As of 1st October 2020 the restrictions on travel in and out of Wrexham, Flint, Denbigh and Conwy mean that there is no organised sailing until Sunday October 18th at the earliest. The COVID Return to sailing group will review the situation in the week commencing October 12th. However…. As the Club is in Conwy, […]
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Latest COVID Development
As of Friday evening we should be able to travel to the club on Sunday for the purpose of out doors exercise. Kevin Ringer has been keeping tabs on developments and circulated the following notice about the Test & Trace app: As recommended by the RYA, our site is a registered venue for the NHS […]
Sunny Sunday 20th
A big vote of thanks to Peter Davies for both being OOD and loaning his K1 to Brian for a great day’s sailing in sunny force 3-4 conditions. Andrew Forshaw was in the patrol boat and having no one to rescue took a load of great photos with a sample below. .
A Typical Brenig Sunday..
10.30am – a small gaggle of sailors watched the squalls whistle over the bay with the moorings. But then all seemed to calm down. Sarah, our intrepid patrol boat crew was given the anemometer and sent out into the middle of the lake to see if it was above force 4 (our COVID rules limit). […]
Back to Sailing
The Glorious 12th! – No, not the start of the grouse season – our first chance to get back to the Club since coronavirus struck. What’s more the sun shone and a gentle breeze blew from the West. Both the big RIBs are now on their moorings. We had to mount a rescue mission to […]
A Message from the Commodore
Dear Member I hope you are all keeping safe and well and are looking forward to being on the Brenig waters again. Finalisation of that date is in the hands of the Welsh First Minister raising the 5 mile travel limit, but we are provisionally looking at: 12th July – Reserved for sorting out the practicalities […]
Good News – Bad News
The Welsh Government has allowed water sports – including sailing (that’s the good news) but only within 5 miles of home (which is the bad news). Even Nant y Glyn is further away than that (7.3 miles). The Statement is as follows: If your preferred form of exercise or leisure is one that can only […]
A Message from the Commodore
Dear member/former member It has been a really difficult start to the year owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, so I hope you and your family have managed to stay safe and well. The virus outbreak is reported to be levelling off, and government is considering how to ease the current lockdown in a staged and […]
AGM 2019
The club close down went well with many hands making short work of getting boats put away for the winter and the buoys in with replacement markers to weather the winter storms. Peter Davies and Paul Oliver manned the large RIB and I ended up in the floppy Avon acting as a ferry boat towing […]
Close Down and AGM 24th November 2019
It’s time to put the Club to bed for the Winter and look back at 2019. We will start at 10.00 with working parties to move boats into the car park from in front of the clubhouse; tidy op the changing rooms and move clothing into the Morgan room; tidy the clothing in the Morgan […]