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Access to the Local Notices to Mariners from Poole Harbour Commissioners website- Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 12
“Bottoms Up” A cheerful toast today, this phrase has darker origins. During an era when unsuspecting men were tricked into naval service, recruiters would slip a coin into the bottom of a beer glass. If the drinker accepted the beer-and the coin-they were deemed to have “accepted payment” and were forcibly pressed into the Royal … Read more - Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 11
“At Loggerheads” A loggerhead was a long-handled iron tool, heated to seal deck seams with pitch. However, it occasionally found another use during onboard disputes, serving as a makeshift weapon among quarrelling sailors. “At loggerheads” now describes intense arguments or standoffs, echoing the heated confrontations of the past. Written by Lindsey - Advent Calendar 2025 – Day 10
“A clean slate” Deck slates, would be used as deck logs to keep note of important navigational information like knots, fathoms (depth of the water) and wind speed. At the end of the night shift when the calculations were no longer useful, the slate would be wiped clean by the new officer on watch. Today, … Read more
About the Club
Established in 1875, East Dorset Sailing Club is located on Evening Hill, Sandbanks on the northern shore of Poole Harbour. We are now the oldest sailing club in Poole and in 2025 we will be celebrating our 150th Anniversary.
Members enjoy club sailing with regular dinghy racing and cruiser events run between April 1st and October 31st. EDSC is run by the members for the members. As such each member is expected to complete a number of duties during the sailing season as a condition of their membership.
During the sailing season we have moorings available for small cruisers and yachts up to 35ft. Our club house and pier were in fact built by our members many years ago, the clubhouse has fabulous views across the harbour to Brownsea Island and Sandbanks.
The club has a dinghy yard, rack space and a toast rack for tenders in addition to this we have the longest private pier in the harbour with numerous tender outhauls.
In the boatyard we have space for members’ dinghies and club owned boats, which now include two family size Topper Argos, Fusion Pro, Toppers, a Laser and an Optimist which are all available for members to use on a fee paying basis during the sailing season. This means that members don’t have to have their own boat in order to enjoy sailing from the club. We are also fortunate to have a sailing season car park.