Coming Soon: Thursday Evening Racing
This year Thursday evening sailing will start on MAY 24th. Race starts 19:00 hrs.
Bough Beech Summer Party
7.30pm SATURDAY JUNE 16TH TICKETS £15 - INCLUDES FOOD AND LIVE MUSIC Tickets must be bought in advance and will be available to buy from the galley during May. Payment by cash or Cheque Cash Bar
Noble Marine Supernova Traveller’s Trophy By Chris Watts
Despite relatively small turnouts in the previous two years that this event has been held, it was decided to have another go this year, especially as this is still the only event south of London. In fact there was one more boat than last year with 6 visitors joining 4 club boats. Although the forecast was for force 4 southerly gusting 5, with some sun later, those arriving to sail on the 250 acre reservoir, set in attractive North [...]
Streaker Class Open 2018 Report and Video
A good turnout of 16 boats arrived at Bough Beech for the 2nd round of the Streaker Southern Paddle series and plenty of breeze turned up too. In Race one, a trio of the more experienced pond sailors, Alex Reindorp and Paul Grace from Chipstead and James Dawes from Redditch all stormed to the front and fought each other round the first mark and down the proceeding run. Mark Langston and Brenda Hoult made the most gain down the [...]
2018 Icicle Open Series
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Finn Open 2018 Report
1st Allen Burrell 2nd Dan Patten 3rd Richard Sharp Race Results 2018 Finn Open On Saturday 7th April 2018 Bough Beech hosted a Finn open meeting which was shared with Supernovas and Streakers. Visitors arrived from the East Coast, the South Coast and the South West. Upon arrival the wind was light from the East but soon built to a gusty and shifty 12 – 18 knots from the South. This enabled the race team [...]
Race Officer Training Course
Anyone with an active racing background and a little knowledge who'd like to join the Race Officer (RO) group to do their duties, or who would like a refresher, please let me know asap. . The course is bespoke to BB and is not certificated. It covers everything you need to know equipment wise, procedurally, the practicalities and limitations of BB before lunch, after which half the group will have a practical session on Wot4 with volunteers as guinea pigs, the [...]