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MARCHWOOD YACHT CLUB
Possibly the Solent’s best kept secret, founded in 1963 Marchwood Yacht Club is a self-help Club located at the top of Southampton Water. At MYC we try to maximise the skills and talents within the membership in all aspects of running the Club. Personal service to the club is a condition of club membership that allows MYC to make a broad offering to its membership at affordable cost. The club motto “if it needs doing do it” sums up the club’s ethos and many founder members remain keen and active users of the Club. The self–help style has resulted in members building our own pontoon system, club room and bar extension, surfacing our 5 acre boat yard. Most recently members have constructed from scratch our own 14 tonne displacement self-propelled moorings barge. MYC has over 320 members but with affiliates and family members there are over 600 of us. Amongst our crew we have those relatively new to yachting to single handed transatlantic OSTAR race winners. We have a thriving cadet section who sail our club fleet of 12 Laser Pico dinghies. We also have two club owned cruisers for members use and a busy social scene that includes club rallies around the Solent, French coast and Channel Islands. MYC has its own mix of deep water and shallow draft moorings for craft not exceeding 40’- 0” max LOA, a 14 tonne Wise boat lift for lifting, transporting and launching members craft to and from its own boat yard with capacity to overwinter 165 members yachts. We welcome visiting yachts to our pontoons (max draft 3m,overnight stay £15) to enjoy our club facilities and very reasonably priced bar. Contact: Marchwood Yacht Club, The Magazine, Maritime Avenue, Marchwood, Hampshire, SO40 4AD. Tel: 02380 666141 Email : secretary@marchwoodyc.org.uk
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