYA Recognised Training Centre and is approved for training Club members in the RYA National Sailing and Power Boating schemes.

The clubhouse includes changing rooms, workshop and storage as well as a bar and function room.

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Latest news

"Making a Splash" Poetry Evening with Cramond Writers

In partnership with the Cramond Association, CBC was delighted to play host to the Cramond Writers Group on an otherwise dreich March Monday evening. Setting the scene for this literary soiree, master of ceremonies David Bleiman highlighted our location's existing literary claim to fame. During his law student days the writer Robert Louis Stevenson frequented the Royal Oak Inn just along the quayside from here. Dubbed The University of Cramond by RLS and his classmates, More »

1 Apr 2025

Spring Work Parties

With two weeks to crane-in, many jobs around the club were tackled by various work parties on the weekend of 29th / 30th March. An enthusiastic gardening party worked on the bank to the north of the clubhouse, cutting back earth, grass and weeds from the roadway and trimming overhanging branches. Meanwhile further vegetation was cut and trimmed around the dinghy park. Another group launched the workboat and gave all the moorings a More »

30 Mar 2025

Work Party Saturday 15th March

The sun shone down us as we tidied up the hedge that runs alongside the public path at the Dinghy Park and the bushes on the riverside. John Kenworthy fixed one of our RIBs and Campbell Calder engaged in the seemingly endless task of tidying and sorting the tool store. We had a fanatic turnout (see picture) which resulted in the work completed on time: a bit of a first at Cramond! More »

19 Mar 2025

Cold Free Sail

On Sunday 9th February we had a Free Sail in a very cold force three to four north-easterly breeze. In spite of the cold conditions the sailors managed a couple of hours on the water. This was also the first outing for Istvan Csajaghy's beautifully restored 1950s GP14. Thanks to Lawrie Elliott and Rob Mendes Da Costa for Safety Boat cover. More »

13 Feb 2025

Upcoming events

Apr 7

19:30 - Assemble Mast Crane

Apr 12

Crane In 2025

Apr 13

Crane In 2025 Reserve Date 1

HW 1602 5.3
Apr 13

10:00 - Post Crane In work party

Apr 16

19:30 - Main Committtee meeting

Meeting on Zoom
Apr 19

10:00 - Dinghy Park work party

Apr 26

Crane In 2025 Reserve Date 2

HW 1411 5.5
Apr 26

Training Cadets 1

HW 1411 5.5
Apr 26

12:00 - Dinghy SPR1

HW 1411 5.5
Apr 27

Training Sea Monkeys 1

HW 1455 5.8
Apr 27

12:30 - Cruiser W1

HW 1455 5.8
May 2

17:00 - Dinghy Free Sail

HW 1906 5.1

Tide predictions for Leith

Wednesday

2 April 2025

HW 06:00 5.49m
LW 11:53 0.71m
HW 18:20 5.64m
LW 00:19 1.03m

Thursday

3 April 2025

HW 06:46 5.18m
LW 12:31 1.06m
HW 19:13 5.23m
LW 00:52 1.56m

Friday

4 April 2025

HW 07:39 4.82m
LW 13:22 1.46m
HW 20:16 4.80m

Saturday

5 April 2025

LW 01:44 2.09m
HW 08:45 4.50m
LW 14:49 1.83m
HW 21:34 4.46m

Sunday

6 April 2025

LW 03:38 2.46m
HW 10:06 4.33m
LW 16:58 1.87m
HW 22:59 4.34m

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