Ely Sailing Club

Dear all, To encourage you down to the club after the long winter break, we are doing the only thing guaranteed to bring in a crowd. Free food and drink. The club will be hosting a Commodore's Reception after the Easter Egg races at 4:30pm on Easter Sunday. There will be complimentary sparkling wine, tea, coffee, cakes and scones. It will be a great opportunity for you to discuss the exciting developments at the club, and to go through the training, sailing and social events

The upcoming spring bank holiday on Monday 29th May will bring the usual long traffic queues on the counties roads. This means the normal mix of upset children, overheated adults and a wasted day off. But those fantastic people on the club committee have come up with the perfect solution. We invite you to come along to the members family fun day we are running at the club, we will even allow you to bring children along as well. We will be running fun, water-based games, and

We have had a strong start to the 2017 season. Both the social and racing sessions have been busy. The weather has been mainly dry, and only on a few occasions have we had such poor weather that sailing was cancelled. For the Camweld trophy last weekend we had to sail in very challenging high gusty winds. This led to many capsizes and very exciting racing. It was a very battered, bruised and aching bunch of sailors who left the club on Sunday afternoon. But the excitement, an

Welcome back to the new season! After a long winter break, I hope that you are all ready to start sailing again. We have a fuller calendar, with more dates for Friday social sailing this year. The club is also aiming to run more social functions this year. We have a new 'Events Committee' who have been charged with organising some memorable events. We are starting off with the Commodore’s New Season Welcome in the clubhouse on Friday 31st March at 7:30 pm. We will be runni

Hopefully a great sporting Summer is about to start. There are a number of items your General Committee and I would like to let you know about and remind you about. Our Training Principal, Steve Board, has kindly offered to run a session on the techniques to use when rescuing using the safety boats. If you would like to participate in this, please let Steve or myself know. The Partners Race (1 hour on the water with your Partner) is now scheduled for 11am on 3rd July. Please

Happy New Year to you all! It was good to see so many of you at the Laying up Supper, Annual General Meeting and the Christmas Lunch. Thank you for supporting the Club. This Sunday 10th January sees the start of the Winter Working Parties. We meet at 10.30am. The aim is to maintain the Club and the Sailing Area. You can do as much as you wish some hand tools are available but if you have your own that is especially welcome. We stop for lunch which is usually Bacon Butties and

Hello Members Now it is warm there is no excuse not to come down to the Club if not to sail then just to enjoy the surroundings with a long cool drink. It has been a busy June with all the events, courses and training sessions taking place as scheduled, except the partners race which will be re-run in August. Watch this space for details. The Ladies Plate saw new and old members team up and race in Enterprises and Emma Rees race in a Topper. Gary Ungless set some interesting

Hello Members Another busy month with very successful Open Day and Evening with over 70 new comers experiencing sailing at Ely. Thank you to all those who helped with these events. It resulted in the Cadet Camp being filled, new members and a boost to our profile locally. The junior trophy was won by Jack Knight and Simon Leeks won the Whitsun Trophy our congratulations go to them. We have also entertained Stretham Scouts and successfully past the 2015 RYA Training Centre Ins

Great start to the season. The number of members taking part in Easter Egg and Camweld Trophies are up on last year. Congratulations go to Gary Ungless and John Wells who won the Bank Holiday Trophies respectfully. The cadets have been in action too with Jack Knight, Molly Lee, Kirk Stamford and Laura and Matthew Campbell taking part in the first inter club event held at Cam Sailing Club. For the full race report see the Ely Sailing Club Facebook page. The training team have

Commodores Waffle back by public demand! It looks like the first day of the new season is going to be a windy one. Racing starts this Sunday 29th March at 1pm. There has already been a lot of activity at the Club this year, the training team have been in full swing with lots of new and old members gaining their First Aid qualification under the tutelage of Principal Steve Board. We also have five new Assistant Instructors who completed their course last weekend. Our thanks go

Hello All, As you may know, I will be standing down as your Commodore at the AGM this evening. I hope you will join us tonight voting in our new Commodore and Committee Members. (Thursday 27th November 2014 @ 7:30pm in Clubhouse). It’s been an honour being your Commodore. I wish to take this opportunity to thank you, the members of Ely Sailing Club, for all your time and support helping make the last two years a roaring success. It’s with great sadness that I sign out of this

Commodores Waffle It’s sadly that time of the year again when our sailing season is drawing to a close…. But fear not! This is the time of year to PARTY!!! We’ve still got loads going on at Ely Sailing Club; I hope you will be able to join us. As I mentioned in my last Waffle we will be holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 27th November and we are still taking nominations for new committee members. Every year committee members rotate to allow new people with fresh idea

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Commodores Waffle’. I hope your all well and making the most of the warmer weather as the summer quickly draws to an end. This is not yet to say it is the end of our season here at Ely Sailing Club. Although the Thursday night sessions have finished due to lack of light we are still up and running with Saturday afternoons for social sailing and Sunday afternoons for racing. – Hope to see you there! We will be holding our Annual General Meeti

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Commodore's Waffle’. I hope you're all well and making the most of this beautiful summer weather. You might have noticed some of our cadets modelling our new Ely Sailing Club polo shirts around the clubhouse. I am pleased to announce that the new Ely Sailing Club polo shirts are available in various sizes (adults and children’s) and colours. If you would like to purchase one they are £14 for adults and £12 for children’s sizes and can be purc

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Commodores Waffle’. I hope you're all well and enjoying this beautiful summer weather. When can I sail? It is great to see so many new members coming to the club to enjoy a sail. Social sailing is on Saturday afternoons and Thursday evenings which is also combined with some social racing, which I would encourage everyone to join in. There are still a few Friday evening social sessions to go this season. For Open events held at the club the

Welcome to the latest Commodores Waffle, I hope everyone is keeping well. As the new season gets under way its good to see so much interest in the club so early on. As you know we have got an action packed year ahead so please keep an eye on the website and like our Facebook page to keep updated. Firstly as few house keeping points: Is anyone has seen or has borrowed some gardening loppers from the club, Frank kindly lends these to the club over the winter whilst we are worki

Dear All, Welcome to the 2014 Ely Sailing Club sailing season!!! We’ve had a really busy winter working party, with the club, grounds and kit all having a spruce up. Sailing, at long last, starts on Sunday 30th April and not forgetting our Spring Bowling Social on Saturday. I hope to see you all at some point then! If you have not yet got your tickets, and want to come, please get in contact with Jill on 01353 662661. We will be holding a rules evening and an assistant/dinghy

Happy New Year to all, I hope you have had a good lay up and enjoyed your Christmas break. We had an immensely busy season last year, and we are hoping to go bigger and better this season! We have had confirmation of St Mary’s school booking sailing courses for all their year six (a total of ninety) students as well as City College’s annual sailing day, along with people already booking courses. The winter working parties have been busy keeping the club looking fantastic – a