Largs Sailing Club

Wow – possibly a record turnout for our latest winter talk, with 104 members and guests filling our Lookout Lounge to capacity to hear Dr William Collier, MD of G. L. Watson & Co, and the principal custodian of the Scottish Yachting Archives collection, speak about the rich history of Scottish yachting. From the early 1800’s, Scotland and the Clyde led the world in yacht design and building, creating many beautiful vessels, and developing recreational yachting.

The core collections of the Scottish Yachting Archives are the design archives of G.L. Watson, and William Fife, Scotland’s two pre-eminent yacht designers. The archive also holds material on other designers and yacht building yards, as well as brokerage archives and extensive photographic collections. These are supplemented by an extensive library of yachting periodicals dating back to the mid-nineteenth century.

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A massive thank you to all the volunteers who came in over the first fortnight of January to work on the inside and outside of the clubhouse, all coordinated by John Ridley. Some volunteers committed the whole fortnight, some a few hours, but all this volunteer time added up and enabled us to get a big chunk of work done, and they worked especially hard to enable us to get the carpet shampooed and the place back in use in time to host a member’s funeral.

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Our New Year Race on 4th January, sponsored by Optimum Time, was held in sunny but bracing winter conditions, with close racing, and an impressive turnout of 28 boats, including numerous visitors.

Overall honours went to David and Ian Kent of Largs SC, who claimed victory in their Hurricane 5.9 after a strong and consistent performance, followed by the Solos of Kevin Gibb of Largo Bay and Stuart Gibson of CCC taking third. A standout performance also came from ILCA 6 sailor Kate Shelley of LSC, who was the best-placed youth sailor of the day. Full race results here.

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Wow, a packed Lookout Lounge (approaching 100 members and guests) for a superb talk by circumnavigators Stuart and Anne Letton. Ten years, five oceans, eighty five thousand miles, fifty eight countries, two boats, two motor bikes, camper vans, and a ton of experiences. Somehow doing the transatlantic ARC turned into a trip through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific to New Zealand and Australia, where their monohull Island Packet “Beige Bandit” morphed into a 51’ catamaran, then an amazing Indonesian rally, Covid lockdown in Malaysia, then the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, closing their track back in the Caribbean. Then wanderings up and down the eastern seaboard of the USA – and now in Tunisia!

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