Manor Park Sailing Club provides a warm and friendly atmosphere where you and your family are welcome. We offer excellent facilities for sailing and have a number of social events planed through out the year
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The North Staffs Sailing Club offers good facilities for both beginners and experienced dinghy sailors alike with only non-powered watersports allowed on the reservoir ensuring that the peaceful surroundings are maintained.
The aim of the Club is to encourage all types of sailors, not just the racing fanatic and beginners to the art are warmly welcomed. Older hands are only too pleased to advise and help. The club has four fully equipped club dinghies, which are available for use by club members free of charge.
North Staffs Sailing Club is a RYA recognised sailing centre and runs a number of introduction to sailing and intermediate level training courses throughout the year.
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A friendly family club catering for all ages and abilities. Racing takes place on Sundays from early March and continues until mid December. We also race on Wednesday evenings from April until September. Training events and other activities are organised on Saturdays throughout the year.
The club encourages fleet racing and has established fleets for Enterprise, Solo and Laser Classes. There are also two mixed fleets of asymmetric and non-asymmetric boats which include a growing number of Laser 2000s. The mixed fleet includes a number of classes the largest of which is the National 12s. The club also owns several boats for use by members including Challengers and Access dinghies which are particularly suitable for people with a wide range of disabilities.
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South Staffordshire Sailing Club offers competitive restricted class racing for both the experienced and not so experienced sailor, coupled with an active training programme throughout the year. Part of the appeal of South Staffs is due to the strict restricted classes policy operated by the club.
Whilst this may be seen by some people to restrict the potential membership, the aim is to provide members with close racing against people in similar boats. Another advantage is that there is always someone in the boat park to provide assistance with boat setup and tuning. The five classes available to adult members are Lark, OK, GP14, Solo and Firefly. A brief description of the characteristics of each class can be found below. For further information on a specific class, follow the links above.
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Aldeburgh Yacht Club situated on the Suffolk coast is a large and thriving club catering for all aspects of the sport of sailing. Located between the sea and the River Alde one mile south of the town of Aldeburgh the Club is able to organise racing on the river and, for dinghy open meetings and certain other events, on the sea.
There is active racing at weekends from April to December with both keelboat and dinghy classes and a more frequent programme, particularly amongst the youth and junior classes, during August. There is also an active cruiser fleet with organised events both locally, in the Thames Estuary and further afield. Members also own a number of motor boats and RIBs/sports boats of various sizes.
Classes sailed at the Club are the Dragon and Swallow (three man keelboats) the Squib, Flying Fifteen and Loch Long (two man keelboats), 2.4M (single-handed mini keelboat capable of being sailed by the disabled), RS400 (fast asymmetric two man dinghy), Laser II, Wayfarer and Lapwing (two man dinghies), Laser (single-handed dinghy) and Mirror, Topper, Junior Lapwing & Optimist (junior classes).
The Deben Yacht Club was founded in 1838, and is now a thriving and active club in the upper reaches of the River Deben. Its Clubhouse at Woodbridge is unique to the area, being built on piles at the riverside, and having fine views of the river and the sailing.
The club operates two dinghy parks and maintains a launching ramp and pontoons, providing access to the river for dinghies and small cruisers. It also administers a number of moorings adjacent to the club.
A full racing programme is organised, normally from March through to December, with Handicap racing for Dinghy and Yacht fleets, and competition is fierce with a wide range of dinghies competing. In addition a number of Open Meetings for various dinghy classes, typically Mirror, Topper, Laser and OK are held each year and attract many visitors thus giving additional competition. The Yacht fleet, apart from having the opportunity to race, also has several organised short cruises each year.
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An active, friendly and welcoming sailing and motor cruising yacht club based at Suffolk Yacht Harbour at Levington on the River Orwell. The racing programme extends from early Spring to New Years Day and offers events ranging from the gentle and gentlemanly to the downright competitive, with several club boats each year flying the flag (and generally doing well) at Cowes or Cork or further afield.
We have a Squib (keelboat) fleet that keeps going through thick and thin, and generally has more races in its calendar than there are weeks in the year, and a very active and professionally-run youth section which does everything from sheltered-water dinghy tuition for the very young to real racing, via all the supporting skills-training like first aid, RYA instructorship, liferaft drill, safety boat driving and so on, not to mention a fair bit of offshore crewing in each others family cruisers and (of course) the occasional party.
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A friendly family club sailing mainly on the sea. Variety of dinghies - 505, Javelin, Contender, Laser 4000, Laser Pico, Laser. Southwold Sailing Club is situated in an area of outstanding natural beauty at Southwold Harbour, approx. one mile from the mouth of the River Blyth on the Suffolk Coast. The objective of the club is to promote and provide facilities for coastal sailing.
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Young People Afloat are an RYA recognised teaching centre. We teach dinghy sailing at Lackford Sailing Base at Lackford Lake, Bury St Edmunds. We are a youth group for youngsters between the ages of 9 and 18. We meet Wednesday evenings from May until September.
The volunteer instructors are all appropriately qualified, and train members to Royal Yachting Association (RYA) standards encouraging them to take the tests in the RYA scheme as a means of attaining essential practical sailing techniques and skills. YPA also holds regattas and other events for its members during the summer season. As a youth group we are affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association, Suffolk Water Sport Association, St. Edmundsbury Sailing and Canoeing Assn, Suffolk Clubs for Young People and National School Sailing Association.
The Mariners have a well deserved reputation for being a very friendly club with a relaxed atmosphere, so if you're interested in sailing, do feel free to come and visit us for a chat. You don't need to own a boat to join the club. You may find it beneficial to crew for other members to gain experience before or after joining an RYA course. This will also help you to decide what type of boat is likely to be most suitable to your needs.