Aug 20

Harbour Race

Come on chaps and lassies. School holidays are over so back to business. Come and join in the Harbour Race, great fun - your never far from the shore so if you fall in you have only got to walk.

Lets get sailing this autumn - I look forward to seeing you all

Aug 02

Gybe club sails for gold

Jul 19

Nab Tower Race – Sunday

Weather looking fine for Sunday's Nab tower race - looking forward to seeing lots of people down at the club on Sunday!

Jun 18

Welcome to the RYA Southern Region Website

Welcome

Jun 18

About the Region

The RYA Southern Region incorporates all RYA Affiliated Clubs and Organisations in Hampshire, South East Dorset, the Isle of Wight, and Chichester Harbour, plus a few London based and Sevices Clubs whose sailing base is in the Southern Region, approx. 160 in total.

Jun 07

RNSA Cruisers witness the 3 Queens in Southampton

Solent Cruising Group Members joined in the Diamond Jubilee celebrations along with the 3 Cunard Queens RNSA Porstmouth Cruising Group celebrated the Diamond Jubilee by joining in the celebrations of the 3 Cunard Queens in the Solent on Jubilee weekend. 7 members booked in and many of them actually made it despite the frightful weather!! Lonk Avel & Pipkin slipped their berths on Monday for Universal Marina in the Hamble.

Jun 07

RNSA(P) Early Summer Series Race 9

Breezy finale to the Early Summer Series With the wind gusting up to 25kts it was a fast and furious finale to the Early Summer Series. The IRC results confirmed that “Tinker T” (David Bunn) was the series winner but the minor places could only be separated by the second tie resolution with “Sunshine” (Malcolm Roberts) finishing ahead of “Kurketrekker” (Stephen Parry).

Jun 06

East Coast Calais Rally

Annual Branch foreign cruise 15 members and four boats joined with the Little Ship Club and Thames Estuary Clubs for the annual visit to Calais. Little Ship Club records show the first vist being in 1923, 85 years ago. Numbers down due to the competing Jubilee events on the Thams and across the country.

Jun 05

River Dart Diamond Jubilee Parade

RNSA Boats take part in the celebrations Nicko Franks, Dartmouth resident and longstanding RNSA Member, set to and organised a very successful parade of boats on the River Dart on 4 June to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee, with the help of the Harbourmaster and members of the Dartmouth Yacht Club. Officially 60 boats took part, one for each year of The Queen’s reign, but several others joined in at times for part of the route.

Jun 05

Jumping for Jubilee

Young sailors fly the flag at Lee for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Joining the weekend’s celebrations Lee’s Gybe Club sailors took to the water turning their bunting into burgees.

Along with learning the essentials of sailing at Lee, Gybe Club sailors joined in a special Sail for Gold Diamond Jubilee sailing relay race. The winning team’s skippers all received RYA Sail for Gold medals. Encouraging youngster to discover all aspects of sailing including creating a fun, friendly and competitive environment are regular ingredients to a regular Saturday morning Gybe Club session

A big thanks