About Us

 We are a small cruising club drawing most of our membership from the local community. The founder members came from Bo’ness and for reasons of practicality the membership has continued to be mainly local, needing to have people on hand to keep an eye on the yard, the moorings and manage the tidal barrier on our slipway. The community amenity value of the club was recognised by the Rotary Club which part funded the laying of our dinghy slip.

The club is easily located from seaward, being immediately to the west of a large new industrial shed of Alexander Anderson’s saw dust works, above a concrete sea wall. A flag mast with cross trees, yacht masts, moorings in the bay, small pier and gap in the sea wall for our slip help locate the site. The club name is displayed in large letters on the clubhouse roof. Our clubhouse is a compartment cut from the ss Ben Cleuch when she was broken at P&W McLellan, Bo’ness. Crane bases and other remains of “The Ship Breaking” can be seen on the foreshore immediately to the east of the bay.

The club yard has a railway system for boat launching, recovery and storage, a huge asset for ease of handling yachts and managing costs, giving independence from crane hire. A gantry, derrick and small workshop facilitate engine swaps, stepping masts and refits.

We owe much to the founder members of the club for the facilities that we enjoy and in turn do what we can to improve the amenities of the yard and clubhouse. As a rule one project is tackled each winter. In recent years these have included relaying the traverse rails on concrete footings, the installation of central heating and a new ceiling in the clubhouse.

To keep down running costs, all members are expected to help with the running of the club. Everybody can do something, whether it is construction, metal fabrication or routine maintenance. All the club facilities have been added by the membership. Some are less obvious, such as the ring main round the yard but no less useful, providing readily accessible mains electricity for each shore berth. Other services include water points, three phase electricity, security lighting and CCTV.

Members lay their own drying moorings in the soft mud of the bay at Grangepans. Bilge keelers predominate on account of the drying harbours and shoal waters of the Forth though we have a few fin keels which usually settle upright in the mud.

RYA training courses are run each winter at nearby Falkirk College, enabling members to acquire the navigational skills to go further afield. Members cruise the East and West coasts and the Northern Isles. We are also fortunate to have the Forth and Clyde canal providing coast to coast navigation, its eastern terminus being in the neighbouring town of Grangemouth.

Although a small club we have several families sailing with young children. The club has had a long association with Grangemouth sea cadets and occasionally sponsors its younger members for dinghy training at Port Edgar.

The social side of the club is catered for, cruising in company and barbeques during the sailing season. Winter walking and clubhouse socials keep the programme going through the winter. A very successful new venture in 2008 was an art and craft fair staged jointly with Bonnie Bo’ness.

We are currently Full in our bogie berths, Several spaces in the Trailer park and associate memberships is still avalable

Bogie Berths - boats from 20' to 36' with a max weight of 10 ton.
Sailing Dinghy Berths up to 14ft and that can be easily man handled

Ckub House
The club house is a former officers cabin off the S S Bencleuch
(see welcome page)
The club house has gas central heating as well as a log fire.
Full cooking facilities, Tea and Coffee & BBQ
Male and female toilets with showers.
LCD TV with surround sound entertainment system.
VHF Radio, Binoculars and a weather station with external wind speed