May 24

Shower

There is now a shower fitted at the club so that members can wash off after sailing - it's outside, so remember to bring your trunks!

You will find it between the green safety boat container and the club house - it is gas powered, so the water will be warm!

You also have to bring your own water. 

Instructions for use are attached...

May 24

RNSA(P) Early Summer Series Race 7

Summer at last but a bit too light for some. Summer at last. Shirt sleeve evening sailing although for some of the heavier boats it proved a lengthy day and not always fruitful. The whole fleet mustered at Gilkicker along with a couple of visitors, “Electronique” (Fred Portwine) and “Sea Nymph III” (HMS Collingwood).

May 24

Services Offshore Regatta 11-16 Jun

Skippers, Crew and Mates needed! Please come and get involved - we need more crew for this inter-service regatta. Please contact James or Clare (see committee page) if you are able to come and race. We welcome young and old, old faces and new. Provided you have a little experience of yacht sailing before this is the regatta for you.

May 24

Regates Imperiales – Corsica

RN Team Compete against French and Italian Navies RC(O) Hungry Wheal is leading a team of 10 in racing a 64’ foot classic yacht in the Med against the French and Italian Navies. This is about as swanky as yacht racing gets and a real contrast to the normal Solent regattas. Hot off the press – RN crew have won today’s race! The word on the dock is that there were a few baggy heads in the team after yesterday’s racing was cancelled and the crew.

May 24

Royalist MSSC Regatta

RN team 2nd overall after an excellent day's racing A scratch RN crew was put together for this event generously sponsored by Sir Donald Gosling. Racing Beneteau Oceanis 37s was a new experience for all and roller furling, lazy jacks and cruising chutes are unusual on a race course! The Race Committee aspired to run 6 short races in Stokes Bay and despite a very light start, the building breeze co-operated and 6 short windward-leeward races were duly held.

May 24

Sigma 38 National Championships

RN team race "Royal Navy Project" in this hard-fought one-design regatta The Sigma 38 Class has undergone something of a renaissance over the past 3 years and with a new group of owners offers some of the closest one-design racing on the Solent. The sad demise of SULTAN’s Gauntlet of Tamar left the RN without a boat to race and instead a yacht was chartered.

May 23

RNSA Plymouth-Salcombe-Plymouth Race 2012 – Results

The race results for this race are tabulated at the link below.

May 22

COSMIC DANCER wins the Atlantic Cup

The Sweden 38 may have been the smallest and oldest yacht in the Atlantic Cup, and the only crew to be competing 2 handed, but there are times when "small is beautiful". With all but one of the other competing yachts in the 40-50 ft range, taking line honours was never a realistic aspiration, but when the final results were announced Clive Woodman was delighted to discover that Cosmic Dancer had won by over 11 and a half hours on corrected time.

May 21

Portsmouth Summer Regatta – 16 June 2012

Using the Big Buoys Challenge as the anchoring event, we plan to run dinghy sailing and windsurfing programmes in Portsmouth harbour and the Solent providing fun for all the family... and ending up at Hornet Sailing Club where there will be a Hog Roast and a chance for all the sailing disciplines to The annual Big Buoys Challenge is one of the most eagerly anticipated events in the RNSA sailing calendar.

May 20

Caitlin takes RYA torch afloat at Gybe club this Saturday

Saturday  19th   may,  2012

At Lee-on-Solent sailing club everyone fits in, you always have fun and you can always ask questions about sailing or the types of Dinghy we sail and they will be answered as best as possible. When it’s your first time on the water you can, if you want to, go out with a more experienced adult sailor and they will guide you as best they can.

Before each lesson a register will be taken for all those in attendance and then you will talk about the wind direction and the weather for the time you will be on the water so that you can use the information to help you