A windy return to the water… By M. Hawkes – 19/03/2022 The range of movement in the trees outside my kitchen window on Saturday morning told me that the forecast medium wind strength was well, wrong. Three words spring to mind when I start writing, where were you? Full sun, high tide, no moored obstructions … Read more

Daisy pulls it off! By Patrick Cooney – November 2021 Waldringfield has produced its fair share of National Champions but probably none as exciting as Daisy Collingridge. She cut her teeth in the WSC Cadet class and is now the Laser Radial National Champion after a tight week of racing at Weymouth in August against … Read more

The Ultimate Laser Show By John Ogden and Martin Hawkes – March 2020 The Laser class began at Waldringfield back in the late 1970s with formidable support from the Schlee and the Law families and also from two early class captains Hillary Greenhow and Richard Woolf. Hillary joined the Club especially to sail Lasers and … Read more

Lasers – Go Racing By Tony Ellison – November 2019 It had been 15 years since I had been seriously dinghy racing most weekends. Mostly I sailed in a Comet, which is a bit like a Laser that has shrunk in the wash, and is sheeted from the stern. Compared to sailing on the Deben, … Read more