Hunts Sailing Club welcomes sailors of all ages and abilities to race or cruise. We provide class racing for Solo, Enterprise, Phantom, and Laser Class dinghies, as well as an allcomers handicap. Find us in St Ives, close to Huntingdon, Cambridge and Peterborough in NW Cambridgeshire.

We are a family-oriented club, with regular youth training and several multi-generation families, with father vs son, daughter and wives competition in and across classes!  To find out more, see Sailing.  Have a look around the website, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you have any questions and come and visit us for real!

Graham the Club Secretary, has kindly offered to open up the clubhouse for Family Sailing on Tuesday morning 3rd April. 

Sailing starts at 10am, and off the water at 12 noon.

We need a safety boat driver and crew.

Galley opening will depend on Graham’s goodwill or a volunteer stepping forward.

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The Get Ready To Race course being held in April has proved very popular and has been oversubscribed.  Therefore registration is now closed.

If you registered online as requested, you will be notified whether your child/ren were successful in gaining a place on Tuesday 3rd April.  You will also then receive further details and be asked to pay.

Please note:

  • Children must be NAMED on a Family membership, or hold a Cadet membership.  Contact our Membership Secretary if you are not sure.
  • The membership must be valid for the 2018 season.  Due to the timing of this course, you may have been able to register on your 2017 login.  Please ensure you have renewed and paid by 1st April (when our membership year begins and logins are renewed).
  • Only online applications will be considered.
  • The decsion of the Training Principal and/or the Course Senior Instructor is final.

Get Ready to Race is a three day training course for under 16s who want to start racing, or build on rookie experience.

The course will take place on 10th, 11th and 12th April, from 9.30am to 3.30pm each day. We do prefer that sailors come for all three days, but if space allows can take them if they can only come for one or two days. Cost will be £25 per day, plus any boat hire. Hot lunches will be available at £3.50 per child per day, but parents are expected to do a galley duty to help us cook!

This year the course will split into two groups - complete beginners who might be at Stage 2 or above, and those with a little race experience who are confident sailors. It is important that participants are keen to learn to race, and that they have well fitting full wetsuits, or drysuits, plus proper sailing boots and socks as the water is still very cold.

The course is always good fun and a great way to kick start getting into club racing. We will also look at preparing for the forthcoming Optimist open meeting the following Sunday, plus the new junior Super Series.

To register for the course you need to log in to the members only part of the website.

  • Use the username and password you received with your membership. 
  • Once logged in you will see the training courses menu on the left hand side of the page. 
  • Click the name of the training course to find out more.
  • Sign up using the button at the bottom of that description.