Solo’s at King George Sailing Club
Please find below the link to enter, alongside the NoR and SI’s.
Entry is online only, no entry on the day.
King George Gallop 2024-Notice of Race
King George Gallop 2023 Winner & KGSC Member Vince Horey with crew Richard Abendstern
Come and race against King George’s best on January 20th 2024! Entry is now open via the Selden SailJuice website. Press the button below to enter now! The NoR can also be found below.
President Alan Horey's Passing
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the death of our Club President and friend, Alan Horey, who passed away on Friday. Alan had been a valued member of King George for many years and will be truly missed.
Details of Alan's funeral are yet to be released, but we will ensure that these are circulated nearer the time.
We will have a 2-minute silence at the start of this weekends Club Championships to remember Alan.
Our thoughts are with Alan's family at this time.
ILCA Open Meeting Write Up
Learn more about the ILCA Open Meeting held on the 18th June here.
Champagne Sailing Conditions @ King George
Near perfect conditions on Sunday 25/06/2023
Solo Open Meeting Write Up
Bright skies and a fickle breeze met the Solo sailors at King George Allen Eastern Region Open Meeting. With thunderstorms forecast for the afternoon it was decided to run three back-to-back races before the storms came.
Learn all about it here.
ILCA and Solo Open Meeting - 18th June 2023
Want to race with KGSC’s finest? Have an ILCA or Solo? Why not join us for our Open Meeting on the 18th June 2023. NoR can be found below. SI’s to follow. Entry is online only. Please click on the button below to register and make payment.
Please also take a look at our safety briefing.
King George Gallop 2023- Write Up and Results
King George’s own Vince Horey and Richard Abendstern win the KGG 2023
A full write up and the results can be found below. Click the button for more info.
KGSC- A Year in Review
Take a look at KGSC’s year in review, as published on yachts and yachting.
A couple of great videos from our KGSC Cadets!
Keen to see what our Cadet Club gets up to? Have a look at these great videos.
Selden SailJuice Winter Series- King George Sailing Club- 21st January 2023
The last edition of the King George Gallop.
KGSC is gearing up to host the King George Gallop on January 21st. Registration can be found on the Selden SailJuice Winter Series website.
In the meantime, take a look around our website, look at our webcam and weather station and start planning your trip here.
Voting now open for RYA Club of the Year 2023!
Voting is now open! Please click the link below and vote for @kinggeorgesc @kgsccadetclub
Once you've voted share!
RYA Club of the Year 2023- Get set to vote!
The RYA has officially announced this years nominations. King George is up against some great contenders that have large memberships all willing to vote for their own. As such, we need all the votes that we can get.
Voting opens on December 1st and can be done here.
Once you have voted, please share this link far and wide. We need everyones help.
Trophy Return
If you have any trophies that were awarded last year, now is the time to polish them up and return so that we can have them engraved for the next holder.
Please do this with haste so that we can have this done prior to the AGM on December 4th.
RYA Club of the Year 2023 Finalist
KGSC are very pleased to hear that we are a finalist in the RYA Club of the Year 2023!
The main awards will be held at the RYA Dinghy and Watersports Show in February 2023. Make sure to get your tickets for Saturday 25th.
Voting will start in December, keep an eye out for voting details, we will be displaying them ASAP!
Webcam now live.
We now have a webcam! Below is the live footage. The webpage can be found here. We have also made some updates to the weather forecasts, you now have access to windy and wind guru (embedded in, rather than hyperlinks).
We are still working through some bugs with the live feed, so it may drop out occasionally. Needless to say, a big thanks to John for getting this done.
Duties now live on Members Site
Members, duties are now live on the members site. Login, select ‘Portal’ from the top menu, followed by ‘Duty Roster’ on the right hand menu. You can then filter and select the duty type you wish to volunteer for.
Notice of AGM
I hope that you can join us for this years AGM.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of King George V Reservoir Sailing Club LTD will be held on the 4th December at 14:30, in person at the club and via Zoom online for the following purposes-
To approve the minutes from the previous AGM held on the 5th December 2021.
To approve the 2021-2022 annual club accounts.
To present the activities of the club over the past year.
To elect council members and flag officers.
To appoint a reporting accountant.
To submit proposals to the membership.
I hope that you will all be able to join us and celebrate 50 years of KGSC.
Gold Award for KGSC against Single Use Plastic
I can proudly say, KGSC has been awarded the Gold Award by The Green Blue and The Final Straw Foundation for our fight against Singly Use Plastic.
This means that we recycle what we can, reducing and avoiding the use of plastic at our Club.
We are only the second Club in the country to be awarded Gold.
New Membership Database
Calling all members, we now have a new membership database, Sailing Club Manager. You should have all received your login credentials. If you have not, please email secretary@kgsc.org.uk and I can redistribute these to you.
Going forwards, this new database should save the Club money and time, along with a host of other benefits.
The web address to access the database is members.kgsc.org.uk
