The Midlands leading dinghy sailing club, RYA affiliated traning courses open to members and non members. Sailing open 12 months per year for racing and cruising. The craft sailed at Staunton Harold Sailing Club vary much in appearance and performance. The youngest members tend to start out in small, stable, single-handed boats such as Toppers or Optimists, and progress into the larger and faster boats as they gain confidence. The adults sail a wide range of boats from Toppers to 29ers. Boats are either single or double handed, whilst some, such as the club's Laser13s are suitable to take whole families. Sail plans also vary between 1, 2 and 3 sail arrangements, with some boats having traditional symmetrical spinnakers or the latest asymmetric spinnakers. Whilst most boats are monohulls, multihulls such as the Challenger trimaran used by disabled sailors can also be sailed at the Club.
Windsurfers are also often seen on the water. The only restriction on boat types are that boats with fixed keels and with Portsmouth Yardstick numbers of less than 900 cannot be sailed on our water. All boats can take part in cruising on any day in the sailing season (March - December) provided that rescue cover is available. For those who want to race, any boat type can compete in the handicap series provided that it has a recognised Portsmouth Yardstick Handicap number. When several boats of the same type race regularly, they are given fleet status and during the summer / autumn series these race separately from the handicap fleet.
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80 acres of former gravel pit situated just 5 miles from Derby provide a family friendly, convenient club. We mainly sail the more traditional classes of dinghy (Laser, Ent, Grad, GP, Mirror, Wineglass, Comet, Solo, etc). We have a particularly strong Sailability section and thriving junior/youth section. We race from end March to end December, and the water is available year around.
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Toddbrook Sailing Club is a non-profit-making organisation run by its members. We are a small but friendly and enthusiastic sailing club with an active social scene and are situated in the High Peak with fantastic views from our boats on the water over the Peak National Park.
Club racing takes place on Sundays from February to November and Wednesday evenings during the summer months.
Throughout the season we will host several Open events, which will attract sailors from around the country. Events we host on a regular basis are, Derbyshire Youth Sailing, Enterprise Training Day, Enterprise Open (North West Circuit), High Peak regatta and Graduate Open.
We sail most of our races on a handicap system and so can accommodate different boats but our largest fleet are the Enterprises. There are also GP14s, Picos, Toppers, Graduates, Larks, Mirrors, Topaz and a couple of Windsurfers.
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