Rockley Junior Sailing Club
This is a weekly club run on a Saturday morning at Poole Park. The idea is for the children to be able to continue sailing and participating regularly, in between courses. The club comprises a mixture of fun race training and regattas. This is not to complete further RYA courses, but is to give the children more time on the water. It is suitable for anyone that is at RYA stage 2 level and keen to keep sailing. Boat hire is also available at Poole Park.
Poole Yacht Club
Poole Yacht Club offers good quality club racing in a variety of boats. There is a membership policy and further details can be found on their website www.pooleyc.co.uk. For youth sailors the club offer informal training for members, and a very good race-training programme. The fleets sailed at Poole YC are Optimists, mirrors, laser 4.7, 420s. For adults the fleets are Ospreys, GP14, Dayboats and Laser. Poole Yacht Club is an RYA Training Centre, an RYA Onboard Club and also a Volvo Championship Club.
Parkstone Yacht Club
Parkstone YC is another excellent club for racing and offers lots of options for racing fleets. For youth sailing there is a very active race programme in several different classes, ranging from the Poole AB, toppers, cadets, and laser 4.7s through to RS 200. For adults racing is available in the lasers, wayfarer, enterprise, Merlin rocket, RS 400, F18, darts and albacores. There is a lovely clubhouse with excellent bar and catering facilities available, but is a members only club. There is a strict membership policy and further details can be obtained from www.parkstoneyachtclub.com. Parkstone is also an RYA training Centre, an Onboard Club and a Volvo Championship Club.
East Dorset Sailing Club
The club caters for both cruising and dinghy sailors alike, with around 60 swinging moorings suitable for mono-hull or multi-hull craft. There are drying and deep-water moorings for boats use during the season (1st April to 31st October) and tenders are moored on outhauls along the wooden pier. Dinghy spaces are located on hard standing and can be easily launched from the slipway. The clubhouse provides showers, a wet room and a members lounge with kitchen facilities.
The East Dorset Sailing Club is a relatively small, friendly club dedicated to sailing with an active programme including both racing and cruising. During the summer the racing is carried out on Friday evenings within the harbour or on specific weekends in Poole Bay. However, a full social programme is also laid on both in summer and winter so there is plenty of opportunity to get together. Further details can be found on www.eastdorsetsailingclub.co.uk
