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Gybe Talk February 12th Windsurfing, Raceboarding and Wing Foiling Introduction
Windsurfing , Raceboarding & Wing Foiling Introduction Pete, Donald and Eric will be explaining these exciting sports and how you can learn them at Budworth. Why we enjoy the fastest growing wind sport on the planet 'Wing Foiling'. Discover how much fun it is for all ages and abilities it is as exhilarating for teenagers as it is for 70 year olds! Hear
Published 13:11 on 8 Feb 2025
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Staying Alive - First Aid Course
Last weekend 11 Budworth members successfully completed an RYA First Aid Course. The course was excellently delivered by Adam Savage with lots of time to practice CPR (30 and 2 to the rhythm of Staying Alive!) among other things. This is an important course for the club to ensure our instructors, coaches and volunteers have the necessary First Aid skills should the need arise.
Published 16:56 on 6 Feb 2025
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Gybe Talking - A Boat in a Bottle Talk
This year's Gybe Talking Series continued on Wednesday with an excellent talk from John Greenwood (former Masters Finn World Champion - twice) on sail settings and how to ensure they work optimally on our dinghies. John shared his knowledge and experience in a practical and engaging way ensuring everyone of the 50 odd attendees had something to think about and put into practice for the new season. We heard about vacuums, attacking and defending, polishing
Published 16:37 on 6 Feb 2025
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Prize giving & Commodore's buffet 2024 - 16th November
This is a club must do event, always a fantastic evening, a chance to join this years winners in receiving their awards, enjoy the banter, meet up with sailing buddies, friends and family the evening includes a free buffet which is always a treat. Pre booking not required, participation a must!
Published 10:26 on 3 Nov 2024
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AGM 2024 - Wednesday 6th November
The Annual General Meeting of Budworth Sailing Club will be held on Wednesday 6th November, 2024, at 7.00pm in the Clubhouse. All members welcome. This is your chance to have your say. The evening including presentations by key officers of the club and news of some exciting developments. There will also be the opportunity to sign up for your preferred dates for the 2025 duty rota. We look forward to seeing you at the
Published 10:23 on 3 Nov 2024
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Solo Open 2024
Our Solo Open meeting was held on the 5 th October this year in bright sunny conditions with a respectable force 3 south easterly breeze with strong gusts in excess of 20 knots forecast. We were pleased to host four travellers from across the North plus a keen home team of ten club Solos (14 in total) This was the penultimate Northern Series Solo Open in the 2024 season. The club was looking
Published 08:55 on 13 Oct 2024
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Snipes Class at the Budworth Sailing Club Snipe Open for the SCIRA NW Championship 2024
Conditions 10-15 knots of shifty breeze most of the weekend. Gusty and shifting lake conditions made for racing where strategy and tactics were key to getting ahead so avoiding being slowed by traffic. In this report there is some personal perspective from Neil Martin (3 rd helm overall) Race 1 -Jenny not 100%, but happy to have her new wetsuit as it's windy, boat set up with the flattest sails ever to cope
Published 08:50 on 13 Oct 2024
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Budworth Success at the West Lancs 24 Hour Race
Budworth entered three teams at the iconic 24 hour race that was back in the racing calendar after a five year absence. The Budworth A team, consisting of past and present Budworth members and captained by Russell Cormack, won the event pipping the South Staffs A team with only 5 seconds separating the two teams on the water. Crucially South Staffs had to add a five minute penalty to their time, leaving the Budworth A
Published 07:32 on 30 Sep 2024
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Budworth GP14 Open - Race report 2024
Budworth SC Northern Bell GP14 Open Sunday 2 nd June 2024 Race Report The night before an Open even tends to be a quiet affair, not at Budworth! We played host to an evening with Criag Mitchell who is an Umpire in the Sail GP series and we had 40 members and guests from the Open. Whilst Craig was getting ready for the Canadian event
Published 21:02 on 9 Jun 2024
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RNLI Challenge 2024
Next Sundays racing (16th Jun 2024) will be an exciting special event! Instead of the usual three fleet races we will be hosting two 1.5 hour pursuit races! If you haven't pursuit raced before then we encourage you to come and give it a go. Pursuit racing is a format not often used at Budworth and is fantastic fun, whether you get the biggest headstart in a Topper or are chasing the fleet
Published 19:50 on 5 Jun 2024
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Commodore's weekend and Pirate Day - book now
It's that wonderful, sunny time of year again and with that brings our annual Commodore's weekend! It's a fun filled weekend: On Saturday we will enjoy the Pirates Day and the BBQ which are both pre-bookable ticket events. Booking is now live online (see the link below) Pirates Day is £5 including lunch deal for those taking part (children need to be 8yrs or over) it's enormous fun for the kids
Published 11:13 on 4 Jun 2024
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GP14 Open
Entries now open for the Budworth Northern Bell GP14 open. Click here to go to Entry page Budworth GP14 fleet is proud to play host again for this years event on Sunday 2nd June. First race starts at 11.25am and the galley will be on hand during to the day providing all with delicious food and drink to keep all the competitors fuelled and ready for action. Why not camp
Published 21:55 on 12 May 2024