Cruising to East Haven
After a week of cold, sleety weather the sailing gods granted a beautiful sunny day for the Club’s first significant cruise of the season, to East Haven near Carnoustie. Five boats made the trip,...
Category: Adventures
12 October 2015
Sailing There’s still some sailing left, with 2 more Sunday sails scheduled in the program this month and the Royal Tay winter series starting this Sunday also – see details at http://www.royaltay.org/on-the-water/open-sailing-events/ Conditions were decent...
Lunan Bay Cruise
Four boats, 3 Wayfarers and Mr Bump, set off at 9.30 on Saturday morning, accompanied by Simon Ogston’s Bull 7000 keel boat from Tayport with 2 DSC members aboard. After initially drifting downriver on...
Caledonian Canal Cruise
Locks and lochs, swing bridges, camping, sailing and rowing, rain and midges and 6 gallant sailors from Dundee Sailing Club After a 1st night’s camp on the banks of Loch Linnhe at Corpach the...
New helms cruise
Sunday we had half-a-dozen boats on the water, an early start making up for the cancelled Newburgh trip. An enjoyable trip past the Pool sands at Tenstsmuir with some promising performances from newer helms...
Through the bridges, with some interesting weather
Another enjoyable sail on Sunday with 4 Wayfarers heading upriver with the tide, tacking in lovely conditions up under both bridges before turning back for a stop at “Davey’s beach” (the beach next to Davey Anderson’s...
Dolphins and Stormy weather
A wee update after an enjoyable sail today. It was the Tay sailing weekend hosted by the Royal Tay but only 1 DSC Wayfarer entered the racing – myself and Kerstin. We opted out...
Weekend 24 May 2015: St. Andrews trip
We had a good time this weekend, with Training for Level 3 and Day Sailing. The level 3 covered advanced sailing techniques, and builds on the level 1 / 2 course that many Members...
Weekend report 18 May 2015
Ten members turned up on Sunday some to do maintenance and some to sail. It was thought that “Port Allan Picnic” should be left for another day, but two boats went out on the...
Anstruther Muster
3 wayfarers, accompanied by the safety boat, emerged from the Tay estuary on Friday for a voyage south to join the Anstruther Muster. As it was considered a bit risky it wasn’t offered as...