Author Archives: Hilary Talbot
Safety Refresher Day
It was a bright, breezy start to the Powerboat Refresher Day and twenty two PB2 qualified members turned up to the briefing hoping for a reminder about how the club RIBs work, and a little oil for rusty confidence, but were treated to an afternoon of so much more. We split into two groups; one […]
New Partnership with Gill
Grafham Water Sailing Club has announced an innovative new partnership with marine technical apparel brand Gill. The new partnership will see Gill acting as club sponsor enabling new investments in events, equipment and infrastructure. The collaboration includes event sponsorship, research and development of new products and joint marketing initiatives to raise awareness of water sports […]
Training School News
Ten sailing and powerboat instructors joined Chief Instructor Matt French and Chief Instructor (Powerboating) Mark Boyes for the pre-season Instructor session on a beautiful spring Saturday. This included four Dinghy Instructors who got their tickets last October and two Assistant Instructors who took the course only two weeks ago. They joined several experienced Dinghy and […]
Gill Sprint 15 Winter TT
A bright day and moderate breeze greeted the 16 boats competing for the Chris Black memorial trophy in the Gill Sprint 15 Winter TT. With the southerly wind forecast to swing to the East, Race Officer Nigel Denchfield, anchored the committee boat close to the Northern shore to set the Sprint 15 square course alongside […]
Working Party News
Thank you to everyone who came to the grounds working party on 1st March; it was a great turnout of excellent volunteers! We cleared a huge bramble from the berths by Slipway 1, uncovering a few good-sized tree trunks that will need grinding out by our tree surgeon. We also recovered an abandoned boat out from the hedge where it had been […]
The Construction of Grafham Water
Talk at Buckden Library On Wednesday 23rd March, starting at 2pm, Buckden library is hosting what should prove to be a fascinating talk about the creation of our favourite sailing lake! Using an extensive set of photos, Local History Society member, Richard Storey, will look at the reasons why Grafham Water was made, how it […]
29er Winter Championship
Under the orange flag – the 29er Winters Although the weather forecast was not encouraging with gales forecast for Saturday and tricky light winds for Sunday, the Class Association was keen to go ahead. So three months of planning, emails, WhatsApp and phone calls were not wasted and the team swung into action… well sort […]
New Year Regatta 2022
We kicked off 2022 in fine style with the New Year Regatta. Despite a forecast that was challenging, 42 boats took to the water and experienced mean winds of 15-18 kts, on top of which the occasional gust in the low 20s moved through. The mean axis stayed on 220 degrees all day, and the […]
Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022
After 20 Open Meetings and 3 Championships, the 2021 open meeting season at Grafham Water SC is finally over. The season started shortly after lockdown finished in April with the Youth Regatta and Optimist Easter Egg and finished with the 420 End of Seasons in November. 1,500 boats have visited the club in this […]
RYA Sail Measurer Course
The RYA are running a sail measurer course for the Eastern region at GWSC on Saturday 18th December. The course will start at 9:30 and will last about 6 hours. The cost of this course is £35.00 and you must be an RYA member to secure the qualification at the end. We have 12 spaces on this […]