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    Posted: 08 Nov 12 at 4:08pm
I've just remembered that the University of Cornwall has a Penryn campus - that is nice and close to Restronguet SC, where you'd get some of the best sailing the country has to offer. I have absolutely no idea what course they run, mind!
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"University of life" did the trick for me with frequent visits to the "Ocean Bar " 
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Originally posted by Rupert

I went to Aberystwyth nearly 30 years ago - the social side was the best around - the sailing, maybe not so much...
I went to Aber 6 years ago and it was pretty much the same then.  It wasn't the easier of places to sail from, especially after one of the wild storms (aka half the beach ended up on the street).  However, the trips to Bala were epic.

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I went to Soton when the Marine department was based out at Warsash .  I remember going to the sailing club meeting in the first couple of weeks and the place was rammed.  We were then told that if we hadn't won a national championship or equivilent in the last 12 months don't bother applying.  They still filled the team!!!  So for all us non-superstar sailors we looked elsewhere.  I did a season on a 505 at Weston and a couple of winter/spring series on a Sigma 33 and 38.  You could just head down to the Hamble and get a ride on loads of boats.  It was some of the best racing I've done.
 
I then went to Newcastle and my feet never got wet.......thats due to Newcastle being far too good a student city to let sailing get in the way!!!
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Whilst obviously the quality of the sailors changes year on year, there's a certain level of continuity of setup- as long as those running the club don't totally botch things up, a university club with good equipment and good access to sailing waters/yachts/etc will remain so. Indeed if anything it's the organisational side that's more important- and becoming an active part of that side is good and useful experience of the sort that people are reffering to when they say that university isn't just about the academic side.
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I would have said Southampton, which then reminded me of a funny tale.

Windsurfer squaddie really pee'd off with the rigours of the Olympic training and especially the national coach of the period, decides to chuck it all in and go back to Uni.

Turns up at Uni only to find the National Coach is now his lecturer there...
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http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/166668/BUCS-Fleet-Racing-Championships

Looks like Plymouth would give you some good people to race with/against, too.
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The real answer is there is no 'Best' university for sailing.

I can only really speak for the Scottish unis, and as alstorer said, over the last decade or so Strathclyde have been the strongest keelboat club, and Edinburgh consistently at the top of the dinghy leagues. Lately the differences have grown smaller though.... Strathclyde haven't managed to qualify for the worlds in the last 2 years, and after the first league weekend Strathclyde and Glasgow are joint at the top of the Team racing table with the top Edinburgh team several places down.

The point from this is not to read too much into past results - the nature of student sailing is that clubs change drastically year on year. Far better to choose a course you want in a location you want - and as long as theres an active club there you'll get on just fine.

That said: a lot of these posts have been assuming you want competitive sailing - if its the social aspect your looking for then SUSA is more fun.


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Echo the above: choose on academics first, extra curricular second. But then most of the "good" sailing universities do also have outstanding academic reputations, so it's quite hard to go wrong here, to be honest. Second rate and below universities tend to generally be worse for sports in general.

On the Scottish ones, Strathclyde about a decade ago won the student yachting worlds more than once, and since I left it, Edinburgh have won the BUSA team racing.
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Most decent unis have a sailing team, so I'd echo what was previously said... If it's just sailing you are after then I'd happily take your tuition fee off you and hand you back a shagged-out firefly to sail a handful of times per annum.
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