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Sailing

Enjoy sailing on the Thames with your own yacht, or acting as crew for someone else? Meet people at our local sailing club who enjoy messing about on the river and also more serious sailors.

Related information

The Port of London Authority website contains useful information such as tide tables and safety information. Follow the link to the Port of London Authority website on the right.

Ahoy Centre

Borthwick Street
Deptford
London SE8 3JY

Ahoy Centre website

The Ahoy Centre is open seven days a week. Telephone for information on courses available.

Contact

Tony Mason 
Tel: 020 8691 7606
Email: admin@ahoy.org.uk                   

Membership fees/cost: youth – £1 per month plus 12 hours volunteer time; call for further details
For ages: 8 to 70+
Beginners, improvers, advanced and elite

Further information

The Ahoy Centre also offers powerboating and rowing.

The Ahoy Centre has an Equal Opportunity and Child Protection policy.

Disabled people have the opportunity to train and compete, either separately or together in the mainstream sessions.

The club has various qualified sports coaches, 30-plus unqualified helpers/coaches and two specific coaches for a junior section. There are also coaches specifically trained to coach disability sport.

Non-members can hire a function room.  

Find out about disabled access and facilities on the DisabledGo website

Greenwich Yacht Club

Peartree Wharf
1 Peartree Way
Greenwich
London SE10 0BW

Greenwich Yacht Club website

Greenwich Yacht Club meets on Tuesday evenings 8pm to 11pm; new members are welcome. Club boating activity takes place during weekends but members are free to use the facilities every day. Club bar is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings.

Contact

Club Secretary
Email: secretary@gyconline.plus.com

Membership fees/cost: single £55 per year, family £70, senior £20; one-off joining fee – £75; moorings – £200 to £300 per year; dinghy storage – £44 per metre per year
For ages: 14 to 80+
Beginners, improvers, advanced

Further information

The Greenwich Yacht Club also offers motorboating and rowing.

The club has a full programme of cruiser and dinghy racing in both winter and summer, according to Royal Yachting Association rules.There is also social sailing. Members without their own boats are encouraged to crew in races to gain experience. The club also has its own navigation school for onshore qualifications.

Facilities for hire: the club has a slipway for launching and recovering boats and equipment for taking cruisers in and out of water. Qualified dinghy sailors who are members can also hire dinghies for a small fee. The club has extensive well-equipped workshops.

The club is open to men and women, has an Equal Opportunity and Child Protection policy, and caters for disabled people. It has three qualified sports coaches and all members are helpers.

Southmere Boating Centre

Binsey Walk
Thamesmead
London SE2 9TU

Southmere Boating Centre website

Southmere Boating Centre operates all year at various times and days or evenings and weekends.

Contact

Giles Brunning
Tel: 020 8310 2452
Email: southmere@boating.fsbusiness.co.uk

For ages: 8 to 100+
Beginners, improvers, advanced, elite

Further information

Southmere Boating Centre also offers powerboating and canoeing or kayaking.

The Centre has an Equal Opportunity and Child Protection policy, and caters for disabled people with:

Disabled people get the opportunity to train and compete and are integrated into mainstreem sessions.

The Centre has 12 qualified sports coaches.

Thamesmead YMCA Venture Centre

Arches
4-5 Harrow Manorway
Thamesmead
London SE2

Contact

George Reynolds OBE
188 Days Lane
Sidcup
Kent DA15 8JU
Tel: 020 8302 5783

Times: all school holidays and weekends
For ages: 5 to 50+
Beginners, improvers, advanced, elite

Further information

The Thamemead YMCA Adventure Centre has an Equal Opportunity and Child Protection policy, and caters for disabled people.

The club has twenty seven Royal Yachting Association instructors, ten unqualified helpers/coaches and twelve specific coaches for the junior section

The club caters for some disabilities.

During inclement weather an indoor programme: glass painting, badge making archery and kite making.



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