Club Evening The committee have organised a Social Evening at the Selsey Club in Coxes Road, Selsey, PO20 9AN on Thursday 18th June 2026 from 7.00pm onwards. It’s an informal social gathering. Please bring your partners along, it’s in the same room as the Christmas do

Come along and have a drink and a chat, meet up with boating friends and find out the latest club news.

If you are building something then bring it along for others to enjoy, part built projects can be very interesting
If you have anything model boating related for sale, please bring it along too

If anyone would like to give a short talk, It doesn't have to be about model boats with a duration of about 10 to 20mins long, please contact Simon.

May Racing 6 skippers turned up to race despite the rain. 7 races of 2 laps were completed.
There was good shelter under the trees and we were out of the wind plus everyone had brought their rain gear.
There were still some patches of weed about and Linda's yacht was the best at picking it up, It did a good job at clearing the pond for others!
The wind wasn't as strong as forecast but it was particularly shifty going from island to outlet buoys.
Well done to race winners Colin, Simon and Linda. Colin and Linda ended up with the same points and Keith was only one point behind them.
Richard was one point behind Keith and Alan's boat was also affected by weed.
Simon did pickup some weed, luckily this was on the recce lap he did before we started racing.

Team relay Racing We held the team relay racing on 24th April, it was an easterly wind and the only breeze that was getting to the pond was through the entraceway.
2 teams of 3 raced around buoys that were placed in the area where there was some wind.
After 4 races there was a tie so a 5th race was run and the winning "yellow team" were Paul B Phil and Linda.
Simon and Linda used their new Spark One yachts which are designed to glide through weeds!

April Racing at Gosport It was a good venue, we had a very enjoyable afternoon with an excellent SE wind. 6 skippers took part; we had to share some boats because Colin's radio control was playing up.
Simon was about to let Colin sail his boat when it started to make grinding noises, then the sail servo gave up!
As Colin's servos were fine we fitted my radio gear into his yacht and we were back to 5 boats racing.
Even using the smaller of the 2 ponds we still had a nice big race course with plenty of opportunities to overtake, or slip back!
Ian was having some great races, keeping well up with the leaders when oops the servo tray came detached from the hull, so we were back to 4 boats for the remainder of the day.

In the results I used the skipper's number throughout, so you will see 44 won a few races, most of those were with Colin's speedy yacht!
Well done to Linda who won the day, Simon 2nd and Keith 3rd.
Thanks to Ian for providing info and being a great host!

Weed Problem The weed has come back again and its not possible to do racing so this will be held at Gosport Sunday 26th April

March racing at the pond it was cold and very muddy, but we managed to do some racing and it was great fun.
We had 7 Scamps, so decided to use the start line and a 30sec countdown; a couple of boats were over the line and had to pay the penalty.
For once there weren't any collisions and the finishes were very close, so close that Colin was having trouble trying to write the numbers down fast enough!
Race winners were Phil and Alan, Final places were Phil 1st, Simon 2nd, and Paul C 3rd, Alan had electrical problems and had to retire.  Phil still won overall despite trying to demolish his own boat by ramming it into the bank.

We had 9 Victoria skippers who sailed in a variable wind from the East. The pond was playing tricks on us because the flag by the steps was showing plenty of wind but the first mark placed nearby had none.
We manged to get around the course as there were some patches of breeze about but they were very flukey and only found if you were lucky.
Unfortunately there were a few reeds on the surface that affected Simon and Paul C badly.  We had several race winners, Linda, Paul B, Colin and Alan.
The final places are Linda 1st, Colin 2nd, Alan 3rd.
Well done to all the skippers, they did well avoiding contacts in such tricky conditions, however in one Race Linda and Paul B got so close together that they could not tack and ended up sailing into the Island.  They didn't need to be rescued as eventually they drifted off.

February Racing The ground was still very boggy in places but it was really good that Ambipar had gone.
We had 5 Scamps racing which dropped to 4 when Alan's stopped at the first buoy, somehow a problem with the rudder servo had caused this.
Richard and Phil had some very close races, Phil won one and Richard won the other 3, this gave Richard 1st, Phil 2nd and Simon 3rd.

The wind was initially very light and the first yacht race seemed to take ages, as the morning went on we got slightly more wind and it got easier to sail around the pond.
Well done to Paul C, who hadn't raced for a while and won 2 races, after some close finishes with Simon he was all set to win the last race but as he approached the finish line Simon tacked onto starboard forcing Paul to tack and Simon just won by an inch.
The scamp recovery service rescued Phil's yacht from the island and somehow the scamp managed to tow it back to the steps in reverse!
After 6 races we ended up with Simon 1st, Paul C 2nd, and Alan 3rd.

At least it stayed dry and I think most people enjoyed the morning.

January racing Today we managed to get some good racing done before the rain set in. Before we began Alan, Phil and Colin removed a couple of large branches that were submerged near the Reeds buoy.
5 Scamps were launched and we soon realised that Linda's had transmission problems, the other 4 raced and we had 3 different race winners.  Several collisions took place throughout the racing but no damage was caused.
Overall positions were Richard 1st, Phil 2nd, Simon 3rd and Alan 4th.
Alan later found his prop was missing some material!
6 skippers sailed 4 Victoria races in a shifting easterly wind, some of the pond was very sheltered, so we stayed in the windy part as much as possible.
Just before the start of race 2 Colin's yacht lost its jib fixing in a collision so he was a spectator/helper for the rest of the morning.
Linda and Simon were the race winners and ended up with the same points, Alan had a few 3rd places and was racing for 2nd place in a couple of races.
The Scamp rescue service was required to untangle Phil and Alan's yachts which were stuck together on the red buoy in the last race.
Overall positions were Simon 1st, Linda 2nd, Alan 3rd, Richard 4th, Phil 5th, Colin 6th
It was good to be back on the water after all the rubbish January weather.