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adastral park sailing club

We're a friendly sailing club based on the east coast of England, near Ipswich (Suffolk). Our location offers a superb variety of sailing in the sheltered rivers and estuaries of the Suffolk and Essex coastlines and offers ready access to the open sea beyond Felixstowe for passages to other areas of the UK and Europe.

• Our club aims to promote sailing activities and a social community around it. We are linked to AtLAS and support its goals.
• Our club owns three dinghies and our yacht Samos.
• Practical training sessions for the yacht and dingies are held throughout the season. Our training programme is aligned to RYA.
• To skipper our club yacht members, go through a club syllabus with assessments as well as having to achieve RYA qualifications.
• Our club has contacts with local RYA instructors who offer the courses required as part of our syllabus.
• A great variety of sailing (both dinghies and yacht) is arranged throughout the season including races, rallies and social sails. In addition, independent sailing is possible via private sessions by qualified helms/skippers.
• The yacht is also used for Club summer cruises, which over the years have taken us to the Baltic, continental Europe, the Channel Islands and the Scilly Isles.
• We actively network with other clubs and yacht owners which leads to other sailing opportunities.
• Social Events are arranged, which allow us to share our sailing tales and experiences over a meal and a drink.
• Our members are expected to help with club organisation and boat maintenance which keeps our costs down.

New members are always very welcome. The club is open to everybody irrespective of sailing experience, although all members must be 18 years or older. You can join the club for dinghy and/or yacht sailing and at a level that suites you from complete beginner to experienced boat owner.

Membership - There are three types of membership. Yacht members can skipper, train or crew on Samos as well as use the dinghies. Dinghy members can helm, train or crew on any of our three dinghies. Owner/Social members have their own boats and can join in club events such as winter walks, Laying up suppers,races and rallies.

The club does not make a profit and we operate in such a way as to keep costs down. This allows a variety of sailing at a cost much lower than commercial rates.

If all this sounds good and you'd like to know more, we'd love to hear from you. Get in touch via the contact form on the Contact tab above.