At Bucklers Hard, on the banks of the delightful Beaulieu River, you will be immediately aware that quality comes far before expediency - and meticulous attention-to-detail and loving workmanship before production-line convenience.

The Marine Gallery in Cowes, Isle of Wight - visit their site to view the work of many artists.

The Royal Solent Yacht Club is based at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight.

The Royal Lymington Yacht Club in Hampshire.

Port Solent in Portsmouth is one of the South Coast’s leading leisure attractions where you can stroll along the marina, browse amongst the individual shops on The Boardwalk, or just relax in the Mediterranean atmosphere of this picturesque site and watch as the world goes by.

Skandia Cowes Week is the world’s premier sailing regatta, with over 1,000 yachts and 8,000 competitors taking part in some top-class sailing. This eight-day event has a rich heritage having run since 1826 and attracts a wide range of competitors from true amateurs to Olympic and World champions.

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Cowes Yacht Haven represents the heart of the sailing world in Cowes. Centrally located, visitors have instant access to Cowes town centre, the Parade, with its range of yacht clubs, including the historic Royal Yacht Squadron, and beautiful Northwood Park, with its tennis, mini-golf facilities and pleasant walks.

For sheer location alone, Hamble Point Marina is hard to beat. At the mouth of the River Hamble, with easy access to the world famous waters of the Solent, a magnet for competitive sailors from around the globe, it's a favourite with racers and cruising yachtsmen alike. Directly south of the Hamble is the Isle of Wight, with Cowes only a few miles away. To the east lie Chichester Harbour and historic Portsmouth and to the west are the quiet waters of Beaulieu River, Lymington and Poole Harbour.

The 230 berth marina itself offers extensive shore-side facilities. Besides a well-stocked chandlery, bar and restaurant, Hamble Point also has the best range of new and used boats for sale on the South Coast.

Take Surrey and Hampshire's truly beautiful Basingstoke Canal and add Galleon Marine's fleet of holiday craft and you have the perfect combination for that idyllic short break or full length holiday.

Our location near J5 of the M3, together with good parking facilities makes it easy for companies based in the South of England to organise a corporate event such as a team building short break in one or more of our boats with a good choice of pubs along the way.

Galleon Marine offer a range of narrowboats from 2 to 8 berths to suit most requirements, all fitted to a high standard for your comfort and convenience.

Galleon Marine has been under new management since April 2000. Jim and Jan Peile have taken up ownership of the only holiday hire company on the Basingstoke Canal and have plenty of enthusiasm and pride in providing that personal service to ensure that you enjoy your holiday to the full with modern narrowboats, designed and especially built to meet both the requirements of the holiday maker and the environmental considerations of this beautiful and historic waterway.

The Yateley Offshore Sailing Club is situated in Yateley in North-east Hampshire.

The Club was established in 1991 by a group of past members of local RYA shore based evening classes whose mutual interest is sailing.

Trombone is a Scanyacht 391, which is an ideal size. She is a fast and comfortable yacht, built in 1995 in Sweden, fitted with new sails in 2002. She has a total of 8 berths in 3 cabins.

She is also fully equipped with the latest wireless navigation instruments, autopilot and GPS equipment and AIS Radar installed 2005 together with new code 0 assymetric cruising sail.

This site has been created through the restoration of former gravel pits and is now a complex of three lakes that are used for:

water-skiing, wakeboarding , jet-skiing

Facilities for members only include: club boat slalom course on a sheltered lake, private boat owners’ lake, jet ski members’ lake.

Stokes Bay Sailing Club was formed a year or so before the outbreak of World War II (1938). When on 9 May 1938, a meeting in Gosport Council Chamber was convened to discuss the formation of a Club in Stokes Bay for owners of small boats, as a means of bringing people to the residential district of Alverstoke.

Stokes Bay Sailing Club is located in Gosport, Hampshire. Our full address is: Stokes Bay Sailing Club, The Promenade, Stokes Bay Road, Gosport, Hants, PO12 2BL.

We race all year round, in a variety of series (Spring / Summer / Winter - Saturday / Sunday / Wednesday / Sundowners, etc.).

The Club was founded in 1850 and has provided facilities to promote amateur yachting in a variety of ways since that time.

At the present, it consists of some 450 members, a clubhouse, workshop, pontoons and moorings.

On a regular basis the Club holds both dinghy and yacht races together with organised cross channel cruises.

The Club also arranges many well supported social functions and has easy access to Fareham lake, Portsmouth harbour and the Solent.

Anyone with an interest in Sailing and Motorboating is welcome to join the club and full details are available in the club information section.