• Sun 27 Aug 2017 Strangford Lough Racing Cruiser Association SLRCA at EDYC

    Strangford Lough Racing Cruiser Association 2017 SLRCA – Round the Lough Series Race – Sun 27 Aug at EDYC, Holm Bay start, – Start sequence 5,4,1,0 – First start 13:00 This will be a  round the cans course with a target time of  2hrs 30 mins. The association web site has the background information – […]

  • after the EDYC REGATTA SATURDAY 12 AUGUST 2017

    after the EDYC REGATTA SATURDAY 12 AUGUST 2017 Results are available under the results section of this site (also Strangfordloughregattas.co.uk) and a photo gallery has also been created. Some 80 people attended the barbecue and enjoyed the rest of the evening and night with the resident DJ Andrew.   ( a gallery of around 70 pictures taken of […]

  • Magdaleyne gets fantastic results at West Highland Week 2017.

    Magdaleyne gets fantastic results at West Highland Week 2017. 28th July to 4th August 2017 – Class 5 – 15 competing boats http://whyw.co.uk/points-series-2017/ They have cleaned up – 8 races – 6 firsts and 2 seconds, winning class 5 easily. Congratulations to the helm and crew. Including Andrew Hanna who leaked this information to his […]

  • EDYC members boats gain good results in early July 17

    Those of you not reading the Down Recorder or the strangfordloughregattas web site may have not seen the good results obtained by club boats – Narrows Series IRC2:  1st Mipaal – Stephen Lynn (with three wins); 2nd Alcyone Peter Thompson NHC1:  1st Stardust – Grant McCullough/David Maxwell; NHCRS2:  2nd Seaborne – Robert Dow; 3rd Kestral […]

  • Wayfarers “Three Meals, Three Islands Challenge”. Saturday 19th August.

    Wayfarers “Three Meals, Three Islands Challenge”. Hi everyone, A challenge has been suggested by one of our Wayfarers and I liked the sound of it so much that it will go ahead on Saturday 19th August. The challenge will be to make three meals, breakfast, lunch and dinner on three different islands around Strangford Lough over the course […]

  • Ladies Sailing and Powerboating at East Down Yacht Club EDYC enters a new phase.

    Promoted as Divas in Fevas and run as a set of 3 women only training sessions at EDYC, led by a female Senior Instructor running over the three Sundays – 21st May, 28th May and 11th of June from 11am to 4:30pm. The course used dinghys and RIBs teaching participants how to sail or improve […]

  • EDYC Offshore Races the Race to Peel and the Race to Ardglass 2017

    We are publishing today 30/4/17 changed dates for the two EDYC offshore races Sat 3rd June — Ardglass Race HW Belfast 07:03 BST Sat 16th September — Peel Race HW Belfast 08:33 BST The Peel and Ardglass race dates have been arranged to fit within the other Strangford Lough events and to have outgoing tides […]

  • OPENING DAY and nautical quiz night!

    OPENING DAY and nautical quiz night ! with our own Quizmaster Trevor The quiz commences at 7.30pm  Saturday 29th April All members and their guests welcome. Alfie will be serving bar snacks after sailing and meals from 6.30pm. £5 contribution per team to the RNLI. Normal series club racing will be held on the water in the afternoon […]

  • CLEAN UP DAY EDYC 22 April 2017

    We have got the Club ready for the new season ………………. CLEAN UP DAY was Saturday  22  April  2017,    from 9.30am EVERYONE  was WELCOME ! and a new gallery of photos captures some of the work done see gallery section. FREE an excellent Lunch with Soup and Sandwiches was served from the Holm Bay Bar […]

  • The Drascombe Association AGM and Dinner was held in Belfast on Sat 25 March 2017

    The Drascombe Association annual general meeting (AGM ) is usually held somewhere in England. However as the current chairman (John) is from Northern Ireland it was agreed to hold the event in Belfast for the first time. Thus the Drascombe Association AGM was held in Belfast City Hall on Saturday afternoon with a dinner in […]