What is the 'social sailing' idea?  It is simply intended to help groups of our members to arrange to meet up to sail models whenever it suits them.  The emphasis is on sailing models for fun and meeting up with other members rather than racing.  This could be at any time of day and on any day of the week.  It could even be at short notice depending on the weather forecast.  Members are free to contact other members on the ‘social sailing’ list to arrange to go sailing at Portishead Marine Lake.  As a courtesy, we ask members to telephone at reasonable times of day only please, or use email.  There is of course no obligation to join in if you are contacted by other people - it's entirely up to you.  
Social sailing is for all kinds of model boats and yachts - racing yachts well as scale sailing models and scale ships etc.  Please note that we don’t operate internal combustion (i.c.) powered models at Portishead though.
To sign up for ‘social sailing’ please tick the relevant box on the annual membership form.  By doing this, you are giving permission to the club to share your name, email address and contact telephone number(s) with other members who have also opted in.  The majority of our members normally join in social sailing.  

Our Facebook group is another quick way to find out about sailing meetings - please click on the 'f' link below.

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Summer Thursday Evenings and Friday Mornings

The Woodspring Model Sailing Club has a long tradition of meeting up at Portishead Lake grounds on the first Thursday evening of each month from June to September for informal sailing.  This is of course weather dependent and we don't usually turn out if it is howling a gale or pouring with rain!  Quite often we get warm, gentle sunny evenings however and then it can make for a very pleasant evening's sailing – why not bring your tea and a chair with you?  
If sufficient members turn out then we will put out the club feather flags etc. and we can put some buoys out on the lake if people would like to have a course to sail, although we won’t run any formal kind of racing.  The normal Thursday evening meeting time is from 4pm to 6pm although members are welcome to come earlier than 4pm or stay later than 6pm if they wish.  
Due to the popularity of these meetings, in 2023 we have added some Friday morning meetings on the third Friday of the summer months as well.  Please see the club calendar page for all of this year’s meeting dates.  We will use the Facebook group to confirm meetings and to make any late changes or cancellations due to weather etc.