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by Richard Lambert A record ten competitors assembled at Bough Beech SC for the Start Racing Course Regatta. Now in its fourth edition, it has become an established fixture on the club's calendar. The event is run exclusively for members who have taken part in the RYA Start Racing course, with the aim to give competitors a full racing event experience, the difference being that everyone is at a similar level of ability. Some were competing in an organised race for the [...]

Over 100 crews including many visitors raced our popular annual icicle series in a variety of wind and weather conditions during January and February. Congratulations to our winners Elliot (conventional class) and Paul & Verity (assymetric class) Many Thanks to all our volunteers who worked so hard to make the event a success and to everyone who competed.  We hope to see you all again next year! Photos Conventional Class Results Asymmetric Class Results [...]

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 [...]