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Arnside Wanderer Event – August 2022

The second Arnside Wanderer Event took place on Sunday 14th and Monday 15th August. Wanderers Race Monday – Arnside behind Arnside is located in Cumbria at the top of Morecambe Bay on the Kent Estuary south of Kendal. At high tide the estuary offers a large outstandingly scenic sailing area with views towards the Lake District hills. The village developed as a small select resort with the coming of the railway with the Victorians holding regattas. It is overlooked by Arnside Knott, which is 522 feet high. The Lancaster to Barrow railway line crosses the estuary at Arnside running along the north side of the estuary to Grange-over-Sands, an extremely gentile holiday resort, which makes Budleigh Salterton in Devon look brash. The tide comes in with a Bore. With a full moon and spring tides, the Bore was exceptionally good on both days with strong tidal currents.  You need to

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August 19, 2022 No Comments
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WandererFest 2022 by Richard Maltby

You will not get better than this: four days blessed by glorious sunshine, a consistent sea breeze each day as if switched on for boats to go sailing, high water in the afternoon, great company, adventure, and the peaceful enjoyment of Cobnor Point for camping. The highlight of the WCOA programme, WandererFest attracted more than 30 Wanderers and two Gulls (owned by WCOA members), and more than 60 sailors. We had a fantastic time. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the content. Please Log In. Not a Member? Join Us

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August 13, 2022 No Comments
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Spring 2022

In ten days time our 2022 Inland Championships will again be hosted by Cotswold SC over the weekend of May 14/15.   Please see here the Notice of Race. For those of you who are new to our class association, please do not be put off by thinking this event is only for out and out racers.  All levels of skill and experience are most welcome and the best way of sharpening up your sailing skills is to sail with other Wanderers.  Our racing is friendly but still competitive. Last September we held our inaugural meeting at Cotswold SC – indeed it was our 2021 Inland Championships –  and this venue must be one of the prettiest inland sailing clubs in the country.     Wanderers Leonie Johnson (who is the club’s Commodore) and Lindsay Weatherley know how to put on a great event as well as being active racers and cruisers in

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May 3, 2022 No Comments
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West Oxfordshire Race Report 2022

Report from Adam Wickenden It’s not usually this windy here they claimed.     Hmmmm. The Wanderer fleet heard the same thing last time they were at WOSC when Storm Hannah blew through. The brisk easterlies forecast only discouraged two entries from turning up, leaving five hardy crews to enjoy the delight of Wanderer racing and the Wanderer tradition of after sail food. Everybody (yes, everybody) also partook in the very un-Wanderer sport of swimming! Oh, we also had a fleet of Wayfarers to dodge – it was their Southern Area championships. Their presence turned out to be very useful, starting five minutes before us. ‘Follow the Wayfarers’ became the best way of sussing out WOSC’s complicated courses round its 11 basic blue cans, let alone different coloured buoys as special one-off marks. Saturday. We started with the Event Coordinator’s ‘build a Wanderer Challenge’. A long-term project, a bit like

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April 30, 2022 No Comments

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