A fantastic weekend of sailing for the Sailboat Trailers Firefly Inland Championships. 41 boats took part in 8 races over the weekend with various race winners throughout both days. It was really lovely to see school, university and fleet sailors all racing together. More photos on our Facebook page
Another group successfully completed the RYA Start Racing course today. Felicity, Olly, Mark, Andy and Freddie all decided to explore the thrills (and yes, there was a few spills…!) of racing sailboats. Despite the sometimes biblical September weather we have had, over the three Saturdays the sun shone and the wind was always in a manageable range between 6-12kts. A minor miracle! The course covered all the essential elements of racing; the rules, the starting procedure, strategy and tactics, optimal [...]
For the last three years the club has run an RYA Start Racing course to help enable members to navigate the sometimes daunting prospect of joining in with club racing. What the course syllabus lacks is a real-life Open meeting experience, with an NoR, SIs, registration, briefing, committee boat starts and a prize-giving. So the club now stages an exclusive regatta for the people who have completed the course. The prospect of racing against your own peer group is far less terrifying [...]
Exciting Kit News...... We have a new kit provider, St-Cyr, who are able to provide a wide range of clothing and hats branded with the Bough Beach logo. Follow the link below: New Bough Beech Kit
On Saturday 10th September a regatta exclusively for people who had enrolled on, and completed an RYA Start Racing course that Richard Lambert ran for the last two years with John Williams, was staged. The course covers most of the aspects of dinghy racing; boat preparation, tuning, the start, key racing rules, tactics etc, but what it needed was an actual peer group "Open Meeting" style race to tie everything together. So I put a proposal to sailing secretariat Martin Burgess [...]
Despite the extremely light wind conditions on Saturday, our fleet of around 20 RS Fevas managed to fit in 4 average-lap races. Conditions varied - the wind tends to shift a bit at Bough Beech, and so there tended to be biases on the start line, and more wind further away from the shore and treeline. The course shifted to the left twice throughout the day, following the direction of the wind. This was sometimes hard to follow, but kept [...]
Join us at BBSC for an Open Day! Date: 21 May 2022 Time: 11:00 to 15:00
The 2022 Bough Beech Finn Open was to go ahead on Saturday 2nd April. This was the 3rd event of the new BFA Spring Series. These events are intended to spread the Finn events around some of the clubs that haver smaller home fleets and give sailors a chance to blow away the winter cobwebs. For the final stage of the serious preparation for this event, two thirds of the Bough Beech fleet convened on the Friday evening to discuss [...]
In advance of the 2022 AGM, please click the hyperlink to access the: Agenda and List of Candidates 2021 AGM Minutes
After a boisterous opening to the Icicle, we have had two, mostly fine Sundays of light and variable westerlies which, because of the orientation of Bough Beech reservoir, is trickier for race teams and competitors alike. The length of windward legs is constrained, and a low sun directly in line with a crowded start line is a RO's nightmare. However all six planned races have been completed. 16th January was particularly trying with racing postponed until a light breeze dispersed [...]
