Association) launch site guide is now available. This is a compilation of two previously separate guides. The publication marks the production of a bigger and improved database, and has forged stronger links between our two associations.

Features include: • OS grid reference and latitude and longitude • date information last updated • source contact details (name, address and telephone number of member who submitted the details) • grouping by region (coastal, inland, east, south, southwest, west, northwest, northeast, non-tidal Thames, foreign), then by county, town and name • details of access to site • details of local contact at site • details of access to water • details of parking facilities • availability of nearby fresh water • elaborating comments

This guide is available from:

1. DCA shop: Available as A4 sheets, A4 bound booklets, 3.5” floppy disks, from: Ken Brown, 5 Brookside, Birch Cross, Uttoxeter, Staffs ST14 8NU Tel: 01889 564333

2. DCA library: Available as A4 sheets, A4 bound booklets, 3.5” floppy disk, CD-ROM (CD-ROM has over 700 image files of maps and sketches). Available from: Mike Williams, 30 Fairlea Road, Emsworth, Hampshire PO10 7SX Tel: 01243 376431

The DCA & UKWA Launch Site Guide is only as good as the information submitted by our members. We need your help and expertise. Please use the Launch Site Report Form in this issue as a template to submit details of sites you visit this (or any previous or future) season. Facilities at sites change continually, so any information you can confirm is very valuable. Sketches for scanning and inclusion in the CD-ROM are most welcome. We would like to publish your contact details alongside your information. This is optional, but makes the whole scheme more sociable. It is always nice to talk about sailing with fellow enthusiasts.

Please send any launch site information to the appropriate launch site co-ordinator:

• East/ Thames non-tidal/ Foreign: Peter Small 01473 405620 dca@petersmall.freeserve.co.uk 1 Cranbome Chase, Ipswich, Suffolk 1P4 3EQ • South: John Atwill 0181 693 1328 104 Woodward Road, Dulwich, London SE22 8UT • Southwest: Roger Barnes 01749-890723 rogerbames@btinternet.com Quaish Cottage, Quaish Lane, North Wootton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 4HD • West: John Cannon 01686-640-473 john@felindre24.fsnet.co.uk Felindre Mill, Berriew, Welshpool, Powys SY21 8BE • Northwest: Johnny Adams 01422-822413 j.adams@salford.ac.uk 21 Halifax Road, Ripponden, W.Yorks HX6 4AH • Northeast: Ed Wingfield 01912 581995 edwingfield@hotmaiI.com 23 Hackworth Way, Royal Quays, North Shields, Tyne & Wear NE29 6XS

NOTE: The counties used in this guide are those that were in place in the mid 1990’s. Politics cause counties to be in a continual state of flux. At present we have a plethora of small counties in the North and West of Britain. The previous, larger county boundaries are more suited to a geographical guide, and most people are comfortable with them. Hence their use in our guide.

Eastern Region: Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Suffolk.

Thames non-tidal: The River Thames through Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, London, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Wiltshire.

Southern Region: Berkshire, Dorsetshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex, Wiltshire.

South Western Region: Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset.

Western Region: Cheshire, Clwyd, Derbyshire, Dyfed, Gloucestershire, Gwent, Gwynedd, Hereford & Worcester, Mid Glamorgan, Powys, Shropshire, South Glamorgan, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Glamorgan, West Midlands.

Northwestern Region: Cumbria, Dumfries & Galloway, Isle of Man, Lancashire, Western Isles, Strathclyde, Highland, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Wirral.

Northeastern Region: Scottish Borders, Central, Durham, Fife, Grampian, Humberside, Lothian, Northumberlandshire, Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands, Tayside, North Yorks, South Yorks, West Yorks, Cleveland.