Cruisers
Welcome to the Keyhaven Yacht Club Cruising Section
(in association with Lymington Town Sailing Club)
The aim of this Cruising group is to visit new and familiar ports, places and areas and to explore and share experiences in the company of supportive others.
The cruising programme is designed to include all boats, power or sail, big or small, in areas that stretch from local ports like Yarmouth to the waters of continental Europe on the Summer cruise.
We have a wide range of rallies organised by members for members to enable new and varied experience cruisers to venture near and further afield to suit.
As a member of the Club, you may also be able to join a boat as crew, if the boat owner is short of crew and there is a place or port you want to visit.
By joining the group, you will not only be kept informed of the rallies, dates and organising club members, but also social events at the Club too. We have a regular monthly Cruisers Catch Up on the first Thursday of the month. There are also events at LTSC that you are welcome to join.
We are always open to new ideas for interesting places to visit or new journeys to experience and are keen to welcome all to join in the fun.
We also have some fabulous Keyhaven Yacht Club battleflags to fly at events available for purchase from the office.
A bonus for joining the rallies is that the organisers frequently arrange guaranteed moorings reservations at the locations, have local knowledge, find restaurants for evening / social events and can help with passage planning (where appropriate). However, participants can choose to participate as little or as much as they please, it is entirely up to you how much you join in.
This enables individual cruising boat owners (power or Sail) to visit places that they may not have considered or may be very familiar with, in the company of other like-minded people, taking some of the stress out of trying to organise it individually.
The 2025 Cruising Programme will be launched at KYC on 19th February with hot buffet food. Tickets are on sale now at £6 per person. For the new programme see PDF below. You can also keep a look out for social events on the boards in the Club, social media and on the website.
We have also have a WhatsApp Community - please see the QR codes in the Club, contact the office or Tim Matcham to join and keep fully up to date with all the latest Rally news and chat.
All welcome - COME AND JOIN US!!!
Tim Matcham, Cruising Lead
