Reading Sailing Club

Reading Sailing Club

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Notices:

  • A key to the club house is available from Jerry Cresswell if you would like one. £15 deposit. See him at the club or contact via email bosun@readingsc.org.uk.
  • Power boat users training session will be run by Peter Rose probably Sunday afternoons, dates to be confirmed. There will be a form on the club notice board please fill in your name if you would like a place.

Forthcoming events:

  • Next Pink Fleet -11th September - it's a riot.
  • Camp and Sail (Al Italiano) Afternoon of 11th September. - This will be a fun event with activities on the water, treasure hunts etc followed by a meal, drinks, campfire and camping. The food theme is Italian, with some wine. A small contribution will be needed to cover the costs: £3 per meal. - Ciao!
  • Volunteers to help with games & campfire setup welcome, also guitar players or budding musicians for campfire songs.
  • Working Party: 1st Saturday of the month, this coming weekend, 4th September, see Dave Isaacs if you want to help, or just turn up with a pair of heavy gloves.

Recent news:

  • Congratulations to Jan Hearn and Tony White, who have achieved RYA Power Boat Level 2 - trained by our in house Power boat Instructor Ken...well done guys ....2 very hot days on the water!!!"
  • Pink Fleet BBQ report Wow, what a day we had! It was fantastic to have Ken with us, in charge and organising a great 45 min race / drift in light airs....with a briefing on the deck, guns and flags as well. There were 17 boats on the water with 26 of us in them.....we jostled and juggled, got pushed and encouraged but it was Andy in a club Laser who won the race. Well done Andy, don't forget to keep it polished...! Kris was disqualified for standing up and of course Monica was disqualified.....what for this time? Going too fast....!! she was lapping some of us. While we were on the water, Mark, Barbara, Delia and their helpers, were hard at it getting the BBQ and all the salads ready for when we came in...there were 40 of us having lunch and what a feast we had with loads of booze as well. Then suddenly Stig - no one knew who it really was... - appeared and paddled a club Laser to the distance mark (red stripey pole) and back, setting a time of 2.36mins to beat. We had a lot a very wet fun trying to beat his time.....Adrian definitely needs some practice paddling a Laser before he buys one...well it was Katie and Andrew who won the bottle of champagne..their Mum Sarah was very pleased...!!

    While we were vegging out, Steve did a bit of teaching on how to rescue capsized boats - it was very interesting and a bit scarey.... But the best bit was going out onto the water again and putting it into practice - capsizing in the rain with no wind....the water was so warm...we all had a great day and thank you to everyone who organised it,helped get everything ready and did all the clearing up.

    Roll on the next Pink Day, Saturday 11th September, for, by popular demand, more racing fun. This event coincides with our Camp and Sail weekend.

  • Club Open Day saw a continuous stream of visitors looking around, having 'taster sails' and 5 new members writing their cheques on the spot to be part of RSC!! All this despite the rather dreary weather.....well done everyone who helped make the day such a success.

  • Model Yacht Open Meeting 16th October 2010. Watch it on Youtube. The model yacht section uses International One Metre Class (IOM) boats.

  • Pirates Club
  • Pirates news 2nd September.......Wow, Pirates Club ended for this year with 15 youngsters on the water having fun under the supervision of Gary and Carole - ball collection and racing and then lots of sweetie goodies with our hot chocolate at the end. - can't wait until next year, meanwhile there's always pink days and weekends. A big thank you to everyone who has helped out with Pirates since it started in April.



  • Congratulations to Dave Portus who completed his RYA Assistant Instructor training and to Simon Bray, Jon Mckenzie and Phil Markham who achieved RYA Level 2 Power Boat - well done boys and many thanks to both Ken & Steve and also Charles from the RYA for all their hard work.

  • Congratulations to Ken Seymour

    aka Pink Fleet 'Evil Games Master' for successfully completing his power boat instructors course.
    Ken is now a powerboat instructor, able to teach level 2 courses,making Reading Sailing Club an RYA power boat training centre as well an RYA Sail Training Centre.
    Well done Ken!!


Launch of new club training boat

During April Pink Fleet day; Steve and Dave launch the club’s new training boat, a red hulled Sport 14 for ‘lake trials’.