Useful sailing links
The following links are divided into categories to make them easier to find.
- Sailing's governing organisations
- General sailing information
- Clubs of interest to Llandegfedd sailors
- Shops and on line chandleries
- Insurance
- Holidays
- Other Links
Sailing's governing organisations
| The International Sailing Federation (ISF) is the overall body that runs sailing all over the world. Look here for rules (down-loadable PDF) and Olympic details. | The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) is Britain's controlling body, and organises Training standards, Portsmouth Handicaps etc | The Welsh Yachting Association (WYA) is the RYA Regional organisation for us. They assist in the allocation of grants, run local training, Youth Squads. |
General Sailing Information
| Plas Menai in North Wales is an excellent place for training. | Pembrokeshire Watersports is a lot nearer than Anglesey, and also has training facilities. They are a combined County and Princes Trust organisation now. | Gwent Adventures is based at Llandegfedd and is the commercial operator on the site. They also offer training. |
| Yachts and Yachting are one of the leading UK sailing magazines | Sailworld UK has a lot of interesting news and views | Dinghy Sailing Magazine is a specialist magazine with lots of dinghy news and technical information |
| Windguru provides weather and wave forecasts around the world. Select SPOT as Llandegfedd in the UK. And ignore the spelling! | BBC Weather provides a good summary of the weather and lets you see the forecast over a number of days. | Boatshed has a collection of weather forecasts, including the Met Office. Its worth learning what you can find on the more complex pages |
Local Clubs
| Cardiff Bay Yacht Club might be tricky to find as the road alter by the season, but it has Junior training and a club house. Winds variable with the city building up around it. | Corus Steel (Margam) Sailing Club has welcomed our sailors to many an Open Meeting. Situated by the M4 next to the Steel works near Port Talbot | Llangorse Sailing Club on the way to Brecon has an annual Youth challenge. After many years of Llangorse ascendency, Llandegfedd now holds the trophy. |
| Penarth Yacht Club has a fine reputation for sailing Enterprises. They have their clubhouse near the pier at Penarth. | Llandegfedd Watersports Centre has planning permission and is actively chasing the necessary permissions and funding to get us a decent set of facilities at Llandegfedd Reservoir. Details and contact data is on this website |
Shops and Chandleries
| Northampton Sailboats is an excellent online source for dinghy sailing clothes and boat bits. Most things arrive one working day after you order them. Break a bit on Sunday, sailing again on Wednesday! | LDC Racing Sailboats are the makers of the RS boats. They have a wide range of generic boat parts and clothes as well as RS specialist bits. | Purple Marine are a midland based shop run by championship winning dinghy sailors. |
| Mailspeed Marine is the UK's largest Mail Order Chandler. As the UK's premier mail order chandler we are very proud of our long tradition of customer service, competitive pricing and after-sales care. |
Insurance
| Noble Marine specialise in dinghy insurance. Your Class Association may provide a discount scheme. | Craft Insure is a low cost specialist boat insurer | Bishop Skinner are another marine insurer. RYA membership gives a discount |
| Newton Crum can be one of the cheapest insurers. Make sure that you sign up for the policy option that suits you. They do not seem to cover RS800 and International Canoes! |
| Mark Warner have a number of centers mostly around the Mediterranean to go sailing with the family. | Sunsail has fleets of modern, well-maintained yachts, watersports of every kind and family-friendly beach clubs in 39 stunning locations around the world. | Minorca Sailing offers a specialist sailing holiday in Menorca. The sailing and windsurfing centre, based at Fornells Bay, is one of the best equipped in the Mediterranean. |
| Wildwind is based in Vassiliki, famous for its fabulous wind conditions, lighter in the mornings and strong cross shore winds most afternoons. For more advanced sailing in higher performance boats, including catamarans |
Leftovers and lucky dip
| The Boat Repair Centre is run by Jo Line south of Bristol. Jo can repair any method of construction from wood to epoxy kevlar composites - although she has specialist knowledge of the RS range and the Fireball class. | Boatshed has a useful page of Weather, plus lots of boats of all types for sail | Water Sports Wales has local events, pictures and more |
| The Tall Ships Youth Trust incorporating the Sail Training Association, is a registered charity dedicated to the personal development of young people aged 16 to 25 through the crewing of Tall Ships. | UK Dinghy Racing is a new website which is designed as an information source about clubs, classes and all you need to know regarding dinghy racing in the UK. | Dinghy Racing This site is designed to be a store of information and articles directly related to racing dinghies, |
 If you are looking for a place to find information on sailing dinghies - then you are in the right place. Eventually we will be doing more than just dinghy sailing - surfing, kayaking, windsurfing, anything you can do in the water we will have here, but for now we are working on dinghy sailing. |