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Burghfield Bloodbath, Prizegiving and BBQ - 28th August 2024
For sailors and spectators, mark your calendars for the Burghfield Bloodbath, Sunday and Wednesday Series Prizegiving and a last Summer BBQ. We have had 101 boats out on the start line for this series! What is that was on one night! Sail, have a drink, have some BBQ food, pick up your trophies. It's still all to play for!
Published 10:58 on 22 Jul 2024
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1 CommentCAFE OPEN ON SATURDAYS, SUNDAYS & WEDNESDAY EVENINGS
Fantastic news that the Cafe will now be open on Saturdays, Sundays and also Wednesday evenings. This is available to all people using the club and Andrew Simpson Watersports centre. Its great to see the club so busy on the weekends now as the weather is improving.
Published 09:50 on 10 Jun 2024
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Laser Open Meeting Cancelled
Please be aware that we have unfortunately had to cancel the Laser Open Meeting and as such it will NOT be going ahead
Published 19:12 on 22 Apr 2024
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SOLO and Comet Open Results
A total of 33 Solos and 13 comets took to the water on Saturday, for 4 really close races, in the Solo's we saw 11 different boats scoring top 5 results and in the Comets we saw 7 boats. Congratulations to Tom Gillard who won the Solo Open convincingly with 4 race wins in total, and Edwin Pope who won the Comet open scoring 2 race wins. Thanks to the Race committee, organisers
Published 13:05 on 22 Apr 2024
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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
Published 07:45 on 18 Apr 2024
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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.
Published 16:17 on 4 Apr 2024
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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
Published 09:15 on 28 Mar 2024
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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
Published 09:07 on 25 Mar 2024
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Fire Inlands & Blaze & Aero Open Bookings Open
Entries now open https://www.burghfieldsailing.org/event/fire-inland-championships-and-blaze-open
Published 21:04 on 13 Feb 2024
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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
Published 12:55 on 27 Nov 2023
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BURGHFIELD 1st and 2nd at the Endeavour Trophy
Nick Craig and Toby Lewis win 2023 Endeavour Trophy Congratulations to the Burghfield Sailors Nick Craig for taking the win and and Matt Mee and Chris Martin for finishing in 2nd place, a fantastic write up on Yachts and Yachting, we all look forward to welcoming you back to the club over the coming weeks and competing against you!
Published 10:41 on 9 Oct 2023
