• 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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This year's plans

Brighton Belle's cruising season is well under way, and we are enjoying a great summer exploring the coastline, lochs and islands of western Scotland and the Hebrides. In September heading back via the Atlantic coast of Ireland. 

Brighton Belle passing Ailsa Craig, on her way to Troon -  the first leg of her 2022 sailing season

Our members are delighted to once again have the opportunity to sail on our great ocean-going yacht at affordable rates - and Brighton Belle will be back in her element and doing what she does best: sailing with different skippers and crews each week.

We still have a few spaces for prospective members to sail with us this summer. See our sailing calendar, and to find out more about Brighton Belle Sailing Club and how to join, please see our website or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Our 2022 cruising area on the west coast of Scotland - of course as always subject to the prevailing weather conditions

Here are some of the delights that await us... Do This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you'd like to join us for a day, a week or a lifetime of wonderful sailing. 

Tinkers Hole An iconic anchorage on the SW of Mull

Loch Scavaig, Isle of Skye

View from the Bunessan Argyll Arms Hotel on the Ross of Mull taken a few minutes before midnight

David Balfours Bay on Erraid Mull - the setting for Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped

Apart from great sailing, Brighton Belle also has a reputation for 'never knowingly being underprovisioned' ... We enjoy good food and drink, good conversation - all adds to the experience. Read some of our members' blogs for more on what we are doing.

 

 

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.  

To find out more about membership, or to come for a sail with us as a provisional member, contact our This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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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