BUSA is now inviting bids from Member Clubs to host the 2016 Fleet Racing Championships. The BUCS Fleet Racing Championships are the annual university fleet racing competition held between the members of BUSA (British universities). The event…

Valentine’s weekend was celebrated at the University of Nottingham Sport Sailing Club’s annual Snakebite, with much love shown for the perfectly breezy and sunny weather! Well into the university sailing season, the event was well-attended and saw…

The Wessex Sailing Club’s (Southampton University) Wessex Winter Warmer on 13-14 February a great weekend’s team racing. 18 of the UK’s top teams, including 13 university teams, headed to Spinnaker Sailing Club for some high level racing. Birdham…

University sailing clubs from across the UK are taking part in the first ever University Sailing Sustainability Challenge, set up by The Green Blue – a joint environment programme created by the Royal Yachting Association and British Marine. The…

“Well-organised Mess” are first Scottish Ladies’ TR Champs. Laura Bray and Emily Robertson report on the first Scottish Student Sailing (SSS) Ladies’ Team Racing Championships, hosted by Strathclyde Sailing on Bardowie Loch. The Report includes an…

Birmingham Yellow and Birmingham Green took Gold and Silver, with Warwick Black in Bronze. Meanwhile, Leeds’ Freshers showed off both their sailing and ballet-balance skills. Swansea White led the Silver Fleet to take a place in the Semis. Rachel…

The bi-annual transatlantic ICSA-BUSA Tour alternates between the USA and the UK, in which the US Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) and the British Universities’ Sailing Association (BUSA) compete across the sailing disciplines. This year it…

Member Clubs of BUSA are invited to submit proposals to host the Playoffs as part of the 2016 Team Racing Championship. The Playoffs, at which fifteen teams from the Qualifiers and Scottish Leagues will compete for places at the Finals, will be held…

At the Ceilidh Cup 2015, organised by the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club, Nicole McPherson and her team from RNCYC retained the Cup, but the remaining eight teams were all from Scottish Universities competing also in the Scottish Student Sailing…

The first event of the Scottish Student Sailing (SSS) 2015-16 calendar is the Ceilidh Cup Match Racing, held by the Royal Northern & Clyde Yacht Club (RNCYC). Nine teams, including eight student teams, will compete in the Rhu-based clubs’ Sonars over…

Alternating every two years, since its inception in 1957, teams of university students tour the USA and the UK to compete with their counterparts. In 2015 it is the turn of the BUSA to tour the USA and challenge their US Inter-collegiate Sailing…

Calling all University Sailing Clubs: Invitation to bid to host the 2016 BUCS-BUSA Team Racing Championship (provisionally posted on the BUSA Calendar from 30 March to 2 April 2016). Bidding will be in two stages. You are invited to submit a two-page…

The annual round of British student sailing championships – fleet, team, match and yacht racing – concluded last weekend with the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Match Racing Championship 2015, organised by British Universities’…

There were three days of intense competition during which the 28 university teams sailed 258 races, using the Swiss League system, leading to quarters, semis, petit finals and finals on a brilliant last day of team racing. It was hard fought and…

Today is the last day of the BUCS/BUSA Team Racing Championships, hosted by the University of Nottingham at Notts County Sailing Club. Follow the action at the event from our live event blog, please see Live Blog. The race schedule and live results…