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Bough Beech Sailing Club Icicle Open Series 2022 Preview Bough Beech Sailing Club is much looking forward to holding its annual open handicap event as the New Year starts, the Icicle. The event comprises an eighteen race series for monohull non-foiling dinghies to be sailed under PY handicap over nine Sundays between 2nd January and 27th February  2022 (wind permitting.)  Racing will be on the “average lap” format and will be organised into two classes with separate courses, one for [...]

SOLO OPEN MEETING ON 9 OCTOBER CANCELLED. We regret that due to the forecast lack of wind, we have reluctantly decided to cancel the Solo Open Meeting on 9 October 2021.

A fantastic forecast saw a whopping 30 sailors arrive for a very competitive day of racing at Bough Beech Sailing Club on Saturday 11th September. Sailors came from all over the south east to take in the beautiful scenes of Bough Beech reservoir, and to race of course! The race officer, Richard Bone, planned 4 races around a windward leeward course with an upwind spreader to prevent too much carnage at the mark rounding with full rigs and radials to [...]

Date: 15th August 2021 Time: From 14:00am The BBQ will be lit and our SUP Captain George is providing liquid refreshments. All you need to bring are your boards and your food to cook on the BBQ. Please remember if you bring in your own equipment you should have 3rd party insurance as per Club's Regs. If you are a Member please ensure that you have paid for your board fee on your Membership Any questions email Georgina at comms@boughbeechsc.org.uk

SOLO OPEN MEETING ON 10 JULY CANCELLED. We regret that due to the forecast lack of wind, we have reluctantly decided to cancel the Solo Open Meeting on 10 July. We will try to reschedule it for later in the year.  

On Saturday 17th April 2021 the Finn fleet converged on Bough Beech for the first Finn open meeting of the year. There was a fantastic turn out of around 20 boats and everyone seemed very happy to catch up again after along winter. The socially distanced outdoor briefing and prize giving worked very well and the sunshine made the outdoor changing almost pleasurable. It was a stunning day with unbroken sunshine. The wind was blowing the N/NE which resulted in [...]

We are delighted to confirm that, in line with the government’s recent “Covid-19 response: Spring 2021 document,” we will be able to resume sailing, wind surfing and SUPing at Bough Beech from 29 March.  This will include organised Club dinghy racing on Sunday mornings. We still need to operate under Covid-19 regulations, and we will be re-posting the relevant details on the website, but broadly speaking we will be following the same rules as we had last summer. We will [...]

A very Happy New Year to all our members and let’s hope it brings better sailing than in 2020. Racing Update Sadly, we will be unable to start the Club Winter Championship on 3 January as we had planned.  It does not look like any organised racing is going to be allowed for some time.  However, the Notice of Race says even one race constitutes a series, so we will keep it on the table, so to speak. Schools Members [...]

Further to the notice sent to members on 19 December about the Government’s declaration of new Tier 4 rules and how they might affect the club, we have now had guidance from the RYA on what is and is not permissible. The good news is that unlike in November, the Club does not have to close.  Members may continue to sail their boats at any time between 0900 hrs and sunset, however The club gates will be padlocked at all [...]