Weymouth
Sailing
Club

Friday 18th March 2016 12.30 for 1.00 - Open to all.
2 Course Luncheon - £11.50 per person, this includes VAT

Booking form here.

On Saturday 23rd April the R.D.Y.C. is organising a Parade of Boats in Weymouth Harbour to celebrate our Monarch’s 90th Birthday.

All boat owners are invited to join the celebrations and join the fun.

The Mayor of Weymouth & Portland will be Guest of Honour taking the salute from outside the R.D.Y.C.

Around 30 people came to listen and learn from Adam’s Talk last Friday. It was an inspiring talk brought to life in the second half with a sail being stretched and shaped with a view to understanding mast bending, luff curves, outhaul and kicker tensions, not to mention that curiously named cunningham (invented by a doctor of the same name). All this to optimise the 4th corner of the sail. As usual there was something for everyone – It won’t escape your attention that World and National Champions find these talks compelling! Don’t miss this week’s talk by Chris Watts and Megan Pascoe.

Come to hear local author Lizzie Church at the first Weymouth Leviathan Maritime Literary Festival, on Saturday 12 March, at 5pm in the Old Rooms Inn, where she will be discussing the influences of Jane Austen and the sea on her historical romances – novels which carry you gently back to the Regency era in Weymouth, when the King came down on his holidays here, and visitors bathed in Weymouth bay from horse-drawn ‘garden sheds’.

Tickets £4 from The Royal Dorset Yacht Club or http://weymouthleviathan.org.uk/tickets Use code WEYLEVBFF for a discount.

Why not pop down to the club this Friday Night and listen to one of Adam's Talks

Starts 7:30.

Weymouth Sailing Club members squeezed into the Crown Hotel, Weymouth to celebrate its 103rd prize giving.

The Mayor, Christine James, was welcomed by Commodore Euan McNair who was joined on the top table by the Weymouth lifeboat coxswain Mr Andrew Sargent and his wife Helen along with Vice-Commodore of Castle Cove SC, Mr John Kirby and his wife Elizabeth.

Weymouth Sailing Club’s very own novelist, Jane ‘Lizzie’ Church, has been invited to give a talk at Weymouth’s first ‘Leviathan’ maritime literary festival, to be held at venues along Weymouth riverside on the weekend of 12-13 March 2016. With a title of ‘The sea, Jane Austen and me’, Jane’s talk will explore the maritime influences on the novels of Jane Austen, and how these, in their turn, have impacted on her own, more modest, works. Along the way she will be looking at the many challenges faced by historical novelists – and some of the tricks and techniques she uses to overcome them.

Weymouth Sailing Club will be holding its first beer festival at the club on Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 February. There will be twelve Dorset ales and three local ciders.

On Wednesday last week, a bunch of sailors from WSC’s cruiser class bravely ventured into uncharted waters (north of Dorchester) for the London Boat Show.

With Rob ‘Scenic Route’ Horton on navigation, we spurned the traditional Jubilee line passage at Waterloo and instead took the high-risk but far more peaceful river service from the London Eye to North Greenwich pier.

The 2015 YOBs prize giving was held at WSC last Friday, when our new Commodore Euan presented the cups with the help of Gary Owens.

Alexandra Stevenson picked up the most cups with six racing cups and the Top Girl Award. Her sister Emma picked up a racing cup as well as Cadet Of The Year for the 4th time in six years for her outstanding work with the yobs during this year.