Calling all juniors sailors (under 15 on 7 July 2019) - the first of the Two Rivers Junior Series event will be taking place at the end of June.  You can find all the details and entry forms HERE

Exe Regatta 2019 - results 

Some excellent photograhs taken over the Regatta weekend by Garnett Showell are now up on the Regatta website - click here.  Results for the Regatta races can be found at Results.

SYC at the Salcombe Whitsun open meeting

Three SYC 400’s, (Figgy and Barney in 411, Matt and Trisha in 1159, James and Jonathan in 1287) put in a good representation from the club for the three day event over the May bank holiday. The forecast looked good with that rare combo of Wind and Sun and with 15 boats entered the battle commenced! Full report by Jonathan Carr at the link below the image. 

Read SYC at the Salcombe Whitsun open meeting for more details.

SYC always welcomes new members and you don’t necessarily need to already have - or even buy - your own boat.

For more experienced sailors, the club maintains a small, varied fleet of dinghies that can be hired by members at very reasonable rates.

For those perhaps a little less experienced or if you enjoy the role of tactician, crews for double-handed dinghies are always in demand. Experience is useful of course but is by no means essential, as existing members are always happy to train up new crews.

Please do make contact - we’d love to welcome you to our friendly club.

This new system is intended to make record keeping of berth usage easier for the Club Berth Marshal, Robin Charles.

Previously paper records got lost, destroyed or in some cases were illegible. 

By using this system a simple ID card can be photographed with date and time stamp and the files saved, edited and kept safe.

What a great day we had for this year's Laser open meeting, held on 1st September: grey skies clearing to beautiful blue, with a wind, force 2-3, blowing almost straight up the estuary from the south-southeast, and wonderfully warm. The tide was rising towards its peak as the first race got under way, but was well and truly ebbing by the end of the final race.

Starcross Yacht Club has signed up to the RYA Green Blue scheme which encourages water sport clubs to protect their environment and therefore enjoy more their chosen water sport area.
Eight years ago SYC, partially funded by the RYA, installed a rainwater harvesting unit which stores 3000 litres of rain water runoff from the boat shed roof and feeds it through UV germicidal filters to the flushing toilets. Last year 29 cubic metres of rainwater was supplied to the toilets.
During the galley refurbishment, water heating controllers were installed which provide hot water when required during galley service and then shut down, reducing power wastage.
Investigating other potential energy saving possibilities, we identified the oil-fired changing room heating as a suitable candidate. Previously it has operated 3 times a day on a 7 day time clock, consuming approximately 32 litres a week and providing hit-and-miss heating for Sunday winter racing.
As of now the changing room heating is operated on a demand-only basis.

Starcross Yacht Club was host to home and visiting Merlin Rocket sailors on the weekend of the 21/22 April, 2018 with a total of 26 boats entering. Mixed weather with light winds on Saturday and Sunday meant there was close racing throughout.

Thanks to all the members who worked behind the scenes to make this happen, and especially to the galley team for their excellent catering.

Results can be found here.

Our thanks to Garnett Showell for an excellent album of on-the-water photographs of this event.