Watersporten

Yngling-club

Duvel, Westmalle, Hopus, Palm, Postel, …. all good reasons to bring your Y to Belgium

It all started a few years ago with eager sailors that became gradually less and less eager to wet the lower parts of their back on a winterish day in a dinghy ...
Note that the same sailors became slightly older as well ...

Keelboat it would be and the market was scrutinized for good deals : we wanted a fleet of even boats, no money race, not too fragile, not too big so we could handle with just 2 per boat.

Soon the Dutch Ynglings saw their second hand fleet thinned, as the new Portaventura fleet built and built. Imports started with 2, quickly a 3rd, soon n°4 and 5 ... 5 years later we race with up to 9 boats.

Port Aventura is our home club. Accommodation is top and the people are even better.
The relatively narrow lake forces more maneuvers, but narrow also means closer to shore ... and closer to the excellent beers (see the title) between 2 races !

The club is very open to newcomers, several people have learnt to sail from scratch in an Yngling and have bought one. Winter is as good as or better than summer, since we race every 2 weeks. Mixing teams allows newcomers to progress quickly.

The last 2 years, several Portaventura teams have headed north to participate in the Hein Ruijten Trophy. We plan to go again an get better results next time.
Our own Palm cup may be a good time to visit us : block the 3rd weekend of June in your agenda, we plan to combine with training session prior to racing.

Have an original proposal ? Talk to us ! We would love to race against other Ys from Belgium or neighboring countries.

Contact us at Yngling@telenet.be!