Facilities
Silver Wing Sailing Club's facilities often rival, if not beat those of fully commercial clubs, all maintained and looked after by the love and care of our members. Best of all we are just minutes from the M25 Junction 13, only 5 minutes from Staines, 10 minutes from Windsor and 15 minutes from Slough, but despite this you could be miles from anywhere whilst in the middle of our 47 acre lake, providing easy access yet relaxing sailing for all.
Our club-house facilities are second to none with a fully licensed bar and catering area, offering snacks and refreshments, complemented by our indoor seating and outdoor patio areas. We also have a couple of BBQs that our members are always welcome to use, and the sunsets across the lake after a hard evenings sailing are just spectacular.
We have a club PA/Music system that can be rented when needed, and the whole venue is available for hire - please see our venue hire page for more information.
Social and sailing events are run through the year both at home and away, our international fixtures list extends as far as Australia, we've visited places as exciting as Israel, and covered most of the USA and Western Europe. We are currently the Airline Sports & Cultural Association World Airline Sailing Champions. Nearer home we regularly enter a team or two into the Southport 24 hour sailing race, many of our members compete in the Salcombe Regatta, and we have strong ties with several other sailing clubs. We run many social events through the year, with our regular parties always proving to be very popular, the biggest being our annual music festival SailAid.
We run open events for several boat classes through the year, the best place to look for dates is our diary/calendar page.
Racing is run through the year on Sundays, and on Tuesday evenings in the summer. Our racing results are often published to the website the same evening so you can always check how you're doing, with prize givings and specific competitions through the year. Also in the summer is our very popular beginners / general sailing evening which runs every Thursday from around 18:00. Again please visit our specific Thursday Evenings page. Training is provided at various points in the summer for both beginner and intermediate levels, along with power/rescue boat training.
More on the actual physical sailing side of things, we have 15 club boats, all better maintained than any other club in the area if we do say so our self. Any of our members can use these boats for a (very cheap - again best in the area) annual fee. Please visit our club boats page for more info.
For those who have just started sailing, or those who simply just seem to constantly forget their own we have a full set of buoyancy aids which you are free, in fact recommended, to use if you haven't got your own. We take safety seriously as an RYA Affiliated Club, and have two motor powered dories (one 9.9hp & one 30hp), and a committee boat with full set of starting flags to help complement that.
For your own boat we have a boat compound that members can pay an annual fee to use, and all members get a key to the external gates and changing rooms allowing them access to their boat at any time. Launching/sailing from our jetties or shallow concrete slipways is a breeze.
For when you come off the water we have separate male and female changing rooms with showering and tumble-drying facilities.
Best of all we are a not-for-profit club, run by the love of members for the satisfaction of other members, and as such have a fantastic informal atmosphere - sailing here can be as fun or relaxing as you choose!

