Hundreds of visitors took the chance to try sailing and speedboating for little or no cost in May, at 20 clubs and centres around Wales in this year’s RYA Push The Boat Out.

Plans approved Gosport Borough Council has approved plans to redevelop Haslar Marina. The work will include a new powerboat centre, a new club house, greater wave protection and additional deep water berths for the growing market of 16m-18m boats. A new base for the British ocean racing team, Alex Thomson Racing, will be built, and the team will be taking delivery of a new IMOCA 60 Hugo Boss later this year for the 2020 Vendee Globe campaign.

A group of like-minded women – who have been involved in sailing from a young age or as part of the recent RYANI Women on Water programmes - are getting ready to celebrate with a day-long festival at Strangford Lough Yacht Club in September.

Youngsters take on the Three Rivers Challenge

Dozens of young boating enthusiasts from sailing clubs around Southampton and the New Forest areas are expected to come and take part in next month’s RYA OnBoard Festival 2019 at Southampton Water Activities Centre (SWAC).

The Lowestoft sailing charity Excelsior Trust, last week launched four sailing scholarships for young people aged between 16 and 24, living in Norfolk or Suffolk.

Help disabled children and adults to experience the joys of sailing.