August 21, 2026

Overview

Bring your own food, BBQ equipment and tender for a trip ashore to the evening beach BBQ at Newtown Creek.

Itinerary

Saturday 22 August

• Sail to Newtown Creek and pick up a mooring buoy (charges apply) or anchor in the Creek.
• Arrive early, from 3pm, so lunchtime visitors have left and moorings are available - they’re first come, first served. Newtown Creek is National Trust land, and mooring charges depend on boat length.
• Anchoring is possible, but only in the main navigable channel and the lower pool.
• Evening BBQ on the beach.

Sunday 23 August

• Return to home ports.

Notes for Skippers

Newtown Creek can get busy in summer, so get there early. There’s an alternative anchorage just outside the Creek, where we’ve previously held barbecues on the beach, should the main area fill up.

Crew

Please use the S&CA South Coast WhatsApp community to arrange crewing, and sort this out before you register for the event. Please include the name of the boat you’re sailing on when you book.

What You Need to Do

1. Register your attendance via the S&CA website.
2. You can bring along friends - just add them as a guest when you register. Guests can only be added at the time of registration. If you want to add a guest later and the event didn’t require payment, cancel and re-register with your guest added; if payment was required, contact the event host.

Event Safety and Alcohol Consumption

We’re very much a social club, but please be mindful of the dangers of alcohol consumption near water. There have been incidents at past events of people falling from pontoons into the water after drinking - each could have ended in tragedy but for luck. Please pace yourself at club events, and take extra care getting safely back on board at the end of a social evening.

We look after each other: if you notice another participant showing signs of intoxication, let their crewmates know, and make sure they aren’t heading back to the boats or pontoons alone.

The same care applies to dinghies and tenders, which have also been the cause of people ending up unintentionally in the water.

For further safety advice, see the RYA and RNLI guidance.

Cancellations and Refunds

We’ll aim to give a full refund for event charges when you cancel through the website in good time - normally at least a week before the event.

If the club has already made third-party bookings, paid deposits, or taken on other commitments for the event, only a partial refund (or none) may be possible.

If you’re requesting a refund because you were unhappy with a third party’s goods or services, we can only refund you if the third party refunds the club.