You may recently have read of the incredible exploits of Hilary Lister. Hilary is a quadriplegic and she sails an adapted Artemis 20 with a sip and puff system that uses three straws which enable her to control all the systems on board. Not content with sailing round Britain in 2009, she has now sailed across the Indian ocean…
The first ever safety digest for leisure boaters has been published by the RYA. The RYA Safety Advisory Notice is a simple digest of critical safety issues and is the first safety digest to be compiled solely for the leisure boater. It will be reviewed annually but where safety concerns are more immediate the RYA will issue periodic Safety…
Many of you will probably already have received Windward through your letter boxes, but of you’d prefer to read it on-screen, then it is available on the website. Follow the link below to download it: Windward – January 2014 Why not have a look as well at the Windward archive on the website? We have all the copies stretching…
It may be winter and a limited amount of sailing, but there is still loads going on at the club. Keep an eye on Signals and the website calendar for upcoming events. For example, Spring 2014 sees: Valentine’s Supper Small Boat, High Latitudes – talk An evening with Chopper Harris All these events are taking place at the club…
As a result of the AGM in December, the new TSC committee for 2013/14 has been elected. To help you get to know the new committee and recognise them around the dinghy park and on the water, a ‘rogues gallery‘ has been created for the website. You can see them all below. Contact details are available for them on…
It’s that time already … Time to start planning for next year’s sailing. To help you with the process, the 2014 tide tables are available with the website. They are available in the usual place: Tide Tables 2014
From Lisa Graves I am trying to trace the history of our Norwegian built 15ft grp faering style gaff rigged day boat which was kept at Tollesbury until about two years ago. There are some photos below. She was sold by Woodrolfe Brokerage, who remember the boat well but do not know who owned her. I have managed to…
Have you ever wanted to make your own sloe gin and didn’t know how? No idea what a sloe looks like? Well, now’s your chance. We will be holding a guided sloe walk to show you what sloes are and some of the places you can find them around Tollesbury. Follow the link below for full details of the…
Sunday 8th Sept – tea and cake day at Tollesbury – and 2 TSC boats arrive at EYC’s superb new club house for round 9 of the GP 14 travellers series. Built on stilts right on the waterfront the conditions looked idyllic from the balcony at both ends of the day but what we experienced as the tide and…
We woke up to the sun shining and set off early to Mersea, after much deliberation we decided to go the port way, a mistake as the wind was very light and changeable. Harriet Mays had kindly agreed to set off with us to help us across the start line and we were lucky to have George Barber and…
UPDATE 30/09/2022 Hi everyone, we have decided that tomorrow’s…
Tollesbury Sailing Club 2021 Smacks and Classics Race,…
