Welcome to the HSC Website
The club offers sailors, in both Dinghies and Keelboats, from beginner to expert and disabled the opportunity to sail in a beautiful part of Scotland in the safe, yet exciting inshore waters of the upper Firth of Clyde.
The friendly, purpose built clubhouse provides significant changing and showering facilities in the wet area, including showers and toilets for disabled sailors.
As an RYA recognised teaching establishment we provide children and adults with a wide range of courses to suit their ability, interests and available time.
If you would like to learn more about sailing, attend a course or give your children a rewarding hobby then why not visit HSC. There is also a Challenger group for Disabled Sailors.
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The new Clubhouse opened on the 27thJune 2009 by Olympic Team Manager Stephen Park, OBE.
The clubhouse has an 8Mb Broadband connection, with free Wi-Fi access to club members and during events. The club also boasts a weather station and web Cams providing "live" data that also is fed onto this page of the website
HSC is Scotland's first Volvo Championship Club, and boasts not only a thriving and active membership but also a very keen RYA Training Section
The club is very active on the dinghy scene with some noted names in its membership and is a recognised RYA teaching establishment with a sound commitment to young sailors. Many of its one-time dinghy enthusiasts have, with the advancing years, moved to yachts and contribute to racing on the East Patch which is conducted in collaboration with Royal Northern and Clyde YC.
The friendly, purpose built clubhouse provides significant changing and showering facilities in the wet area plus a large social area with a convivial bar and kithen facilities that meets the needs of all type of members and visitors whether dinghy or keelboat. Various national championships have been hosted here, with regular dinghy traveller's events.
Launching: Very close to the dinghy park is a large slipway able to cope with launching needs of large numbers of boats. A secondary launch area is also available for very large events
The Dinghy Park: Has a capacity to safely tie down in excess of 150 boats and now boasts a 14 space inflatable tender rack at the top of the slipway
Moorings: Just off the club there is capacity for about 100 Keelboat moorings in relatively sheltered waters
Contact: Moorings@helensburghsailingclub.co.uk
Club Open: from March to October
Bar Open all year: Sundays (16:00) & Wed Ev (20:30)
Website: The site was completely overhauled Late 2006 Early 2007. Since then it has been kept up-to-date, with new regular content, in particular forth coming events both on and off the water and Dinghy & Keelboat results. It is the easiest way to keep up with what-on, race results and all other club related info.
[08Dec2009]