• La Gomera beach

  • Liz trimming

  • Isle de Houat lunchtime anchorage

  • Early morning hoist

  • Dolphins alongside BB

  • All sails up

  • Sailing around La Gomera

  • Navigating in Amsterdam

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Who are we?

The members of Brighton Belle Sailing Club (featured in this article in the January 2016 edition of Yachting Monthly) share ownership of a beautiful blue water cruising yacht and sail her to wonderful destinations, both near and far. 

We are all hobbyists who love messing about in boats. We arrange extended yearly cruises together, giving us the opportunity of sailing in company and exploring more distant sailing areas. 

The good news is you can sail with us as an owner/member or as a provisional member of Brighton Belle Sailing Club. 

Brighton Belle is our 55 foot ketch-rigged yacht. She is a very seaworthy, well maintained Oyster 55, with luxury accommodation for up to 8 people and a fantastic range of equipment to make cruising and living on board a delight. See more about Brighton Belle.

We all pay sailing fees only when we are on board. These are not for profit but set to cover all of the ongoing costs of boat ownership and maintenance. In this way, we get to sail Brighton Belle together for a very small fraction of the cost of normal yacht ownership. This is a yacht share with a big difference.

Every year we take her on a long cruise to destinations such as the Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly, Ireland, Western Isles of Scotland, France, Spain, the Canary Isles, etc. Read about some of the previous cruises of Brighton Belle here.  Future plans include cruising to the Faroe Islands and Norway, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Azores and....well that's where you come in. Join us and choose where you want to sail. 

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Extensive sailing experience is not required, just a passion for sailing in beautiful places with friends. 

Brighton Belle is jointly owned by all of our members and membership shares are still available. To join and own an equal share requires a once-only payment of £4000 and, as a member, you will be able to sail with Brighton Belle on as many of our arranged cruises as you have time for, all at very low cost.  For the small print see how to join Brighton Belle Sailing Club.

As a member you will be encouraged to develop your sailing skills with the support of our experienced skippers or mates, and if you feel this is for you, you could be one of the skippers yourself when you are ready.

Why not come and meet us for a day sail on Brighton Belle, to see if it's for you? See our events list for details of the planned day sails coming up and let the skipper know you would like to join in. 

Thanks to one of our guests, Shawn Vader, for this video taken during the 2016 Royal Escape Race.

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This year's adventures....

Brighton Belle has set off on her next adventure! After a busy maintenance period, and with a brand new Yankee foresail, our shake-down sail took Brighton Belle to Holland over Easter. She came back to Brighton for a quick turnaround to take part in the "Dieppe Dash", a popular race over the early bank holiday weekend.

 Summer programme: Channel Islands, West Country, France, Spain and Portugal

In late May Brighton Belle set sail to the Channel Isles, spending a few weeks exploring there, and then heading to Plymouth and the West Country. From there, she turned left towards Brest and then pottered along the West coast of France, stopping off for weekly crew changes, for example at Saint-Nazaire and La Rochelle. Many beautiful harbours, anchorages, islands and rivers lie along this splendid coast - and the food isn't bad in these parts either!

In mid-August BB gave her 'Au Revoirs' to France, to sail along the bold, mountainous green coast between France and Galicia. Little visited by yachts, this is a very rugged coastline, especially when the the 2,560m high Picos mountains are in the background. BB will call in for changeovers at Bilbao, A Coruna and Vigo to give successive crews the opportunity to explore the delights of this area- harbours, beautiful bays and coves, food, wine and of course plenty of wonderful sailing.

Read more about a few of these cruises on our blog page. There are still some spaces......   ;-) 

Autumn and winter: Canaries cruising

After several weeks pottering around the Spanish Rias, BB will continue into Portugal, heading to Lisbon, then the Algarve. From Lagos BB will cross over to Lanzarote in November, perhaps calling in at Madeira en route. She will then spend the next few weeks in and around Lanzarote, hosting a variety of crews keen to escape the dark dreary UK winter.

In January, after a couple of weeks routine maintenance, BB will explore the other Canary Islands: Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Gomera and La Palma, providing many opportunities for some great sailing, walking and relaxation in the winter sunshine.

Join us!

Please see our cruising programme for more details of our plans. We welcome new members, and we have a provisional membership scheme which enables guests to join one or more of our cruises over a six-month period. Please explore our website or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more details.

 

 

 

 

 

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