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    Posted: 04 Feb 13 at 12:14am
Island Sailing Club Reading offer all year round sailing. For members who want to "unwind" after working in Reading(!), there's always the option of going for a sail after work, but the main weekday evening series is on Wednesdays during the Summer months. If enough participants turn up, someone will happily man a safety boat and even host a simple race. OK, it isn't full on racing and will never pretend to be, but I've had some of my most therapeutic sails ever there.
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Draycote - open 364 days a year with pro rescue cover. Water is typically open from 10ish through to dusk, slightly later for finishing the Wednesday driftathons.

Wednesday day time sailing for Solos, and evening racing for everyone else who hasn't retired yet. Another night there's canoeing and even some talk of SUPping. Friday evening is a training race session, aimed at newbies, but all welcome; it's usually backed by an RYA bod and someone mean and handy with a BBQ for afterwards.

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BBSC has evening sailing on a Thursday in the summer months.  Usually it attracts around a dozen boats for the single handicap race... and it often turns into a drifter as the sun sets.  I guess those that come the most regularly either live close enough and/or get off work early enough to make it worth while. 
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At Bartley sc, there is sailing every day but Monday and Friday during the summer months (at least when I last checked), there is also sailing every wednesday lunch time during the winter.

At St Catherine's sc there is sailing every Thursday evening during the summer, and I believe (although I have never sailed there during the winter) that they lay up every winter.

As far as I am aware, (during the summer) the weekday sailing is very popular - at least half the boats go out at St Catherine's, and at Bartley, a fair amount of people come out during the week when it is on - of course I am not there all the time, however, this is my experience of it....
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Chew is only open Weds, Thurs, Sat and Sunday. Wednesday day time is when the schools, pensioners, police etc go sailing. The Weds evening series is very popular, 80+ boats every week, and is just based on the normal format of classes and a general handicap fleet.

I'm not sure what happens Thursday day time, but I believe there are improver lessons in the summer evenings.

I would love the lake to be open on Fridays - so many people now have Friday afternoons off, and it would be a great time to get some practise in.
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"Pink Sailing" and "Hitting female sailors" not to mention "New blood getting involved with Juniors". Burton SC sounds very cool.......My Solo went there, he will be shocked right down to his fabric supports!
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We have a midweek series through the summer with starts typically from 6pm but due to our tidal situation it's not the same night every week. We also have no limit on when you can go sailing, but rescue cover is only provided when there is a planned race or event.
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Originally posted by winging it

Does your club offer sailing on weekdays/nights?  If so, what format does it take - training, juniors, racing, cruising?  Is it popular?  Has it affected the success of the  club as a whole ie more members, more people racing at weekends? 

If your club doesn't offer weekday sailing, would you go along if it did, and what nights/days would suit you best?  What would make you most likely to go - training, racing, cruising?  Or is sailing something you just do at weekends?

Our buddy rules are fairly open in the winter. We usually go out for a play by ourselves weather permitting. 

Summer we have a thursday evening series which is great!

For our club full weekday sailing would come at a higher rent cost and the need for staffed ribs so we just use the buddy system.
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At Prestwick SC in Scotland we have racing every Thurs nite from May to Aug. Last few years we have built up Tues nite as a non racing night, for improvers. Sometimes on the Tuesdays we offer coaching to adults or cadets.The Tues nite is more relaxed and open to everybody, so beginners are not put off by racing types. We also allow sailing anytime during week, but it must be two boats at least if offshore wind.
Activity during week has built up very well.
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