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Wednesday evening racing and social has started
Fantastic evening at Burghfield for the first Wednesday evening race and social, 30 plus boats enjoyed a fantastic course covering most of the lake with Pippa in the Oppi starting and finishing first, just holding off the Fire Inland Champion David Shafto. The introduction this year of Personal Handicaps taken from last year encouraged close racing throughout the fleet, at one point 8 boats were calling for room at buoy 7, also great to see More »
18 Apr 2024
It is with great regret that this weekend's Merlin Rocket ST Open has been postponed owing to adverse weather forecasts
The Open Meeting organiser has taken the decision to postponed the Merlin Rocket Open Meeting on Saturday due to the adverse weather forecast, we are extremely disappointed, however will be working with the Merlin Rocket Association to re-schedule the event for later in the year. The organiser will also be in-touch with the pre-entries to refund the entry fees. More »
4 Apr 2024
RS Aero Open 2024
Fifteen RS Aeros were greeted by a blustery Burghfield with all the promise of an exciting day's racing that did not disappoint! The fleet divided cleanly for Class racing with RS Aero 7s and RS Aero 5s and it was all on for 4 races, split by a nice lunch break in the club to recuperate! Each race was 2 laps with a downwind slalom covering all the angles and giving two gybes. After More »
28 Mar 2024
FIre Inlands Results
A turnout of 9 boats were treated to Burghfield at its gusty best! The morning racing gave the sailors some testing conditions, massive gusts and rain across the lake caused capsizes and planing reaches, which gave the Balcony fleet some great viewing and obviously in their heads race wins! At lunch the race wins were shared between David Shafto and Douglas Clow, each with a one, two, so the afternoon was all to play More »
25 Mar 2024
Fire Inlands & Blaze & Aero Open Bookings Open
Entries now open https://www.burghfieldsailing.org/event/fire-inland-championships-and-blaze-open More »
13 Feb 2024
RS Aero UK Youth Championships 2023 - Burghfield SC, Reading, UK, 25/26 Nov
RS Aero UK Youth Championships 2023 - Burghfield SC, Reading, UK, 25/26 Nov Thanks to all at Burghfield SC for putting on an excellent weekend despite testing conditions. Thanks to Tom Jones for his summary; Burghfield Sailing Club welcomed twenty lively, up and coming young RS Aero youth sailors to compete for the UK National Youth Champion titles. Joining them was American Dylan Williams, flying over for the camaraderie More »
27 Nov 2023
Upcoming events
Apr 20 |
Comet / Solo Open |
Apr 21 |
Spring Series 2024 » Spring Series 2024 Weekend 3 |
Apr 21 |
10:00 - Oppie Club » OPI CLUB 2 |
Apr 24 |
18:30 - Wednesday Evening Pursuit » Wednesday Evening Personal Han… |
Apr 25 |
Sailability Cancelled |
Apr 28 |
Spring Series 2024 » Spring Series 2024 Weekend 4 |
Apr 28 |
10:00 - Oppie Club » OPI CLUB 3 |
May 1 |
18:30 - Wednesday Evening Pursuit » Wednesday Evening Personal Han… |
May 2 |
Sailability Cancelled |
May 4 |
Solo Class Training SessionSOLO TRAINING DAY Saturday 4 th |
May 5 |
Spring Series 2024 » Spring Series 2024 Weekend 5 |
May 5 |
10:00 - Oppie Club » OPI CLUB 4 |