Brighton Sailing Club

109 - 111 Kings Rd. Arches,
Brighton,
East Sussex,
BN1 2FN
(100m east of West Pier)
Email us at info@brightonsc.org.uk

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19th-20th June: The Lesley Winter Regatta - sponsored by Caffyns. Some of the best sailing so far this year. The unpredictable northerly winds provided challenging sailing as the direction and strength varied from one minute to the next. Most crews took a swim at some point over the weekend but you might like to ask Jim how he acquired a 3rd sail while upside down ! Fleet racing was close and in the catamarans the lead boat changed several times in every race. At the end of Saturdays racing only a few points separated first and last positions. On Sunday evening Simon distributed £250 Musto vouchers donated by Caffyns to the winners. Results can be seen here The Lesley Winter Regatta is held in memoriam and all entry fees are donated to the Elimination of Leukaemia. This year we raised around £200. Many thanks for all those that did race duties and to those that provided lunch. For more exciting summer sailing watch the WEB site and "announce". Forthcoming events include: The Paddle Round the Pier Regatta - 3rd-4th July - with big prizes including a holiday. Details here The Bognor Raid - 10th-11th July. (watch the emails) See you on the water !
16th January : Tom (aka Ocenahippie) is off on his travels again. After numerous false starts and his 20th leaving do we believe he has finally gone. Follow his (mis)adventures here.
Friday 4th December 2009 - AGM. Minutes published here. Thanks to all who attended.
3-4th October 2009 - The 2009 Hobie 16 Nationals. BSC took 5 boats to the nationals - been there, got the T-Shirt. Toby got a 5th and Paul "Pevensey prostitute" Duncliffe came 3rd. Patrick won the video competition with his "West Pier Point" and wins £500 of vouchers. Watch it on the BSC playlist or YouTube. What a great weekend, 34knots of breeze on Saturday, fortunately spare parts were readily available, great party followed by more sailing on Sunday.BSC certainly made a splash in their team T-shirts. Pictures here .
Sunday 13 September - Blue Water Challenge to the Marina and back via the mile marker. It was wicked - F4-5 NE was forecast but we didn't believe them during the briefing at 10:30. But we did at the mile marker. Put your hands up all those that went swimming !!! Results here. Pictures to follow.
15-16/08/2009 - The Lesley Winter Regatta 2009 - Two Days of fabulous sailing! Thanks to everyone involved, we had a couple of excellent and very close racing days sailing. I think it will be a few days before the smiles (and stiffness) have worn off! We raised £225 for the Elimination of Leukaemia Fund. Many thanks to Chung, Matt Ray, Barry, Dave Statham, and Rhodri on the rescue boat, to Penny and Tom as OODs, Paul Tofts and Jenny as Timekeepers, with assistance from Rhodri and Veronique. Thanks also to Penny (Saturday) and Brian (Sunday) for the lovely lunches. Thanks to Karen and Aimi and Virginia for setting up the barbecue for Saturday night. Matt took some great video footage on Saturday and I understand this will be shortly available on the website. Thanks to everyone for sailing. Congratulations to Graham and Jane for winning and to Toby and Roger who came a very, very, very close 2nd all down to the final race. Congratulations to Roy who sailed 7 out of 8 races being the only monohull represented on Saturday for three of the races. Great to see so many people involved. Results are here Our thanks to Caffyns of Brighton for the fantastic sponsorship prizes.
1-2/08/2009 - The Bognor Raid 2009 - 26 miles there, 26 miles back. The best sail of the year. Read all about it here.
4-5th July 2009 For those of you that missed it you definitely missed out! Paddle video (watch here) The Paddle Round the Pier weekend was huge on Hove Lawns this year and BSC were definitely part of it due to Karen and John on land and Tom, Mark and Ali afloat - A big thanks guys. A great fun race was had in near perfect conditions right along the beach in front of the "Paddle Village". Prizes were dished out to the lucky winners and a few beers were consumed. Don't forget the Regatta on 18th & 19th July, the opportunities to enjoy our lovely club don't come much better. Cheers Brian BSC A cracking show. Where else could you pay good money to have five charming young lads come into your own club, rip the p*ss out you and leave you rolling in the gutter (or is that aisles?) If you haven't yet seen the guys and want to know more about them, you can visit their website here...
25th April 2009 - Back by popular demand! Enjoyed by so many people last year and so many this year. A cracking show. Where else could you pay good money to have five charming young lads come into your own club, rip the p*ss out you and leave you rolling in the gutter (or is that aisles?) If you haven't yet seen the guys and want to know more about them, you can visit their website here...
Spring 2009 - Gents refurbishment - It's done thanks to everone who contributed. Now let's get sailing !!!
12th december 2008 AGM - Minutes have been published here.
29th November 2008 - The Annual Dinner Dance 2008. BSC celebrated the end of their season in style recently with their Dinner Dance at the Old Ship Hotel. Black ties and posh frocks were the order of the day as a full house turned out for some great food and drink. The silverware was handed out to the worthy winners of series, regattas and one-off races, but even more exciting was the combined auction and raffle to raise funds for the local RNLI team in recognition of their dedication and bravery that any of us may need someday. Overall the club raised over £1300 on the night with over half of that being bid for a pair of holidays generously donated by Simon Morgan at WILDWIND. BSC would like to say an enormous thank you to WILDWIND and all their other sponsors, a full list of whom can be seen here...
8th November 2008 - Bonfire night accompanied by the Ginger Flowers. Another fantastic family event for the sailing club. The fireworks were spectacular and the band were rocking. If you missed the visual spectatcular of our bonfire and fireworks set in front of the surf generated by the F8 winds with the moonlight shinning on the surf - well you missed it. A big thanks to all who organised food, fireworks, bar staff, collected money etc.
4-5th October 2008 - The Hobie Nationals. BSC boys Tobie (Hot shot) Luff and Mark (Drinking crew) Aussie went down to Poole for the Hobie 16 Nationals. I don't know if you remember the weather on the beach but it was blowing 30-40Knts, the kind of weather Scottish Trawler men say "Och nooo, I'm for anoother pint". (more to follow when I have all the facts/dirt)
21st September 2008 - The Blue Water Challennge. Out to the mile marker, down to the Marina and back in time for lashings of ginger beer or maybe a Budvar!!
26th July 2008 - For those of you who didn't manage to make it to the comedy night on Saturday you missed a stonker! "The Noise Next Door" are a great bunch of five young men who turned out a hilarious evening of improvised comedy at Brighton Sailing Club. With some very random suggestions from the audience and a little assistance from Mike Miller and his torch the full house raised the roof with laughter on what was undoubtedly one of the best social nights we've had at BSC. Brian, Commodore BSC.
12-13/07/2008 - The Bognor Raid 2008 - 26 miles there, 26 miles back. The best sail of the year. Read all about it here... and watch the videos here...
28-29/06/2008 The 2008 Lesley Winter Regatta produced exhilarating sailing and close competition. With the wind blowing SW F5-6 all weekend there were some big waves, awesome boat speeds and of course some spectacular capsizes. A BBQ followed by the Ginger Flowers playing their hearts out on Saturday night made the two days of sailing an absolutely perfect weekend. Results can found here... A big thank you to all involved in the organisation of the social events and the sailing. The regatta raised around £200 for the Elimination of Leukaemia fund . Thanks to everyone for the generous donations. Pictures can be found here...
2008/06/01 - Well, the rain may have only just stopped and the sun may not have been shining but the Sunday picnic sail was great fun. We've had picnic sails before but the difference here was an emphasis on getting the kids on the water. To that effect, with 5 cats and 4 monos, we set off for Morocco's beach with about 10 children, most of whom had a go at helming and trapezing. The boats pulled quite a crowd on the Hove beach while we had lunch with other members who came down to meet us. We arrived back at BSC around 15:00 just as the sun came out to finish off a lovely Sunday. Feedback from my daughter, a rare thing from a teenager, bordered on enthusiasm, an even rarer thing! Combine this with the fact that we kept the kids off their Nintendo's for a few hours we should consider the day quite a success !! Let's do that again ! (pics here)...
19/5/2008 - Hove Lagoon Watersports are offering Brighton Sailing Club members 10% discount on all childrens' course. Click here for more information.
19/2/2007 Where is Tom? BSC's own OceanHippie has made it to St. Lucia, passed through the Panama Canal, crossed the Pacific and was last heard to be in Australia. Latest news here...

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