About the Club

Elie & Earlsferry Sailing Club has a wonderful modern Clubhouse, built in 1995 and extended subsequently, which is located beside the harbour itself.

The Clubhouse includes a large meeting room, sun lounge, snack bar, showers and toilets, a wet area and some storage lockers. It has good access for people with disabilities. The Clubhouse itself is a non-smoking area.

The adjacent kitchen serves a wide range of snacks and soft drinks during the summer season.

Visitors

Visiting yachtsmen are welcome to make full use of the facilities by contacting the Harbour Master on arrival for access information. There is a small charge for mooring in the visitor’s berths but no charge for using the sailing club.

 

Club Store  

Elie & Earlsferry Sailing Club has storage space at the harbour for club equipment. The store contains a work bench, fresh water tank for running outboard engines, electricity and fresh water on tap. Members are welcome to make use of these facilities to work on their boats.

Dinghy Park

The dinghy park is divided into bays which are allocated to members on a “first come- first served” basis, on receipt of the annual subscriptions.

Club Boat

The Club has a Pico dinghy, which can be used by members qualified to sail dinghies. We can also lend you wet suits and buoyancy aids.

Crane In and Crane Out

Boats are left in the water at Elie for the summer season only. During winter most are removed to the harbour stand or towed away for storage.

The Club hires a crane twice a year to move boats in and out of the harbour. Members are welcome to participate in “Crane In” in the spring and “Crane Out” in the autumn by responding to the invitation to put your name down on the list for the event.   To participate in Crane In/Out you must have a valid certificate of insurance for your boat, which has to be produced on the day. 

Trailer-sailers, Powerboaters & PWC's

There are good launch and recovery facilities for trailer-sailers available for a modest fee all year round for those who do not require a crane.

A History of Elie Harbour/Elie & Earlsferry Sailing Club

 

1969/ 1970  -  Elie Town Council  agrees to let a piece of ground to EESC to be used as a dinghy park. Ground rent agreed at £25.00 per annum. Work commences by EESC to level the ground.

1973 - EESC  commences work to concrete the area.

1973 - Elie Town Council  installs street lamps on the causeway leading  to the harbour and 5 floodlights  on the granary. 

1974-  Elie Town Council lays 3 ground chains in the harbour to provide more secure mooring for all craft .(Burgh Surveyor - W.  Balderstone )

Concern being voiced  at the extent of silting taking place in the  harbour an approach was made to the Council by EESC  to suggest the removal of

Read more: A History of Elie Harbour/Elie & Earlsferry Sailing Club

Tom Maccabe

SCOTTISH Volunteers Receive Awards from HRH Princess Royal

 

HRH the Princess Royal, President of the RYA, has honoured some of boating’s most outstanding volunteers with 2008 RYA Community and RYA Awards at a ceremony in London. Two Scots were proud recipients of RYA Community awards for Lifetime Commitment after giving many years of invaluable service to their clubs. They are Tom Maccabe, from Elie and Earlsferrry Sailing

Club in Fife, and David Mollison, from the Clyde Cruising Club dinghy section at Bardowie, near Milngavie.

Read more: Tom Maccabe

The First 40 Years

Elie’s outstanding position on the north shore of the Firth of Forth has ensured that it is a wonderful place to keep a small boat and from which to cruise the river.

Until the 1960’s only a few pleasure craft and some local full-time fishermen used the harbour, which had existed for centuries. But the number of pleasure craft, including some powered by sail, gradually increased and a group of local people felt that the time was right to approach the Town Council, which then ran the harbour, to gauge its support for the formation of a sailing club at Elie.

Read more: The First 40 Years

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