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Poll Question: How far do you regularly travel to your sailing club of choice?
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55 [51.40%]
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16 [14.95%]
9 [8.41%]
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    Posted: 08 Feb 11 at 3:29pm
2 miles for me. Would be closer but the clubhouse is the far side of the reservoir! I sail at Bristol Corinthian. Chew Valley is about 5 miles the other side of the Mendips - so 2 successful clubs very close together.
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Member of 2 clubs both about 25 miles & 30 minutes away both norfolk broads but differant water to suit differant boats.
Pass 1 council run club 10 miles, 2 river club clubs 12 & 17 miles not open water so not suitable.
Free Sea lunching 25 to 30 miles away for those days when you just need too.
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Just left a club that was walkable from home, nice easy launching, nice people but not the fleet racing I want.  Now have to drive about 20/25 minutes to get to club but has a much more active laser fleet.
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6 miles for me - nearest club
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22 miles for me. Reason being it is the only club I really like in the local area. Have also been a member there for a lot of years and have a lot of friends there.
  
I don't go past any other clubs but there are other clubs closer (Lakeside SC in Peterborough about 9 miles) and Rutland (about 18-20 miles) and a couple of river clubs in the other direction.
 
Lakeside looks like a tiny club and is very cliquey (I popped in there one day and was made to feel very unwelcome as I was an outsider) and they don't have a very active racing scene. Rutland is a nice piece of water but just too damn expensive for the amount of sailing I do. I would want something much bigger and faster if I went there!
 
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Originally posted by timg

...surely not a real Pico?

I Luv W is actualy twice past Pico National Champion... Just because you have the ability to build amd sail the fastest and most sophisticated boats in the world doesn't mean its the only thing you do...
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 I would vote twice. I'm about a mile and a half from my home club on the banks of the famous River Mersey. 
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But for summer do 125 miles to SCYC in Abersoch...............some even travel further from the Midlands to there.
Better a crap day in Abersoch than any day at work.
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I go 60 miles, because i live in central london and thats how far it is to whitstable!
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Hmm, ten minutes but my club is so exasperatingly bad that I've been traveling 2 hours to a selection of others... Seem to be polar opposite to Steve411 and it's the same place!
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Live in Southampton, sail at Hayling Island so about 35miles. (about 40-45mins)

I did leave for 3 years to join Weston (about 12miles) as i thought the hassle of driving to hayling was putting me off sailing but after a year it became apparent that it was sailing that was putting me off so i took a break for a couple of years. When i started up again last year i went back to Hayling for all the very blindingly obvious reasons (those changing rooms with underfloor heating, that bar, the pure joy of sitting having a fried breakfast watching the sun glint off Chichester Cathedral, the safe launching, good rescue boat coverage, strong fleets, friendly people, c'mon it's Hayling, it's about as good as it gets apart from SCYC during dinghy week). obviously i pass a whole heap of clubs to get there but none of them come close to HISC, you can't beat a post race drink on the balcony on a wednesday watching the sun set over the marina.


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