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Kippford Week and Regatta 2024
Solway Yacht Club invites you to enter our annual Kippford Week and RNLI Regatta, offering wonderful sailing in a setting of outstanding natural beauty. Kippford Week is a family friendly series providing competitive racing and after racing social events. It attracts regular competitors from all over Scotland, England and frequently beyond.
Racing for the smaller boats usually takes place in the more sheltered area stretching from where the river begins to open out to the fringes of the Solway Firth. The faster and larger boats normally start inside the estuary and the courses take them into the Firth itself and maybe round Hestan Island.
If weather conditions and safety boat provision permit, it is hoped to vary the format of racing for the dinghies and smaller keelboats, with some days having one longer race and others 2 shorter ones. Similarly, depending on conditions, the RNLI Regatta will probably be one longer race.
Entry Deadline
For both the RNLI Regatta and Kippford Week: 24.00 on Thursday 1st August. Late entries for both Kippford Week and the RNLI Regatta will be considered at the discretion of the Race Committee on payment of an additional £10 to the fees listed below which will be donated to the RNLI.