Launching RS700 from beach

Yep, that's the easy part...

Coming back ashore gracefully in big waves can be done reasonably easily with a lifting centreboard (pick your moment, sit as far back as you can and don't slow down).
It gets tricky when the boat's got a daggerboard. Might be worth applying the Topper method (along with the "pick your moment, sit as far back as you can and don't slow down" trick): keep the board down a smidgen, just enough to keep you straight, and the beach will pop it out!

I must say Hill Head SC looks fantastic (I looked at the website and Google Earth).  You should try Google Earth on and around the Medway and you'll find we have big wide open spaces too.  Even with the tide out we often get a downwind leg of a couple of kilometres and with the tide up the high performance boats play in an area which is about 2.5km wide by 3.5km long.  We also have some long distance races during the year which often take us to the mouth of the Medway which is 14km away as the crow flies.  So far from being on a puddle we have the benefit of a big sailing area mostly bounded by marshlands which are only a few feet above sea level giving us very clear winds especially from the east, north and south once we are down river a bit.  Feel free to pay us a visit with your boat and try it out.

It looks spacious to me.

Originally posted by Doug.H Or of course join a club where launching and landing isnt an issue.........long live wilsonian

but you dont have to go puddle sailing to have no difficulty launching, get a harbour, much nicer, then you can wind up the slow boats too. ( http://www.hillheadsc.org.uk/ )