Meetings in the 2026-2027 season

October 7th: Cathy Shelbourne

'The Riddle of the Sands'

November 11th: Lucy Bruzzone

'Penguins, Yachts and a Post Office in Antarctica'

December 9th: Members' Evening

January 6th: Carl Lamb

'Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2024: Teamwork & Training on the Edge'

February 10th: Ella Hibbert

'Sailing for our Climate: An Arctic Circumnavigation'

March 10th: Cathy Brown

'Attitude’s Summer in Scotland'


CAMSAIL is a club which meets monthly from October to March to enjoy a wide range of illustrated talks about sailing, given by invited speakers and club members, and provides an opportunity to socialise in a nautical atmosphere (albeit in central Cambridge!).

We organise trips both on and off the water, usually in spring and autumn.  Recently we have sailed on the Norfolk wherry Albion (see photo above) and enjoyed a guided tour of Sizewell B and C on the Suffolk coast.
Details of previous trips here.

We operate a small lending library of nautical books.

We try to act as an informal crewing service, putting yacht skippers wanting crews in touch with crews wanting skippers!


2026/2027 is our seventeenth season; last season, we had a membership of around 50. Some of the members have or have had their own yachts, others enjoy sailing by chartering or as crew, others have sailed in the past or are simply interested in things nautical!

Our monthly meetings are on Wednesday evenings (normally the second Wednesday in the month) at 19.30 for 19.45. We meet in the Cambridge and County Bowling Club, Brooklands Avenue, CB2 8FG. The club is situated towards the west end of Brooklands Avenue on the north side, and parking is available there. There is a bar open before the meeting and a hot drinks machine.

Our club welcomes a connection with the_Cruising_Association through their Suffolk Section.
Camsail and Cruising Association members can attend each other’s meetings, and the Camsail programme is published in the C.A. quarterly magazine.

There is an annual subscription (at present £20, to cover the cost of the venue and speakers’ expenses), but those new to us are welcome to attend one meeting without charge or any commitment to join.


Committee (2026):

President: Peter Jones
Chair: Jim Hibbert
Treasurer: Malcolm Dee
Member: Lucy Bruzzone
Member: Lotti Kuhn
Member: Jenny Martin

Chair's Report for the 2024/5 season

Treasurer's Report for the 2024/5 season

Camsail has a constitution, which was adopted on 12 December 2018.

Camsail has a Data Privacy Policy, which you can view here.


Last updated: 15/10/2026

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