Deben Yacht Club

15/12/2025

Wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and looking forward to another fantastic sailing season in 2026.

15/09/2025

Our autumn races 3n4 were abandoned due to thunder and lightening. My onboard camera captured a lightening strike close to home in video and then a series of frame grabs. It was the right choice to abandon and head straight to the slipway.

07/09/2025

We had a Southerly 16-29mph breeze for the start of the autumn series at DYC today, and a course that allowed for a couple of fast reaches. This is me riding the stern wave of Baz n Ali's RS400 from 14 to C. The sailing was a lot of fun today 😎, blue sky and breeze.

30/07/2025

09/07/2025

Float Your Boat sessions are great fun. Relaxed, safe sailing on the river Deben. For more information go to our website wwwdebenyachtclub.co.uk

17/06/2025

Come to Woodbridge Regatta and enjoy a free sail on Sunday 29th June. Taster sessions from 2.00 to 4.30 pm at Deben Yacht Club.

04/06/2025

Coffee Morning Tuesday 10 June for 10.0 to 12.0 - all welcome. Coffe, tea and homemade cakes. In aid of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice.

01/06/2025

Sunshine and a steady southerly breeze helped get a good turn out for the DYC Kingfisher cup, a race started down river in a nice wide open area past Methersgate. The clip shows the busy start and the boats tacking close to the west bank to stay away from the flood tide.
Thanks go to the OOD, AOD, safety teams, galley and bar 👍.

20/04/2025

Quite a good turn out for DYC Saturday racing with a cold easterly 16 gusting 27mph.
The first clip is the start of the second race with a short beat to mark A and then a broad reach down the river.
The second clip is going around mark 14 with the Phantom nearly capsizing in front of me so I had to go around his mast. I hardly glance at him as I take advantage of this little slip up 😁and speed away on the next leg.
It has been a windy start to the year and I am getting to use my smaller 80% size sail quite often already. It lacks the power of the standard sail on the reaches, but makes up for that by letting me be in control.

15/04/2025

Spring has arrived and we had a good turn out for Saturday's spring series racing. We had blue skies and a gusty, shifty SW wind. The video clip below shows the start of the first race with me struggling to get off the line in a hole in the wind. Then making great progress through the fleet on the first beat by staying close to Kyson point, out of the worst of the tide. I went from 'Oh dear, I'm last' to checking the course card and reciting the course to myself as I lead the fleet away. It was a lovely day on the river Deben.

31/03/2025

Hoorah, spring has arrived and we're back racing on the river Deben. Our second weekend racing had a blustery westerly wind, making it very tricky. With the wind gusting over 30mph we mostly decided to tack around instead of gybing at the leeward mark in video clip 1. This was my first windy race outing with my smaller 80% sail and I just managed to sail the course. I wouldn't have managed with the full size one.
In the second clip we have 4 boats going in 3 different directions meeting in the middle.
It was a lot of fun on a sunny cool March afternoon.

16/03/2025

Want To Learn To Sail? Aged 10-18?
Onboard Course for complete beginners at Deben Yacht Club, Woodbridge. 6 sessions starting 16th May - 18 July. £30 for non members. Email: Graham Seabrook - [email protected]