The Camping
and Caravanning Club Boating Group is a special interest section of
the Camping and Caravanning Club and offers a programme of weekend
and holiday meets providing a base for inexpensive, simple family
camping or caravanning near suitable water.
If you belong to our parent Club, membership of the group is open
to you at an additional annual fee of only £6.00.
Membership
is inclusive of your children (under 18 years) and one named adult in your
household (usually your spouse or partner).
The Camping and Caravanning Club encourages the observance of codes of good
camping and provides a full range of services for all types of camping and
touring caravanning. This includes a comprehensive sites list and map, a
foreign touring service, special insurance facilities and many other advantages.
You will find members of the Boating Group, out and about, camping and boating
with our families, across mainland Britain throughout the summer.
We welcome wherever possible, all types of craft, including sailboards and
small dinghy's powered by outboards. However we have to respect any restrictions
sometimes imposed by our hosts.
Between our fifteen hundred or so members, we share a good deal of sailing
expertise and a willingness to help others in difficulty.
Our group is
affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association and actively encourages
training and good standards of water safety. We maintain lists of
venues where training is offered, some of which are near venues we
use for our meets during the year.
Our free quarterly newsletter, "The Buccaneer" provides information about
future meets, reports of earlier ones, articles of general interest on boating
topics, details of craft for sale and so on.
There is a social side to our activities too. Shore activities are frequently
organised for those 'left at home' when the skipper and crew sail away.
You need never be alone on a Boating Group meet but on the other hand, you
need never feel obliged to join in organised activities if you just want
a quiet hour or two.
The Boating Group appreciates the support
of the following organisations: