Rosie Hinge
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Joint Sail with Cody SC to Drakes Island
What a Great Day and a Great Sail! On Bank Holiday Monday, 6 May the group of dinghy sailors assembled at 0815 and surprisingly were ready to leave the hard on time at 0900………. leaving at the scheduled departure time is something of a rarity for the dinghy sailors! Two dinghies were crewed by members
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The Club is selling its Lark Dinghy
For Sale – Lark Sailing Dinghy Baker Hull, main sail is old but still has a reasonable shape. Hood jib is much more recent and is still crinkly. Cover good for several more years or use. No spinnaker, pole or Launching Trolley. Boat may look a little scruffy but it is sound with no
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Cody are here !
Cody Sailing Club describes itself as “a virtual club” and is based in Hampshire. They don’t have a clubhouse but their members come together to enjoy Family Camps and Dinghy Cruising along the South coast of Britain. They reached out to WQSC again this year and together with the generous help of our local landowners,
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First Cruise in Company This Year
The forecast for the weekend of April 27/28th had been very variable and somewhat off-putting during the previous week. However, four boats left Weir Quay on the morning of the 27th in fair weather and were able to sail to the Sound in a gentle north-easterly breeze. Anna Catharina and Bronte decided to anchor for
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A Beautiful Evening On The Water
Our third evening of club Dinghy training this year was relatively warm but with a cool wind that started strong and then gradually died as the evening progressed. It was rather beautiful on the water, as these photos show!
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Windy First Dinghy Evening
A few hardy stalwarts braved the gale-force winds and rain yesterday for the first Friday Evening Dinghy Session of the season. The decision was made to keep the sailing sessions short and to limit the number of dinghies in use, so that crews had the chance to warm up after their blustery sails. Hopefully we
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Lifejacket Lessons
Our third Winter Talk took place last night at Bere Alston Bowling Club and our speaker, David Johnson gave us a truly fascinating insight into how important life jackets are to us and particularly to offshore sailors. He explained what happens to us after falling into sea water and how short a time we would
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Our Barn Dance Last Weekend
On Saturday 9th March, the club revived a past tradition when it held a Barn Dance at the Parish Hall in Bere Alston. The evening was so well organised by our two Social Secretaries, Sue and Katherine and we had the wonderful Dartmoor Pixie Band playing music while we danced to the instructions from their
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Upper Tier of Gabions Going Well
A gang of Gabion Fillers, drawn from both the sailing club and the gig club, assembled again at the Hub Club today. Their task was to move rocks by hand from the huge stack, piled up in the parking area, across to the staging and into the upper gabion baskets. Heavy buckets of rock were
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Advice from the Cruising Association
For our Cruising members, you may wish to see this information on the Cruising Association’s website page Save the Date – An Evening with RATS | CA (theca.org.uk) They propose that you save the date for an evening with the CA’s Regulatory & Technical Services group (RATS) at 1900 GMT hours on Thursday 21 March