Cruising at The Royal Southern Yacht Club
Not every sailor wants the cut and thrust of competitive racing and those looking for a more relaxed time afloat gravitate towards the Cruising Division, which offers many entertaining activities. Mid-week rallies provide a perfect interlude in a busy week and the ports and harbours of the Solent are regular venues. Lymington, Yarmouth, Newtown and Beaulieu being particularly popular whilst Cowes, Bembridge and Wootton Creek all welcome the fleet back on a regular basis.
Not that racing is entirely ignored. More competitive cruising crews can be found racing on handicap in the Solent, enjoying the more cerebral challenges of the pursuit race and venturing further afield. Recent years have seen Royal Southern yachts racing to the West Country, Channel Islands and France. Longer cruises, often in company with boats from the Motorboat Division, have included rallies to Dunkirk, Paris, Rotterdam and Stockholm, whilst the motorboat flotilla has ventured to Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, the Golfe de Morbihan and the Channel coasts of Brittany and Normandy.
Members of the Cruising Division are not averse to going much further afield, often bareboat chartering to cruise in company from the Pacific north-west of the USA and Canada to the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.
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Rally to Cowes Thursday 30th / Friday 31st May - To visit the Cowes Classic Boat Museum
Rally to Cowes Thursday 30th / Friday 31st May - To visit the Cowes Classic Boat Museum
 
This rally replaces the planned April Rally to Cowes, and we will combine it with a visit to the Cowes Maritime Museum in East Cowes, see www.classicboatmuseum.org . Berths have been reserved at Shepards Wharf Marina, and we will have...
13 May 2013  Read More.
Cruiser Rally to Wicormarine 11th / 12th June
Cruiser Rally to Wicormarine 11th / 12th June
 
High Water Portsmouth 13.24 Organiser: Ann Arscott email annarscott2@talktalk.net  will take bookings up to June 4th. Bryan Hughes bryan@bfhughes.demon.co.uk mobile 07831851900 will be organise...
13 May 2013  Read More.
The Royal Southern visits Windsor Castle and the Savill Garden
The Royal Southern visits Windsor Castle and the Savill Garden
 
Thursday 9th May saw our third attempt to do this visit, previous attempts having been thwarted by royal activities which closed the Castle. Clearly it was an auspicious day, as the 29 seater coach we had booked had metamorphosed into a very luxur...
13 May 2013  Read More.
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