Welcome 2026 Season
Dear Fellow Mariners, After a long winter ashore, I am absolutely delighted to welcome you to the 2026 sailing season. There is nothing quite like the beginning of the season to remind you of the joys of being on the…
Category Sailing
Rally to Gins Farm, Beaulieu River, 6-7/9/25
The rally, as always, had various starting points… A welcome return to Gins Farm was enjoyed by one and all. With a walking jolly up to Buckler’s Hard, another of our regular rally destinations, being appreciated by some members, checking…
Short weekend rally – At Anchor 15/17 August 2025
The Rally seemed to start early for us, we had a rib to pick up and several jobs to do, so we all meet early on Friday morning. With the jobs completed, Babino on the pontoon at Marchwood and a…
Bambino in the Round The Island Race
The five members of the club who decided to enter the Round the Island Race in 2025 each had their own reasons for wanting to participate. For Danny, it was “the spectacle” of the race itself. For Matthew, it was…
Cowes Rally
The 2024 rally season is off to a very successful start! This weekend, six boats and 21 crew took part in the Cowes Shakedown Rally to Cowes Yacht Club. It was great sailing with imaginative entertainment in the…
Petal navigating through Caledonian Canal
Petal are sailing through Caledonian Canal and now are at top of the Loch Lochy right where Laggan Locks are according to AIS. As Gary said “60 miles 32 meter climb 29 locks 11 swing bridges. Did 2 bridges and…
Skipper Garry Mackey
Skipper Spotlight in Fifteen Boat – MG 345 “Petal” Garry Mackey (right) and John Eversfield (left) 1. What was your first experience of sailing and when? Regatta at school. Went to watch someone needed a crew they said…
Petal reaches Scotland
Yesterday, 18th June, we sailed from Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland to Islay in Scotland. As you can see the tides are a quite strong we were doing 10 knots in 5 knots of wind
Petal in Falmouth
In the last few days Petal went from Salcombe towards Polperro which looks like they did not enter at last minute and went to Fowey instead. And today in the morning we seen good progress being made to Falmouth. A…
Petal in Salcombe and online AIS tips
A few members have noticed that the location of Petal was not updated on Vesselfinder website and also on club website on the right which uses the same service. The reason being is what AIS actually is and how the…