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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

Crane-Out

We had our crane-out on Saturday 5th October. The forecast during the previous week was for light winds, and rain all day, but in fact, the weather was dry all day, and even quite warm for October. All boats were safely and successfully lifted ashore for their winter layup. A bit of excitement was added to the day when one of our safety boat drivers, Callum Calder, who also serves as a volunteer More »

9 Oct 2024

Closing Cruise to Aberdour

On Saturday 21st September we had our Closing Cruise to Aberdour. We left Cramond around 3pm and a cool north-easterly force 4 gave us an excellent sail across the firth. Four yachts took part: Pegasus II, Scherzo, Innisfallen and Stravaig . Once the boats were all safely secured in Aberdour harbour the crews got together on Alan Hampson's lovely Stravaig for a few refreshments before we headed More »

25 Sep 2024

Final Autumn Series Races

On Sunday 15th September we had our final two races in our dinghy Autumn Series. A brisk and shifty south-westerly breeze gave the competitors some close racing. Ewan Christison sailing a Laser/ILCA7 wrapped up the series with two wins. Narrowly beating commodore Lawrie Elliott sailing his Aero 5 was new member Jill Reid sailing a Laser Radial/ILCA6 with two second places. A special mention to Steven van Stiphout completing his More »

24 Sep 2024

Dinghy Autumn 6

Race one of Saturday afternoons Dinghy Autumn 6 series saw three dinghies pick their way round a triangular course in the lightest NE breeze. In race one Ewan Christison in his Laser finished just ahead of Campbell Calder in his GP14 but Campbell took the bullet on corrected time. Leonie Griffin and Janice Kerrisk were unfortunate to sail into a calm area and eventually had to retire from the race. Race two was held over More »

10 Sep 2024

Final Training

On Saturday 7 September we had edition 6 of our Cadet training. Our Cadets did exceptionally well and managed around an hour and a half of sailing before the sea Haar came rolling in and we all had to head for shore. Also training on Saturday were two of our Sea Monkeys, Cerys and Tunde who completed their Stage 3, very well done to them. As ever a big thank you to the safety boat More »

10 Sep 2024

Dinghy Autumn 5

On Sunday 1 September we had part 5 of our dinghy Autumn series. The racing was held in a cold grey north easterly and the breeze was up for the first race with the gusts up at force five. Ewan Christison in his Laser/ILCA7 set the standard for the afternoon recording three first places and following on with three second places was Leonie Griffin and Janice Kerrisk in their Wanderer. Janice and Leonie had set More »

4 Sep 2024

Upcoming events

Oct 17

19:00 - Training: Power Boat Level 2 T…

Oct 19

Crane Out Reserve Date 3

HW 1634 5.9
Oct 19

13:00 - Training: Power Boat Level 2 (…

Oct 19

14:30 - Dinghy FB1

HW 1634 5.9
Oct 20

13:30 - Training: Power Boat Level 2 (…

HW 1718 5.7
Oct 23

19:30 - Main Committtee meeting

Meeting in clubhouse
Oct 26

19:00 - CBC 90th Birthday Ceilidh

Nov 2

12:00 - Training: Power Boat Level 2 (…

Nov 2

13:00 - Dinghy FB2

HW 1457 5.3
Nov 3

12:30 - Training: Power Boat Level 2…

HW 1528 5.3
Nov 9

Training (TBC)

HW 1528 5.3
Nov 9

19:00 - Guest Speaker - James Ogilvie…

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