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Pagham Yacht Club

Welcome to the Pagham Yacht Club web site.

We are a friendly sports and social members club on the beautiful English south coast.

We sail from March to October, launching off our beach and with mechanical recovery. Formal racing takes place every Sunday morning during the season, usually 2 races as a mixed fleet. In July and August, we sail Wednesday evenings as well. Access to the Clubhouse, with changing and showering facilities, is available daily for full members.

Fishing is a year round sport for us, with competitions from boats and the beach, as well as charter trips for the more adventurous taking members further afield. Members also have available sea kayaks and SUPs, with regular summer evening and weekend activites. Our land activities are based around a low cost bar at the Clubhouse, including members dinners, live music, discos, quizzes and the bingo nights.

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The Pagham Yacht Club, 1 W Front Rd, Bognor Regis PO21 4SY, United Kingdom

Phone: 44 1243 265025

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.paghamyachtclub.com

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McConks’ stand up paddle boarding bitesize travel guides: Pagham, West Sussex.

• May 10, 2022

Pagham, Arun, West Sussex.

Open water, tidal location that can feature flat water, choppy seas or waves at times.

Conditions:

Pagham is, for many local SUP surfers, a wave venue that can be offshore when winter south westerlies blow. The offshore sand/shingle bank does move about but on its day the surf can be super fun.

At other times is mostly a flat/choppy water venue that gives access to a few different adventure SUP routes.

At the mouth of Pagham Harbour there’s serious tidal flow that goes in and out. Pagham has also been battling vast amounts of coastal erosion in recent years. Much of the beach has disappeared or reshaped, which is a continuing situation. At any given tidal state the beach – especially the part next to Pagham Yacht Club – will have changed considerably. There’s been coastal defence work carried out with some of this still ongoing.

Pagham beach is also a steeply shelving shingle beach. Not as steep as some but enough to throw up chunky shore break at high tide with swell in the mix.

And you should give boat traffic a wide birth. The yacht club features a winch system that hauls boats up and down the beach. This is pretty easy to spot. But still, keep clear when boats are being launched and recovered.

You used to be able to park in a car park directly behind the beach. But these roads have all been designated private access only in recent years. You’ll now have to park in the car park adjacent to Pagham’s village CoOp and walk your gear down to the beach. This can get quite busy in summer as it’s also right next to a few amusement arcades, a café and a few beach bars.

Popularity (1-10):

Pagham is pretty busy during high season. The yacht club has a relatively high membership. This in itself can make this part of the beach bustling. Add to the mix tourists and sunny, warm days will often see much footfall. During a July visit in 2021 there were 23 stand up paddle boarders on the water.

Pagham’s village centre is a stone’s throw away from the beach (2 minute walk). As you head down to the access gulley there are amusement arcades, a café and a couple of bars. Plus, Pagham Yacht Club. Although this is a members only establishment.

Pagham has a lot of beachfront housing, some of which is available for holiday letting. Church Farm Holiday Park is a few miles back inland and offers another accommodation alternative. There are also pubs and shops in the village. Plus, Chichester isn’t too far away. Nor is Bognor Regis, which lies east along the coast.

On its day Pagham has a sweet wave that breaks on an offshore sand/shingle bank. Decent days have been recited in hushed tones over the years as scoring an epic Pagham day is a bit like finding pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. Pagham’s bank is forever moving with each tide and swell. And of late the coastal erosion has reached a significant point. Work has been ongoing to replenish the main beach and halt the seas encroachment. And all this effects how waves break. This all said Pagham is still worth a look – especially in SW winds which are offshore. When surrounding spots on onshore and blowy Pagham may save your bacon…

Mostly, through high season, Pagham offers a recreation SUP playground for riders to practise their skills. Whilst it can certainly get choppy, again, Wly sea breezes can mean Pagham offers some shelter.

High tide can be a shorebreak dance to enter and/or exit the water whilst lower tide is flat. There’s a lot of tide and current that flows out Pagham Harbour to the right. So make sure you’re aware of tide times. And also be courteous and keep clear of boat and yacht traffic. Pagham Yacht Club launches and recovers craft via electric winches up and down the beach. Don’t get in the way.

For the adventure paddler Pagham has routes towards Selsey or up into the harbour – at high tide. This is a protected marine reserve, however, so keep away from local wildlife. You may be better off paddling left and heading towards Bognor Regis in the distance. This can be a pleasant touring leg with a stop off in Bognor for refreshments before heading back.

Downwind lovers will find favour with the above route in NE winds. You’ll need to put in at Bognor before huffing back on the breeze and rolling swell towards Pagham. As always with open water just be aware of tides and tide times.

If Pagham isn’t happening you have a few other close by locations on The Manhood Peninsula to check out. Seek and ye shall find.

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Pagham Yacht Club

Sailing, Fishing & Socialising since 1964

Pagham Yacht Club - A History

This is a reproduction of an article published in PYC’s 1994 30th anniversary handbook

The seeds of our club were sown in 1963 on Pagham Lagoon by a small but enthusiastic group of dinghy owners, calling themselves the Little Tern Club, and teaching themselves to sail and race in an assortment of boats. Three of these sailors, Doug Witheyman, Doug Moorey and George Greenhow joined forces with Ken Charlwood and John Gyngell to form Pagham Yacht Club, using John’s bungalow, Whitehorses, as the initial committee room. Ken Charlwood became Pagham Yacht Club’s first Commodore at that meeting in May 1964.

As the membership grew rapidly, a meeting place was urgently needed. Enora Latham, the then owner of Pagham Club, came to our rescue in 1965, not only in allowing the use of her premises for our socialising, but the use of the rear door to her club toilets (for a fee), and this was much appreciated on race days!

Changing facilities were rather basic in those days and it was a case of struggling into or out of sailing gear, either in your car or behind a bush in the grounds of Pagham Club. A privileged few used a spare room in Whitehorses.

By 1966, the size of the membership and the numbers of boats parked on the beach in front of Whitehorses, dictated that we needed our own premises and a boat park if the club was to continue its growth. Later that year we negotiated the use of a piece of ground owned by Pagham Beach Holdings and, in 1967, erected the Old Clubhouse, which cost £70 and was an unwanted scout hut in Siddlesham. A working party dismantled it and transported it to Pagham in one weekend. Rebuilding it took a little longer.

During the next nine years the club grew from strength to strength, and the boat park was usually full with anglers’ boats and sailing dinghies. National Championships, Open Meetings and Regattas were all attended by a large number of entrants, putting PYC firmly on the sailing map. At one memorable regatta, 70+ entrants were recorded.

Social events were always well attended, despite still having no toilets in-house, or a bar in the clubhouse! Members supplied their own drinks, beer being handed in on arrival and poured into a large tea urn and one helped oneself from the tap!

All surplus cash was injected into the Building fund, which was formed in 1974, as it was the ambition to one day have a bricks and mortar yacht club in sight of the sea.

In May 1975, and with this dream in mind, the commodore at that time, the late David Turton and his wife at the time, now Cynthia Bourne, knocked on the door of ‘Sea Shells’, No. 1 West Front Road, and asked the surprised occupants if they wished to sell, since the site was ideal for PYC. Surprisingly, the owners agreed to sell fairly quickly, but there was not nearly enough cash in the kitty, David had to stall the purchase until sufficient funds were available. An intense fundraising program then ensued over the following nine months, with money coming in from loans from members and the National Playing Fields Association, and a grant from the Sports Council which took six months to negotiate. Profit from well attended social events added to the kitty which was sufficient to purchase the freehold of the bungalow by January 1976, and internal alterations started immediately.

A further year of fundraising, now assisted by the presence of a bar, enabled David Brooks and Ted Ecclestone, both skilled craftsmen, to start building the extension to the beach frontage. Assisted by a gang of willing labourers, it was finished in record time.

The Yacht Club as you see it today is unique by way of its position on the beach, and because it is one of few freehold yacht clubs on the South Coast. As with all buildings, costly maintenance is always required, so we should try to treat our clubhouse kindly - a lot of it is still held together with blood, sweat and tears.

As a footnote to this potted history of PYC we feel that there are many club members, some still with us, and some sadly departed, with names too many to mention, who contributed many hours of work and dedication, without which Pagham Yacht Club, as we know it would not exist today.

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