Welcome to Ripon SC

A warm welcome awaits you at Ripon SC, whether you are a seasoned club racer, or a complete novice.

RSC is an RYA Teaching Establishment, and offers a wide range of dinghy and powerboat related courses to it’s members. The family friendly nature of the club is also recognised by our RYA Champion Club status. Club members are able to enjoy access to the facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and there’s a packed programme of on and off the water activities. Racing takes place on Wednesday afternoons and evenings throughout the summer, and on Sundays all year round.

Learn to Sail at RSC

At Ripon Sailing Club we offer you a quick, easy and safe way to learn to sail. We provide a range of courses to help you progress and make the most of your time afloat, whatever your age, ability or aspirations. We are a recognised RYA training establishment and the courses are taken by fully qualified RYA instructors who are volunteers. Our courses are for members only and the new programme of learn to sail courses will commence in Spring 2018. Dates are now published on the calendar and bookings are now open.

A Few Words from the Commodore...

I think all of us who hosted PTBO 2018 at the club last weekend have probably just about recovered. On behalf of the Committee and the 250+ people who came along to the event THANK YOU to everyone who pitched in and helped out, and particularly to Peter for master minding it all.

We welcomed around 70 new members to the club as a result of the day, and many of them will be taking part in our training programmes shortly. Thanks go to Jennie and Dianne for getting all the applications for membership and training processed so quickly – we were able to match everyone’s requirements up with places on the day and I know that this took a huge amount of effort. If you are an existing member please welcome our new members to the club if you see them looking a bit lost, and to our new members ‘get down and join in’!

Finally some really fantastic news from the Y&J side of the house. We are now a ‘British Youth Sailing Recognised Club’ – this new status replaces the RYA Champion Club status, which ended, nationally, at the end of March. We are one of the first clubs to be awarded the status and I am incredibly grateful to Fiona Spence for the amazing submission made to the RYA, which showed just how focussed we are on family activity and the development of a life long love of sailing. Fiona has also negotiated a very promising sponsorship deal with local garage Mill Volvo. Mill have kindly agreed to sponsor all our junior/youth activities this year which is fantastic news. We look forward to working with Mark Tranmer and his team.

Enjoy the sunshine

Bernard