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Wanderer Class Owners’ Association 40th Anniversary

Looking ahead to the New Year, the 2025 AGM and Celebratory Dinner for the 40th Anniversary of the Wanderer Class Owners’ Association will take place at the RNLI College in Poole on Saturday 1st March 2025 in the Waterfront Suite. (RNLI College, Poole, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 IHZ)   Members should have received their notification email about this and are warmly invited together with a guest or even making up a group to join us in celebrating 40 years of sailing with friends. Jill Davies, daughter of Ian Proctor the designer of the Wanderer, and Andy Peter, the founder chairman of the WCOA will be our guest speakers.    This promises to be a great event for the Association in a first class centre known for the hospitality and warmth that comes with the life saving mission of the RNLI and for the stunning views of the harbour.

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November 5, 2024 No Comments

Wanderer National Championships at Cotswold SC – 28/29th September

Cotswold Sailing Club occupies one of the lakes in the Cotswold Water Park complex south of Cirencester. We have visited on a number of occasions over the years for our Inlands. This was the first time they had hosted our Nationals.It was with some trepidation that the Wanderer fleet scanned the weather on the week leading up to the event. We were wondering quite how big the lake would have grown with the September rain, and if maybe we would have been able to sail over the road and into South Cerney SC. As it was, the lake was only up by a few inches. There was no rain over the course of the event, and the wind (mostly) played ball. 6 visitors from as far afield as Grafham and Whitstable joined 3 local boats on the Saturday morning for a midday start. The wind was a light north westerly,

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October 3, 2024 No Comments
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WandererEast – Whitstable

5-day event of cruising and racing 29th August to 3rd September 2023 Report by Elizabeth Doggart Photos by contributors to the online WandererEast album initiated by Doug Hughes Wanderer sailors from far and wide came together in the new venture of “Wanderer East” to enjoy a few days of cruising and racing from 29th August to 3rd September 2023 at the charming Kent seaside town of Whitstable. Whitstable Yacht Club is home to a tight-knit community of Wanderer sailors who have the good fortune to enjoy sailing along the attractive bays and creeks of the north Kent coast. The Wanderer class, with their distinctive sail profile (and glorious spinnakers), stability and versatility, is the perfect vessel for what the RYA dinghy trail calls the “dinghy cruising paradise” of the Swale.   We welcomed our Wanderer visitors with joy in happy anticipation of the days to come, as campervans took up

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November 2, 2023 No Comments

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