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Regatta 2026 Notice of Race

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Here is the formal Notice of Race promised in our previous post More Regatta Info. Once again, please share this far and wide!

Glencoe Regatta 12–13 June 2026

Notice of Race

  1. Glencoe Boat Club will be the Organising Authority for the Glencoe Regatta on Friday 12 June and Saturday 13 June.
  2. Sailing events at the Regatta are governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing.
  3. These sailing events shall comprise:
    1. A feeder (passage) race for monohull yachts only from Oban to Ballachulish Bay on Friday 12 June (expected start time 10:00 BST).
    2. Points series of two or three races for monohull yachts and dinghies on Loch Leven on Saturday 13 June (first start not before 10:00 BST).

    Yachts may enter either or both days, but must compete on both to be eligible for the overall awards of the Ballachulish Slate Trophy and Ray Darker Memorial Trophy.

  4. Yachts shall compete under CYCA handicap and dinghies under RYA Portsmouth Yardstick, with handicaps allocated by Glencoe Boat Club for yachts without CYCA certificates or dinghies without published numbers.
  5. RRS 77 will be modified to permit the participation of boats with non-compliant or no sail numbers.
  6. All skippers (yacht and dinghy) must be aged 18+ on the day(s) of racing.
  7. Friday passage race yachts shall race as a single class with the possibility of additional restricted sail and two-handed prizes depending on numbers.
  8. Saturday Regatta competitors may race as single yacht and dinghy classes or be subdivided further if numbers allow.
  9. Entry fees shall be as follows:
    1. Friday passage race for yachts £15.
    2. Saturday points series for yachts or dinghies £25.

    There will also be a discounted combined fee of £35 for yachts entering both days.

  10. Eligible boats may enter by completing the entry form and submitting the required fees by BACS as specified there. This form contains specific statements that competitors:
    1. agree to be bound by the Racing Rules of Sailing and the Sailing Instructions.
    2. have their boat adequately insured, with cover of at least £3 million against third party claims.
    3. accept the inherent risks to themselves, their crew, boat and others.
  11. Standard entry procedure will close on Wednesday 3 June, after which further entries will only be considered by special application.
  12. Sailing Instructions will be available online at https://glencoeboatclub.co.uk/news/ from Friday 5 June or in printed form at Oban Sailing Club from 08:30 on Friday 12 June, and Glencoe Boat Club from 16:00 on Friday 12 June and 08:30 on Saturday 13 June.

All enquiries to .

More Regatta info

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Posters for the Regatta and our off-the-water children’s competitions. There’ll be a formal Notice of Race etc. for the sailing events in due course as well as further info about whatever necessary, but you can ask us questions via anytime. And please, please share this far and wide! 🙂

Round Balnagowan Race Sailing Instructions and Entry Form

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Here are the Sailing Instructions and Entry Form for this weekend’s race as advised in the Notice of Race:

2025-gbc-round-balnagowan-race-sailing-instructions-and-entry-form (PDF)

We were also going to upload the GPX waypoints for the possible shortened course line described within, but site’s not currently configured to accept .gpx, so please ask for these since we can’t offer them as direct downloads here.

Look forward to seeing you on the day and please remember we’re planning a barbecue at the finish for which you don’t have to be competing. 🙂

‘Lismore’ Muster at Castlebay!

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So the Port Ramsay Muster finally happened in Castlebay after a rough Saturday put paid to the original plan! Peter retreated from just north of Shuna in Fly that day and met Mark, who then also turned back, coming out of Ballachulish Bay in Mingming II. Meanwhile Gregor and Lorraine, who’d gone home after sitting out Storm Floris aboard Tina Louise, had arrived back at GBC ready to go cruising, and Club social sailing’s alive and well after we all set out again the next day and found our way to Castlebay for Thursday!

Photos by Lorraine and Peter.

Round Balnagowan Race 2025

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Notice of Race

  1. Glencoe Boat Club will be the Organising Authority for the Round Balnagowan Race on Saturday 23 August, which may alternatively be run on Sunday 24 August in the event of inclement Saturday weather.
  2. The race is governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing.
  3. The race is from Glencoe Boat Club, round Eilean Balnagowan and back, and is for monohull yachts only, so no dinghies or multihulls. It will start not earlier than 10:00 BST, with full Sailing Instructions and entry forms published on or before Friday 22 August and the decision about whether to run the race as scheduled or postpone also taken that day.
  4. The race is free to enter and open to any appropriate yacht so long as there is a Glencoe Boat Club member as nominated skipper aboard. It will be run as a single class using the Glencoe Boat Club handicap system with ratings/TCF based on appropriate available data issued by Glencoe Boat Club.
  5. Skippers of boats intending to race shall complete and submit an entry form not later than one hour before the start. This form will contain specific statements that sailors:
    1. agree to be bound by the Racing Rules of Sailing and the Sailing Instructions.
    2. have their boat adequately insured, with cover of at least £3 million against third party claims.
    3. accept the inherent risks to themselves, their crew, boat and others.
  6. The sole race prize (for first place on corrected time) is the Wyvern Quaich, to be presented after the race and returned by the winning skipper as requested by GBC for its next running.

All enquiries to .

Lismore (Weekend) Muster 2025

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Lismore (Weekend) Muster, 9–10 August 2025

Venue to be confirmed on Friday 8 August, but probably Bernera Bay (B) or Port Ramsay (R), with less likely alternatives Achadun Bay (A) or Port na Moralachd (M).

Since we’ll be anchored overnight with no visitor moorings, food shopping or pub, participating yachts should be carrying appropriate ground tackle and provisions.

VHF channel for boat-to-boat communication will be 72.

Oban tide times & heights (all times BST):

Saturday 9 August
00:48 1.1
06:53 3.6
13:01 0.9
19:11 3.9

Tide ebbing at Ballachulish Bridge from c.07:53 to 13:56

Sunday 10 August
01:25 0.9
07:26 3.7
13:33 0.7
19:46 4.1

Tide flooding at Ballachulish Bridge from c.14:31 to 20:46

Please contact Peter at or the GBC Sail & Power WhatsApp group for further info and/or to let us know you’re coming.

Ardgour Muster 2025

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Happy to report that our second Club muster of the season had actual boats as well as people attending with two boats and three crews making it to Ardgour yesterday. So we had Fly with Peter and guest crew Twig, Caron and Amanda followed there by Prudence with her own crew of Matt and Pam plus Gregor and Lorraine from Tina Louise after they left their boat with radar half-fitted to finish today. A nice meal and fire alarm (!) at the Inn at Ardgour was enjoyed by all, after which Fly left in time to battle the first of the ebb tide through Ballachulish Bridge and Prudence stayed for the night. Most of the muster (now three boats and two-and-a-quarter crews) then spontaneously reconvened at GBC this afternoon with Peter returning to Fly to retrieve his camera while Gregor was up Tina Louise’s mast (assisted by Matt below) to finish the radar installation before we enjoyed a hot drink and some food in the Clubhouse. So a good day/weekend for people getting together, and looking forward to seeing more members join the fun!

Next muster is the Lismore Weekend Muster (overnight anchorage still likely to be Bernera Bay or Port Ramsay) of 9–10 August, with your main contact for info etc.




News update, ‘sailing’ programme and Ardgour Muster

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So here’s a quick update on recent Club activities followed by a reminder of this year’s remaining muster/race programme and more detailed Ardgour Muster info…

While no boats made the trip across the loch for the Camas na h-Eirghe/Lochleven Seafood Café midsummer evening muster on 19 June, we had 12 people representing a broad range of Club interests at the Café for a very convivial evening. So still highly successful in terms of bringing people together for an enjoyable Club event, and we’ll be looking at how to make this work better *with* boats next time!

Wednesday night sailing is still happening, albeit very much towards the ‘informal’ end of the scale and with some Wednesdays seeing no activity mainly due to less attractive conditions. But remember we’re rebuilding here after a period without organised activity and Rome wasn’t built in a day!

Skiff rowing continues to be as popular as ever with some longer rows (e.g. 25 June up the loch through the Caolas nan Con narrows) supplementing the regular Thursday/Sunday programme. But the slipway winch is also unfortunately out of action since that day and may be for some time, making rowing currently dependent on other means of launching Corrag. So for the time being Skiff Officer Gordon Milne will be updating rowers via WhatsApp on a day-by-day basis as to whether rowing’s on or not.

Note that some other launching/recovery activities (e.g. the Omega dinghy) may also be compromised by the winch unavailability, but not all as severely as for Corrag, and we do at least have other boats available for sailing nights.

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And now that reminder of our remaining muster/race programme:

Sat 26 July: Ardgour Day Muster (with Sun 27 July as ‘poor weather’ reserve day)
Sat 9/Sun 10 August: Lismore Weekend Muster (probable venue either Port Ramsay or Bernera Bay TBA depending on weather)
Sat 23 August: Round Balnagowan (Yacht) Race (with Sun 24 August as ‘poor weather’ reserve day)

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Ardgour Day Muster

Making use of similar tide times to our former ‘Ardgour Double’ day of yacht racing there and back, this brings an interesting ‘mini adventure’ through the tidal gates at Ballachulish Bridge and Corran Narrows with visitors’ moorings and *possibly* food ashore (not sure pub times play nicely with tides this year?) but, as a muster rather than racing event, is of course open to Club craft of all kinds.

Predicted tide times are for the scheduled date of Saturday 26 July and would of course be a little later on the following (reserve) day.

Oban tides (BST)
HW 07:52 3.7
LW 13:50 0.7
HW 19:53 4.0

Note that these are near-spring tides making awareness of the following gates (all times BST and predicted approximations) all the more important:

The tide is favourable out through Ballachulish Bridge from 08:52 till 14:38.
The tide is favourable northwards through Corran from 13:53 till 19:58.
The tide is favourable southwards back through Corran from 19:58*.
The tide is favourable back in through Ballachulish Bridge from 14:38 till 20:53.

*With approximately five nautical miles from Corran Narrows back to Ballachulish Bridge via Cuil-cheanna Spit buoy or four cutting the corner as tightly as you’d want to go, most participants may wish to leave Ardgour a little earlier against the last of the northbound tide.

Sunset is at approximately 21:47 BST.

We welcome participants of all experience levels and can ‘buddy’ anyone unsure of the ground or tides.

We can do a pre-departure onshore briefing on the day if requested.

To express interest or ask further questions, please contact Peter Duggan on .

Lochleven Seafood Café Muster 2025

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Our Thursday 19 June Camas na h-Eirghe/Lochleven Seafood Café evening muster is fast approaching and we’re hoping to see a good turnout. We now need to know how many people expect to be joining us there so the café can plan for the evening.

We have tables booked for 7:45pm that evening, which should hopefully allow both people coming from work to attend and boats to return to GBC in midsummer daylight/twilight.

It’s on a ‘skiff’ night because we were unable to book a Wednesday ‘sailing’ night, but musters are for all types of boats and we hope to see at least a skiff-load of rowers there.

There should be a mooring available that we can raft up on if necessary.

While we’ve planned a muster for boats and would obviously like to see boats heading across, it’s equally appropriate to go by road if you can’t take a boat and/or the weather’s not suitable. It’s very much a social event either way and something we hope to repeat in future years, so please try to support and make this first one a success if you can.

What we really need to establish now is an idea of likely numbers, so we’re both polling you via social media/email to gauge interest and requesting that you contact Vice Commodore Peter Duggan direct on with numbers of crew/guests if you have definite plans to attend. If you have further questions, please also address these to Peter.

Thank you.