Worst places to sail

This lot make Shearwater seem lovely! Just an incredibly shifty puddle in nice looking valley surrounded by pine trees and the only lake I know where you can put out 4 marks in small square and have all their flags flying in different directions so the sailing can be poor.
We've been flying the spinnaker running down the lake only to have another boat also flying their kite coming directly towards us running up the lake! We met in the middle (didn't bother to argue who was windward boat!) both dropped the kites and each beat on away in opposite directions.
Winds are usually light to non-existent so being stationary is quite common when racing and water quality depends on what bait is in favour with the fishermen - dog food must be the worst and they've also been known to use sailors and their boats as catapult targets.
The club hut is a wooden shed which, when bought second hand in 1961, was expected to last only ten years - the ladies facilities are tiny and the gents is just awful and there's no hot water in the sinks. The landlord only gives a short lease so no grants are available for improvement.
But the members are friendly and it's a good club to travel away from and it's only 5 minutes from home with no local alternative so we live with its failings.

Originally posted by Nipper Agree about Hayling.   Haven't been there for a good few years now, but used to go regularly in the 1980's & 90's for events.   - Always met by a miserable man at the entrance who told you all the things you were not allowed to do as you were only a visitor.

Ah Royal Corinthian- puked up there several times, jumped off the balcony at high tide in my pants and tbh, was served beer and alcopops with gusto courtesy of a Fake ID... Not as snotty-yotty as you guys are making out. Not in Burnham Week anyway.

I'm guessing that they haven't built another bridge or a tunnel or something to improve the access though in the last two years?

You just don't get the crowds on Hayling that you did 20-30 years ago. In the 1980s you could count on it taking 30-60 minutes to get off the island any sunny summer weekend afternoon. It's rare to experience that any more. I'm a regular visitor to Hayling and a bit of slow-moving traffic in the last couple of miles to the bridge is the worst I've experienced in the last 5 years.