Welcome

A warm welcome to the North Fambridge Yacht Club website.
The club is set in a beautiful location approximately 11 miles inland on the River Crouch and comprises of members who keep yachts either at Westwick Marina or on the river moorings.
NFYC is a small but very friendly club with a packed series of races, rallies and social events all the way throughout the year.
The Club was established in 1898 by our founder member Francis B. Cooke who soon established the Essex 17ft Class and won many races in his own dingy Coryphee. The tradition continues today with our active race program, although the yachts are larger and considerably more comfortable! 

The Clubhouse has an interesting history built as part of Brunel’s modular field hospital for the Crimean war and later shipped to Fambridge where it still proudly stands. You can read more about its history on this website.

Fambridge Yacht Havens provides a weekend launch service between the pontoon and river moorings during summer between  07.00 – 18.00. They also will pay the annual club joining fee for new members for the first year.

Another New Year has passed and a new sailing season will soon be upon us. My very best wishes to you all and may the coming season bring you the kind of weather we all crave. As ever we have a busy programme of events including rallies to the Limehouse Basin, Heybridge Basin and Shotley. Some of the rallies have optional extensions, so that members with no time constraints can enjoy rallies for longer and at a more leisurely pace. We will be repeating the 32 mile Impatient Trophy Race which proved to be very popular last year and we have a sea safety demonstration from the RNLI. Please refer to the Sailing and Social section for the dates and times of all these activities.  As before, hot food will be served during all race weekends. My sincere thanks to Pauline for her stewardship of the club over the last two years and I look forward to seeing you all on and off the water throughout the coming year.   

Chris Whitney
NFYC Commodore