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Friday Evening Social on the Light Ship 25th April 2025
Thus far, The Haslar Yacht Club members have enjoyed an excellent start to 2025. With good attendance to the evening talks, and two brilliant rallies to East Cowes and Lymington. Little wonder that the first Friday evening social of the year proved to be very popular. With a slightly different format from last year, we just about filled the Light Ship. With thirty attendees enjoying each other's company either in the fresh More »
29 Apr 2025
Frostbite Rally to East Cowes, 5th/6th April 2025
If this was meant to be a Frostbite Rally , someone forgot to turn off the sunshine! With blue skies, warm breezes, and plenty of vitamin D, our first rally of the season felt more like summer than early spring — not that anyone was complaining. A more apt title would surely be the Sunburn rally? A few eager crews (ours included) couldn't resist the lure of fair weather and made More »
21 Apr 2025
Workshop on Close Quarters Berthing
John Walker and Jonathan Clare gave a very helpful joint presentation on Close Quarter Berthing to a well-attended talk in Haslar Marina conference room John said this was a difficult talk to give, as so many of the members present had many years of experience between them and therefore it was difficult to pitch the talk at the right level. John Walker started with a very useful comment about getting to know your own boat as all boats react differently More »
19 Apr 2025
Ella in the Artic - HYC talk 21st March
What an extraordinary young lady Ella is! Lets start with some background she gave us early last year as she was preparing to set sail for the Artic. Yeva is her 38 foot, 1978 built steel hulled yacht which was quite a challenge to acquire and even more so to find sponsorship for and get ready for this enormous challenge. (See write up from her previous talk for more details - More »
4 Apr 2025
Upcoming events
| May 2 |
18:00 - Talk: "How to enjoy HYC event…This talk is intended for new and existing members. It |
| May 3 |
New Members and New Berth Hold…The destination may be |
| May 23-24 |
Poole & Weymouth long weekend Rally » Fri 23rd May: PoolePoole & Weymouth 23rd to 27th |
| May 24-26 |
Poole & Weymouth long weekend Rally » Sat 24th & Sun 25th May: Weymo…Poole & Weymouth 2025 23rd to 27th May |
| May 26-27 |
Poole & Weymouth long weekend Rally » Mon 26th May: PoolePoole & Weymouth 2025 23rd to 27th May |
| May 30 |
18:00 - Planning meeting: for the Cros…Planning meeting for the Midsummer Cross Channel |
| June 14-15 |
Northney Marina, Chichester Ha…Northney Marina, Chichester Harbour Rally |
| June 20-29 |
Midsummer Cross Channel Cruise… |