Kestrel Eastern National Championships 2021
If the tide is in, it’s time to swim!
With easy access to the water via our ramp, the pleasures and benefits of open water swimming are accessible to everyone in the club. We have an enthusiastic group of swimmers who enjoy our beautiful surroundings throughout the year and who are always happy to welcome those who would like to try the open water experience for themselves.
Warm changing rooms and showers ensure that swimming is easily accessible, even on the coldest of days, whilst our summer programme offers opportunities to join our safety boats and explore swimming areas further along the river.
Members Articles:
AGM Documents 2023
Kestrel Open Meeting 5th and 6th October 2024
Social Saturday night and Camping Available
Sandhopper Nationals 3rd and 4th August 2024
GP14 Open Meeting May 11th 2023
Video from the Event - YouTube
Open Meetings 2022 Sailing Instructions
YouTube Video and photos of the 2021 races
We extend a warm welcome to all GP14 sailors for our GP14 open event including Southern Area Championships at Maylandsea Bay Sailing Club on Saturday, 28 May and Sunday, 29 May 2022. Racing at Maylandsea takes place from Lawling Creek in sight of the clubhouse, up to the River Blackwater with a backdrop of Osea Island and the town of Maldon. Our location allows for easily adaptable course setting to suit the conditions of the day and the tidal element adds an extra spice to choosing your way around the course. Non sailors can enjoy the views of the estuary from the clubhouse or follow the progress of the racing on foot up on the sea wall. Entrants are more than welcome to come to the club on Friday evening as we have plenty of camping space and the village has a number of takeaway / restaurant options for food. Our well stocked galley will be open for breakfast and lunch over the weekend.
Sandhopper Open July 15th/16th 2023
Maylandsea Bay Sailing Club’s thriving Sandhopper fleet looks forward to welcoming guests to its annual Open Meeting over two days in July. Two races are scheduled each day, with courses, featuring Committee Boat starts, set in the main estuary.
With racing commencing in the middle of the day and the Club providing moorings, trot boat and a launch and recovery service in the days before and after the event this is a great opportunity for guests to enjoy the Blackwater river’s beautiful sailing waters and the clubhouse’s convivial surroundings. Galley and bar services are available and camping space can be provided.
Maylandsea Bay S.C. offers sailing in the area of Lawling Creek and the River Blackwater. Lawling Creek is a sheltered sailing water, which opens out into the River Blackwater giving the opportunity of an uninterrupted area of perfect sailing.
We enjoy joint racing with our neighbouring club H(B)SC. This is mainly for dinghies but our Keelboat fleet are able to enter some of the individual trophy events.
Our dinghy fleet racing is handicap racing and comprises of many types of boat which includes, Solo, Phantom, Finn, Wayfarer, Lark, GP14, Hadron, Laser, Laser Radial, Hornet and Kestrel of which we have one of the biggest fleets in the country. We are not restricted to these classes and every class is welcome.
Series racing normally takes place on a Sunday with other sailing events on a Saturday.
We also host class open meetings through the season and an open winter series, which normally runs from early November to Mid December, this is topped off with the Backwater Icicle as near as the tide allows to New Year.
We have a Laser Pico fleet, of which 4 are club owned boats, they race throughout the season and are the recognised cadet fleet boat but they are not exclusively for cadets. The Pico is also widely used for training (see our Training Page) for both cadets and adults. The club Picos can be used by members who are starting out and don’t yet have their own boat.
Our Keelboat fleet comprises mainly of Sandhoppers but is open to all small day boats, in the past we have had Hunter Europa, Hunter 19, Squib and Flying 15, the later two being somewhat precarious on the soft mud mooring.
The Sandhopper is derived from the Oliver Lee designed Squib. Where the Squib has a fin keel the Sandhopper has a shorter main keel and two bilge keels but to compensate for this has a much bigger sail area.
Added to our Dinghy and Keelboat fleets we also have a cruiser fleet (see cruiser Page)
There are two large dinghy parks for all year round dinghy storage and winter storage for Keelboats and cruisers, along with two concrete ramps for launch and recovery.