Draycote Water Sailing Club

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Huge congratulations to our Draycote Academy sailors, especially Hari Clark winning the ITCA (GBR) 5.3 Worlds, and Charlie Hunt becoming the International RS Tera Class Pro World Champ (with Hari Clark on the podium again in second place)🥳🥳🥳

Plus, more Academy sailors saw wonderful successes and achievements too!

Draycote Academy sailors have smashed out medal winning performances at two major championships: this summer's RS Tera and Topper Worlds. [Photo (c) Draycote Academy] https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/298649/?source=facebook

Draycote sailor, Stella Nygard, is the WASZP UK Women's National Champion! 🎉

"Wey-biza" turned it on for the WASZP fleet this summer. Across four days at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy, the 2026 WASZP UK Nationals served up warm sunshine and breeze in every flavour. [Photo (c) James Tomlinson Photography] https://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/298580/?source=facebook

Dates have been scheduled for a summer holidays RYA Instructor Course.

Join us on 24th -28th August to get your qualification.

There's only 6 places available, booking is open online via this link: https://webcollect.org.uk/mydwsc/event/rya-instructor-course

A successful first week of our children's summer holiday sailing courses, with everyone completing their stages and they will get their certificates this afternoon 🥳

Our junior courses continue for the next few weeks and are suitable for children with no experience before, we start from the very basics:
⛵ 3 days Stage 1
⛵ 5 days Stage 1 and 2

Key Info:
✅ 9.30am to 4.00pm each day
✅ Ages 8 - 15 years old
✅ Club membership is NOT required, courses are open to everyone
✅ We provide wetsuits, buoyancy aids and helmets
✅ Small group sizes and instructor ratios
✅ Swimming skills not needed, but should be water confident

Plus, we also have:
⛵ Sailing taster sessions - 2 hour mini-sessions to have a go at sailing
⛵ Sailing fun days - 2 days of fun on the water to have an extended go and learning the very basics of sailing.

View all the info and book online: https://webcollect.org.uk/mydwsc/event/rya-youth-summer-sailing-courses

See you soon!

Just one week until our next Summer TT at Draycote on Saturday 18th July! A one day event - briefing at 10:30am, first race scheduled for 11:30am, four races back to back. Onsite campervan/motorhome parking can be booked with your entry.

A friendly home fleet and a club that is very used to hosting us!

Entries close on Wed 15th July - late entries may be accepted up to 5pm on 17th July at an additional fee.

NOR and entry link are here: https://draycotewater.co.uk/events/dart-15-summer-tt-2026/

Banish the screens and solve your summer work/family dilemma!

Get your children on to our summer sailing activities so they're outdoors, learning new skills, and making new friends!

Available for children with no experience before, we start from the very basics:
⛵ 3 days Stage 1
⛵ 5 days Stage 1 and 2

Key Info:
✅ 9.30am to 4.00pm each day
✅ Ages 8 - 15 years old
✅ Club membership is NOT required, courses are open to everyone
✅ We provide wetsuits, buoyancy aids and helmets
✅ Small group sizes and instructor ratios
✅ Swimming skills not needed, but should be water confident

Plus, we also have:
⛵ Sailing taster sessions - 2 hour mini-sessions to have a go at sailing
⛵ Sailing fun days - 2 days of fun on the water to have an extended go and learning the very basics of sailing

View all the info and book online: https://webcollect.org.uk/mydwsc/event/rya-youth-summer-sailing-courses

See you soon! 😎