Stone Sailing Club

Located on the south bank of the River Blackwater where the river reaches two kilometres wide at high tide and the open sea is just a few miles away, Stone Sailing Club offers great on-the-water action at any state of the tide.
Run by and for its members, the club is in St Lawrence Bay, near Southminster
 in Essex, and has a long tradition of being family-friendly – it’s said that many of today’s leading members practically grew up here! A busy committee works hard to promote and facilitate amateur yacht and dinghy racing and sailing, rowing and canoeing. Along with top-notch tuition and a busy calendar of social events all year round, Stone Sailing Club offers storage ashore for dinghies, plus a limited number of swinging moorings on the River Blackwater for squibs and cruisers.  
The ability to launch from the beach at all points of tide makes this club an attractive proposition for the Slow and Fast Dinghy classes – the latter features fleets of K6s, 505s, B14s, ISOs, RSs Musto Skiffs, Laser 4000 and 5000s, 470s, Hornets and 29ers, while the former includes K1s, Snipes, Wayfarers, RS Varios, 420s and Phantoms.  Windsurfers, Symmetric Cats, Superfast craft and Squibs are also active here,  and Stone Sailing Club has a substantial Cruiser class too.
Off the water, a full galley service is available through all sailing events, and free camping is available within the grounds. 
To find out more, visit www.stonesc.org.uk
The River Blackwater forms the northern boundary of the Dengie Hundred, a peninsula of ancient farmland designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and made even more remarkable by its salt marshes and milky skies. Not only is the water here great for racing, but the Dengie has its own weather sub-climate, with the prevailing winds from the south-west resulting in more good weather than many other parts of the country.