Reminding Club members about our survey currently up at: https://forms.office.com/e/Vs4NaHkbW7
And requesting that you fill it in for us if you haven’t already done so to help us check/update our membership records and focus on what matters most to members as we plan for 2026.
The survey will be live till 31 January, should only take a few minutes to complete and we’re also expecting to leave some paper copies in the Clubhouse which you’ll be able to return to Committee members.
Thank you for supporting the Club and helping us plan for the year ahead.
Notification of the AGM will be issued in due course. We’d hoped to get back to ‘traditional’ November AGMs, but haven’t been able to arrange it for this month and are probably looking at sometime early 2026 now.
Please note also that we’re aware that a substantial amount of website content (past news items/calendar entries, multiple images and a couple of documents) has been lost; we’ll be working to restore/recreate what we can, but are sorry this may take time and we may not be able to recover everything.
Skiff rowers please note that winter rowing times starting from this week are:
* Sundays at 10:00am.
* Thursdays at 2:00pm.
So best not turn up on Thursday evenings like summer because it’ll be dark and Corrag should be safely tucked up in her shed! 😉
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. 🙂
Here’s a really cool photo taken from Schoolhouse Ridge on Beinn a’ Bheithir and sent to us by Tim Parkin showing our skiff Corrag rowing as well as paddleboarders, kayaks etc on Loch Leven. So thanks to Tim for that and allowing us to use it here.
Skiff rowing continues to be as popular as ever with some extra longer rows joining the regular Sunday morning and Thursday evening sessions. For further info please contact Skiff Officer Gordon Milne on .
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!
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.
The race is governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing.
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.
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.
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:
agree to be bound by the Racing Rules of Sailing and the Sailing Instructions.
have their boat adequately insured, with cover of at least £3 million against third party claims.
accept the inherent risks to themselves, their crew, boat and others.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
