To conclude the 2018 WS Racing Award Ceremony, John King, a  WS Trustee, told everybody about a new prize which is called The Peter Hazlewood Trophy, named after a long-standing member of Chipstead Sailing Club  who died during the year and, in whose memory, friends and family had  made donations to Wealden Sailability.  John  reminisced… Read More


The Certificates and Prizes were handed out to the winners by the Wealden Sailability Trustee responsible for WS Racing activities , Mike Coleman,  in front of an enthusiastic crowd who applauded the winners’ achievements. John King, another WS Trustee, addressed the crowd (below) about a new award for which WS Racers will be able to compete … Read More


What a lucky fleet of sailors you are at WS Racing!! Another superb autumnal day….and the light breeze stayed around just long enough to enable all the entrants to complete the race. Unfortunately the wind, coming from the NE was forecast to be coming from NW, so setting the course was delayed so as to try… Read More


After the success of the Drascombe Lugger which had been donated to Wealden Sailability by one of our long term sailors, it was decided after several discussions to buy a 2nd Drascombe, but this time a brand new Drascombe Longboat. When they found out about it, the Friends of Pepenbury said they were very keen… Read More


You were a brave lot today! Whilst the weather conditions on paper were absolutely perfect, it was certainly a chilly one. The race box was cold enough so I can imagine that it was pretty nippy on the water. On the plus side, the wind was almost perfect. Even better was that so many of… Read More


Jon joined us fairly recently, but after a couple of runs out on the RS Venture with one of our volunteer helms (as seen in this gallery), he soon progressed to sailing the servo assisted Liberty on his own…..well OK a certain brave lady sits on the back, just in case anything happens..!!… Read More