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A sailing club on the Cam???

If you've seen the River Cam in Cambridge, you may find it hard to believe there's a sailing club on such a narrow river. It's a little wider where we sail and we have a good stretch of water that's clear of trees. The CSC has thrived on the Cam since 1899.

Enterprise dinghy
Jaguar 21 cruiser
Scorpion sailing dinghy

Where is it?

The CSC is just north of Cambridge, England, at the hamlet of Clayhithe near Waterbeach. It's the nearest sailing club to the city of Cambridge, set in spacious grounds along the banks of the Cam. See directions & map.

More information

Click on any of the following items to find out more about the club, it boats and activities.

Sailing Programme 2010

This displays the CSC sailing programme.

Weather links

Links to 3 different sites that give weather forecasts for Cambridge, including wind strength and direction.

Photo Album

CSC Web Photo Album, started with contributions from Bob High September 97.

Sailfish Open Weekend

Information about the annual Sailfish Open we hold in June.

Sailing links

Links of interest to sailors on the Cam and Great Ouse or living in the Cambridge.

How to navigate the CSC website:
• Click the large CSC flag to return to this page
• More information about navigating these pages
The CSC website has been at this address since January 1997, with only one break, which was beyond our control and luckily out-of-season, when CamNet was down from the end of October 2003 till early February 2004.
John Harris has looked after it throughout.

 

CSC clubhouse & main lawn Topper dinghy CSC dinghy park
Main lawnTopper actionDinghy park
Quick index of reference areas:
    • Sailing Programme 2010
    • Contacting the club
    • Finding the club
    • Training
    • Boat security
    • Sailing links (RYA etc)
    • Cambridge Weather links
    • Photo Album index
    • Cam Sailfish Weekend
    • Racing yacht "Volunteer"
Children's sports
Sunday, 29 August, 4.00 pm, at the CSC
Barbecue at club
Sunday, 29 August, 6.00 pm, at the CSC
Quick access to recently changed or new pages (other than new CamSail News issues) in reverse date order:
4 Aug 2010 Sailing links Sailing links to new Great Ouse (inc Cam) website
2 Aug 2010 Sailing links New links to groups & forums inc Facbook Group of young CSC members
12 Apr 2010 Training & Racing Link to free race rules game
19 Feb 2010 Training Changes for 2010 season
19 Feb 2010 Racing Adding CSC's CYSL win in 2009, to make total of 11 out of 14
12 Jul 2009 Volunteer New photos from CSC 110th anniversary celebrations
16 Apr 2009 Weather Links New link to weather page of "time and date.com"
16 Apr 2009 Weather Links BBC weather link updated, new page has useful map sequence
14 Feb 2009 Racing Changes for 2009 season
14 Feb 2009 Training Changes for 2009 season
14 Feb 2009 Sailfish Weekend Updated details
10 Feb 2009 Weather Links & Sailing Links Broken links to flood warnings repaired
  4 Nov 2008 Anglia Afloat Articles on CSC & where to buy mag near club
26 Oct 2008 Tribute to Ruth Macfarlane (90th birthday speech) Ruth died 25 Oct 08
16 Jun 2008 Sailing Links Cambridge Motor Boat Club added
14 May 2008 1996-2002 news index Index now includes Oct-Dec 2002
14 May 2008 Members' Newletters Apr-Dec 2002 Formatting corrected
10 May 2008 Photo 37 Photo from Volunteer page added to photo library
  9 May 2008 Racing yacht "Volunteer" New page under construction
  5 May 2008 Weather Links Cam flood warning added (still on Sailing Links too)
  5 May 2008 Weather Links Weather Channel links repaired
  3 Feb 2008 Sailfish Weekend Updated details
 1 Feb 2008 Programme 2008 Sailing programme for 2008
 1 Feb 2008 Training Changes for 2008 season
12 Jan 2008 Weather links New link to weatherguru, wind & wave forecast specialist
18 Jul 2007 CSC video links New page with link to Fachney video
 CYCL (Cambs Youth Sailing League) 2002
Cambs Youth Sailing League

 

CamSail News
News about the club, edited by Henry Bird

CamSail News is now in PDF format. Most files are between 190 and 500 KB (Jan 2008 is 1.3MB). To download them, click on the appropriate month or small flag CSC flag bullet below.


Members’ E-Newsletters (PDFs)

CSC flag bullet   July 2010

CSC flag bullet   June 2010

CSC flag bullet   May 2010

CSC flag bullet   April 2010

CSC flag bullet   March 2010

CSC flag bullet   February 2010

CSC flag bullet   January 2010

CSC flag bullet   December 2009

CSC flag bullet   November 2009

CSC flag bullet   October 2009

CSC flag bullet   September 2009

CSC flag bullet   August 2009


CSC flag bullet   Newsletter index back to January 2003*

CSC flag bullet   News index December 1996 to December 2002†


*E-newsletters older than one year are removed this home page. Henry's PDF newsletters go back to January 2003, see the full index.

Even earlier CSC e-newsletters from May to December 2002 (edited by John Harris) are still available on the website in the OLD NEWS INDEX page. The index on that page also links to 42 news pages that were created before there was a monthly newsletter, the oldest dating from December 1996.

Web site originally created by John Harris, Dec 96.
Info on site construction and management