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Bewl Valley Sailing Club
Weekend Visit 1-
The club has excellent facilities, including a first class galley, and there are local pubs for an evening meal.
Don’t be put off if you haven’t a boat because we will be taking some club boats and members will need crews. New members will have a great experience.
BVSC would like to know how many will be going and when so please let Richard know if you may be going by ringing 01932 786636 or emailing richard@cannonr.me.uk; he will also give you a voucher so you can enter the Bewl complex without paying the entry fee. We also need to know who may be going so we can plan what boats to take.
After the terrible sailing we have had this year this is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy sailing on a large expanse of water in good winds with no current.
Bring plenty of clothing, conditions can change very quickly and you often need to wade into the water to launch or come ashore; shorts can be good.
There is more information on the AQSC web site, sailaquarius.org.uk
Normally we visit Bewl Water on the August Bank Holiday Monday; this year BVSC are hosting the Comet Nationals that weekend and will be too busy to have visitors.
They have invited us to go the following weekend; there is a Youth Regatta on Saturday 1st September and an Open Regatta on Sunday 2 September. They say ‘You are most welcome to camp, sail in the regatta and to just sail at Bewl’. Camping is in a large field near the club and car park.
Bewl Water is a beautiful 900 Acre reservoir three miles long in the natural surroundings of the Kent countryside. It is off the A21 Hastings road, just pass Lamberhurst, about one hour from the A3 Kingston bypass.
