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    Posted: 14 Apr 06 at 12:09pm

Thanks for the replies guys, lots of clubs to check out.

One thing that concerns me with a few of them is the size of the sailing area. Once a boat like a 14 really gets going downwind you get through water like nobodys business and it really is a pain to sail somehwere small and not anywhere as much fun as it could be :(

The other problem is getting crew. If I keep her at a club with few high performance boats the chances of getting a crew for a boat like a 14 might be small and I'd end up selling her anyway

It might be a while until my sister moves from Portsmouth and I can have the 14 up there anway, so I have some time to think about it. Despite the boat being old (gbr1333) I'm quite attached to her, but maybe an RS600 or something might be a better option since they are single handed, cheap and a bit slower!
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There's always Blackpool Light Craft Club, opposite the Pleasure Beach. Small club, they mainly sail Cats. No shelter, you launch off the beach into the wind and the waves. But once you're out, I imagine you couldn't get a more dramatic expanse of water anywhere in the NW!!! (In the hayday of the two clubs, we used to have an annual club challenge race from Ribble CC to BLCC, often a screaming reach for 10 miles along the coast .)

I've a good mate there, so you could probably visit for a trial sail, and if you're short of a crew .....



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Mark

Before moving to Pompey I lived in Blackpool & did all the RYA Northwest Traveller series' etc so I got to know all the clubs very well. Your best option is Leigh & Lowton (inland) or Blackpool & Fleetwood (tidal). Leigh has always been well known for it's high performance fleet with a very good sailing area. B&F (where I was a member for several years) has a very good & interesting sailing area, however their fleets usually consist of mainly lasers & Dart 18's. Both are very easy to get to so basically it's depends whether you want tidal or inland really.

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Originally posted by charlie1019

Having been a member at several NW clubs and been to opens at most I would say you have two options:

1. Keep the 14 and sail at Ullswater (along with 49ers etc..)

2. Join Leigh and Lowton, sell the 14 and buy something like a rs400. While I'm not an rs400 fan, Leigh is too small and shifty to sail anything faster than either a 400 or fireball.

While there are other clubs around you these two would be your best options: Ullswater if you want to keep the 14; Leigh if you don't mind sailing something slower. Other clubs around don't have enough water for you plus you would be at leigh very quickly from preston: 5 mins from the M6



I saw Mike Budds son (i think) take a 49er out there...pretty funny. Once on a traveller I took an RS400 into the "nature reserve" and got a major rollocking ...presumably I was more scary to the coots and swans being preserved than the scouse kids chucking stones at them..

Friendly bunch- if you have an RS400....

glossop involves going round the M60 for you. Nightmare on fitba saturdays or wednesday nights

lakes are worth the drive and they avoid tidal problems


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