Brentford Cruising Club

Based in Brentford Dock Marina on the tidal River Thames, at the mouth of the Grand Union Canal, in West London.  BCC is a friendly, active and well established yacht club, offering river cruising, social events, courses and training programs.

Brentford Dock's 150th Year Anniversary

Brentford Dock 150 Logo

This Summer, on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th July, Brentford Dock Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of Brunel's Dock.

Join us and celebrate with local people and interested enthusiasts of Industrial Architecture, River Transport, Sail Steam and Diesel.

You can find out more at Brentford Dock 150›

London Ring - Photo Report

London Ring 2009

The weather was fantastic and lots of BCC members turned up. Result: a very good weekend. Thanks to Leslie and Jan for organising this perfect weekend.

If you have not done the London Ring, we recommend you try it next year. We have a large number of photos from this trip taken by Derek Jones, Peter Dignam and Hans, and there may be more... please send any photos you have taken to: Hans.

Pontoon Party - Photo Report

Pontoon Party 2009

We had lots of rain in the morning hours, which was a little bit of a worry, however by noon, just in time for our barbeque party we had sunshine...

Thank you to the 30 or more members that turned up for a good afternoon in our Marina.

Below you will find a link to a few photos snapped during the day, if there are more photos taken by YOU, please email these to Hans.

River View

River View tumb nails from flickr

If you want to follow what is happening on the river outside Brentford Dock, this is the place!

Will try to add photos every day! This project started on April 19.

Updated Web site

This is the new look of our web site!

The pages are now “cleaner with more white space”, we have done a spring clean, new design, added a search feature and a buy and sell section, we made it easier to update and now all of your photo sets dating back to 2002 are available as Flickr sideshows.

Steve Bullman, Graphics Designer and Brentford Dock Resident has refreshed our logo.

Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery

There are more than 1700 photos in our photo collection! Below link will take you to our Flickr page.

Renewal of membership

It is that time of the year again “The Renewal of the Membership Season”. Just fill in the Membership form and return to our Secretary, 3 Julius Court, Brentford Dock, Brentford, TW8 8QH with a cheque for only £15, payable to the Brentford Cruising Club.

Make sure you supply us with your latest and correct email address as we use email as our main way of communication. However, if you do not use email, do not worry, we will also send you information about our events by post.

It only takes a few minutes, do it now!

Anna Ferguson

Per and Elly - The Sailing Adventure

Sybaris

Follow Per & Elly's sailing adventure in the Mediterranean (Turkey, Greece, Cyprus) and the Red Sea (Egypt, Jordan).

Croatia Cruising Companion

Book Cover

Cruising Club Members Jane Cody and John Nash have not been wasting their time in Croatia and the publishers, Wiley Nautical, are calling "The Croatian Cruising Companion" the definitive guide to sailing the Dalmatian Coast and islands.

You can read all about it on Croatia Cruising Companion

Jane is also busy writing on here blog Croatia Online. "The inside story on Croatia. Practical tips, undiscovered places and travel facts, news, views and comment."

Burgees

burgee

The price is £12 each, and they are available from Derek Jones or John Yates.

There are also Caps available for £6.50 each.