Boats can launch at the Blackwater S.C. at Heybridge and will be met here by Charles Stock (Shoal Waters). It is a tidal club with water up to three hours each side of high water.

Craft arriving on Friday evening or early Saturday can get afloat before 0930 hours and drop down with the ebb tide for a sail between the club and Osea Island. Later arrivals cannot launch until 1330 hours on Saturday.

All craft to rendezvous off Osea pier at high water Saturday including those coming by water. An anchorage for the night will be selected by those present dependent on weather at the time.

Sail back to the club to Blackwater S.C. on Sunday to get boats back onto trailers from 1400 hours onwards. Please do not interfere with racing craft on the ramp. If in doubt, check with the officer of the day.

All firm pledges to come will be sent chart of the area.

All queries and further details from A.C. Stock, 1 Mount Villas, Pleshey, Chelmsford, Essex. Tel. Pleshey 280