Yarmouth Sailing Club Scow 100 celebrations - Sunday 21st July
Published 09:54 on 22 Jul 2024
What a turn out for the Scow 100 at Yarmouth Sailing Club on the Isle of Wight - scows as far as the eye could see!
The Potterers section have just had a brilliant day trip over to Yar Sailing Club to celebrate 100 years of their club sailing Bembridge Scows. 6 scows each from HCSC and KYC set off early to wait outside Yarmouth to be towed through the harbour (with our 2 support boats and 2 from YSC) to wait for the bridge to open.
YSC treated us to a welcome beverage and biccies before we all boarded our scows to set off on a circuit around the river as a sail past celebration. It was quite a sight - wonderfully colourful sails as always and some pretty close shaves as 40 + scows zipped about a tight course. I lost track of how many circuits we did but was grateful when we finally moored up to go in for the feat YSC had laid on for lunch. We always receive such a friendly welcome at YSC and this exceeded all expectation, there was even live music.
Our thanks go especially to Pete Giles at YSC who organised the whole thing and has been liaising frequently with me, Nick and Mike since early this year - many thanks to you both for your OOD leadership today too.
Sadly we had to leave to be towed back through the harbour and then put up our sails for an exhilarating wind against tide trip back over the Solent to sail back up the river safely home.
It's hard to imagine a better day sailing and socialising.
Report by Long Potter Lead, Liz MacEwan. Photographs courtesy of YSC, Joanna Edwards, Simon Allison & Liz MacEwan.
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