Maidenhead Sailing Club held its 2008 Optimist Open on Saturday 24th May. The Open attracted entries from as far afield as Norfolk. With so many competitors and their families expected, Maidenhead Sailing Club members rallied round to organise breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea for more than a hundred and fifty people.

Even in you have never been in a dinghy before, we can teach you to sail at Maidenhead Sailing Club.  Our RYA Level 1 and Level 2 courses are suitable for those without any sailing experience, or those who have perhaps done some sailing but want a refresher course or to get their RYA qualifications.  RYA certificates are recognized around the world and will allow you to hire a sailing dinghy whilst on holiday perhaps.

Maidenhead sailing club hosted the 2nd open meeting in the Solo Thames Valley Series on Saturday 19th April. 10 visitors and 6 home boats took part.

Weather conditions were far improved on those experienced in the first Thames valley open meeting at Littleton, where 2 inches of snow fell all over the South East of England. At Maidenhead, we had grey skies, 10 degrees and variable and shifting winds between 10mph and 16 mph.

This set the stage for some very close racing with each race being won by a different helm.

The Maidenhead SC kicked off the Albacore Open meeting season with a training session on Saturday 12th April and the Open meeting racing on Sunday 13th. 20 boats took part from all over the country.

The Spring 2008 Calendar is now available for download here and in the downloads section. 

The Spring 2008 Signal Newsletter is now available for download in the downloads section.  The documents is formated for printing on A4 paper to make an A5 booklet.

Printed copies will be sent to members shortly.

The Thursday evening socials continue with a Junior evening on the 27th March where our Junior sailors will be sharing their experiences this season.

On Thursday 2rd April there will be a talk on the exhilarating 12 foot skiffs, with a chance to examine one in the car park and view films of races around the world.

Thursday night racing then starts on Thursday 10th April.

The first Maidenhead Open Meeting of the 2008 season was held on Easter Saturday.

Weather conditions were marginal with force 5, gusty winds throughout the day. This made sailing difficult enough, but there were three or four occasions where squalls of driving sleet and force 6 gusts made the racing very exciting - some would say scary!

The Christmas pursuit series was won by Roger Harford.  The series was sailed in very light conditions for all of the three races.  The sailing was very close, with any one of  four boats able to take the series with a win in the last race. These four were battling to the end, and finished within a few yeards of each other as the finish hooter sounded.

Roger managed to get the best out of the conditions in his Solo, scoring two firsts to take the series.  Janet and John Woffinden were second in their new Albacore and Alan Dibble took third place in a Solo.

Full results here...

The Winter 07/08  Junior Training Series re-starts on Saturday 19th January.   All Junior members are welcome, as are their parents to assist with running the sessions.

Dates for this series:

19th Jan
2nd Feb
16th Feb
1st Mar
15th Mar
29th Mar