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Maidenhead Sailing Club offers a warm welcome to new members. Come and sail on our 51 acre lake with fine views over open countryside.  We offer sailing every week of the year with a full season of events for you to join in.  We are a family friendly club with a strong Youth and Junior section. Sail your own boat or hire one of the club's boats, we have over 24 to choose from to suit all abilities...

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Maidenhead Sailing Club’s Solo Open was once again held with brilliant sunshine but very light winds. The combination of the light winds, holidays and the new Southern area championships the day before meant only 4 visitors and 8 local boats lined up for the delayed first start.

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Blue Sky Blue Water

The sun shone and the wind stayed reasonable for the 16 Albacores that entered this annual ‘blue water’ event (no, it’s not an April Fool - the lake water really had been dyed blue).

In each of the three races three different boats were first to the windward mark however none of these could beat the overall winners Neville Herbert and Mark Fowler in their brand new wooden decked boat ‘Gran Turisimo’ and winning with a race to spare.

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With an brisk easterly wind measuring 2/4 in strength which was more than forecast, 25 boats lined up for the morning 30min short pursuit. The first leg was the whole length of the lake from mark "C" to mark "I". After a good beat the Miracle of James Gladwyn and children got around the first mark first followed by Barry Wicks (Solo), John Hirsh (Solo) and Ian Stone (Comet). The remainder of the course was a mixture of runs and reaches with 3 gybe marks.

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30 boats line up for the morning pursuit race with a sunny westerly force 2/3 breeze and a course that gave a beat the whole length of the lake, the two Comets of Ian Stone and Brian Welham lead off followed by the Solo's, Enterprises, laser's and Albacores by the end of the first lap Barry Wicks managed to catch and overtake the Comets, take the lead never to be caught.

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Turned out to be a nice bright day for February. The wind conditions south westerly force 3/4 gusting force 5 which presented all those who took part with some challenging sailing conditions.


A morning started off with a Short pursuit race followed by a handicap race. Race team B led by the efficient Barry Wicks, set a course of three beats, two runs and a reach, which tested everyone's ability, there were numerous capsizes during both races. about 15 started the first race but only 8 started the second.



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At the end of June, club members enjoyed a lovely tranquil evening overlooking the lake, basking in the early evening sun, sipping Pims and enjoying the buffet, while listening and dancing to the melodious Steel Band. A Great Evening. Many thanks to all who made this evening a success.

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Lorraine & Geoff. 

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Barry Wicks wins Maidenhead Solo Open 2010The second Thames Valley Open Meeting of 2010 was held at Maidenhead Sailing Club on Sunday 18th April 2010. The event was gifted a beautiful sunny spring day, an ideal opportunity to dispense with wetsuits and wear t-shirts and shorts. 14 boats entered the meeting which included 5 visiting boats. 3 races were scheduled, with 2 to count.

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