Welcome To Beaver Sailing Club

Beaver Sailing Club is the place for you, whether you want to learn to sail, join in our club racing, or develop your skills to competitive levels. Our Training School and high standard of club racing can help get you to where you want to be and if it’s simply fun on the water, membership gains you access to our water pretty much all year round.

Beaver Sailing Club is located on Southfield Reservoir, alongside the Aire and Calder Canal, near the East Yorkshire town of Snaith, with road access from the A614.

The sailing water consists of two reservoirs of approximately 80 and 40 acres, with launching via ramps and jetties. The larger of the reservoirs is used for racing, the season starting in March and finishing at the end of December. Racing takes place on Sundays, Wednesday nights in summer and Bank Holiday Mondays, and is open to all members. For members not wishing to race, the smaller reservoir to open at all times for cruising.

Facilities include a clubhouse with changing rooms and showers, a galley for hot drinks and snacks, and a lounge area for relaxing. There are ample car parking spaces and a large boat park.

Beaver SC is a RYA registered training school and provides courses to teach and improve sailing skills, using club boats and qualified instructors. The training school provides a number of dinghies to learn on and welcomes non-members too, on payment of a low weekly fee.

Now an RYA Volvo Champion Club we promote Junior participation and Junior Racing and run high quality coaching sessions throughout the sailing season. There is a Junior Race each Sunday (excluding Frostbite series) and the annual Junior Regatta has become a hugely popular event.

You’ll find a friendly welcome at Beaver Sailing Club for all ages and sailing abilities, for families, children and adults. It’s a great place to learn to sail, join in our racing schedule, just potter or meet friends! But don’t take our word for it…come and see for yourself.

Paul Hobson: “The best place to learn to sail. Jim (Hunt) and I got to World Championship standard at Beaver Sailing Club”.