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Catamaran Open 2019
The 2019 Grafham Cat Open took place over the weekend of 19th & 20th of October. For once the weather gods supplied us with a lovely bright day with a nice force 3-4 from the SW on the Saturday and slightly less wind on the Sunday but from a northerly direction which made the temperature […]
RS Inland Championships 2019
Photo © Tim Olin www.olinphoto.co.uk On Saturday 5th October Grafham Water Sailing Club welcomed 216 RS sailors for the very successful RS200, RS400 and RS800 Harken Inland Championships. Although racing wasn’t due to start until 1pm, many England rugby fans arrived by 8:45 to watch the England-Argentina world cup match. This was shown in both the cafe […]
Wednesday Evening Blog
Welcome to the 2019 Wednesday Evening Series. Joe’s blog is back! Final Series Results Best sailor new to the series D-Zero 110 Joel Walker Overall 1st Slow Single D-Zero 110 Joel Walker 2nd Slow Single Phantom 1457 Dan Wigmore 3rd Slow Single D-Zero 71 Neil Washington Fast 1st RS500 659 Peter Curtis James Curtis 2nd […]
Regatta Blog
Click for Full Results The 2019 Summer Bank Holiday Regatta has been notable for light winds and summer heat. 23 boats ranging from Spitfires through to an RS Tera raced the two Saturday afternoon ‘Sociable’ races. Richard Major and John Aston in Lasers took the top two places. Several of the regular Sociable Saturday (‘cake […]
Summer Camp Blog
Friday 9th August The last day dawned pretty windy, with everyone looking forward to the Regatta with some trepidation. After the briefing and getting the boats ready, the sailors set sail in nine boats. The winners managed three laps and all finished the race in very challenging conditions. 1st Josh, Lloyd and Owen […]
Grafham Sailors’ Success
Grafham sailors have been celebrating success around the country this summer. Cat Sailors at Marconi Well done to the Grafham Cat Fleet who won the team trophy at the East Coast Piers Race at Marconi SC on 6th and 7th July . RS600/Solo Success for Dave Goudie Following his win last year in the 2018 RS600 […]
Taster Day 6th July
Try sailing at Grafham Water Sailing Club on Saturday 6 July. Come along between 1030 and 1530 and we can offer you a great introduction to sailing or windsurfing. Qualified instructors and other experienced sailors will be there to help you. Adults and children (over eight) welcome. Cost is £10 per person. We have a […]
Update to Safety Flags
We have made some changes to the flag system, to reflect our experience since the new system was introduced in 2019. The yellow/red flag now signifies that the water is closed for sailing but with one or more exceptions. The exceptions will be displayed in the Cafe on the monitor or on a map. Flying […]
Cambs Youth League
The first event in the 2019 Cambridgeshire Youth League took place at Grafham on Saturday 1st June. In fact it should have been the second event but bad weather caused the first, at Cam SC to be postponed and that is now scheduled for Saturday 8th June. 35 young sailors from Grafham, Cam, Hunts and […]