East Coast Branch
Welcome to the East Coast Branch website
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Next Event
Laying Up Lunch @ Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch
Sun 26th Oct 2025
Organiser: Colin Shead
Latest News
Our Events Calendar for 2025 has been published by the committee.
Members will receive updated information about events by e-mail, as and when it becomes available.
Notes for Event Coordinators
At this link you will find a printable help sheet with notes on the basics of organising a Branch Event.
About The East Coast Branch
Our branch covers a very large sailing area from Berwick-Upon-Tweed on the Scottish Border to Dover, and currently we have around 260 members in the Branch, one of the largest in the Association. We are also very active with typically 12 or 13 social and sailing events organised each year.
The Branch started life in the River Orwell in 1991, and this area remains the focal point of much of our activity, with the majority of events being organised in and around the Thames Estuary. You can read more about the branch history here. We are keen to encourage members further afield to join in and organise their own events where there are sufficient numbers of Moody Owners to make this feasible.
Our events are informal, friendly and we hope welcoming, so, if you have not attended any yet, please give it a go. If it is too far to sail, or the weather is not behaving, come along by road if possible.
We have a small branch committee of six, and some local contacts in the main sailing locations in our area. We are here to help, so if you have any questions please contact us, you can find the details on our Team Page.
Not yet a member, and have a Moody on the East Coast ? – well you are missing out on some fine company, as well as being able to access lots of help and advice on the forums and the Association Magazine ‘Compass’
East Coast Events Calendar – 2025

Occurred on Sat 25th Jan
Lunch and AGM @ The Blue Anchor, Feering
Organiser: Roger Price

Occurred on Sun 23rd Feb
Noggin and Natter @ Medway Yacht Club
Organiser: Linda Woolgar

Occurred on Sat 26th April
Fitting Out Lunch @ Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club
Organiser: Andy Robinson

Occurred on 27th-29th June
Ipswich Rally and Midsummer Dinner
Organiser: Peter Wright
A Rally to the Ipswich Beacon Marina and a dinner at the Last Anchor combined. Come along with or without your boat for this midsummer event. Boats will gather in the marina on Friday Evening. On Saturday Morning there will be an opportunity to join an internet guided walking tour of Tudor Ipswich, then in the afternoon drinks & Nibbles on Wild Thyme. In the evening we will gather at 1900 in the Last Anchor, Ipswich Dock for our midsummer dinner.

Occurred on 12th-13th July
Brightlingsea Rally
Organiser: Ian French

Cancelled - 15th-17th August
Medway Rally
Organiser:

Occurred on Sat 23rd - Sun 24th August
Crouch Rally
Organiser: Giles Ford-Crush

Cancelled - Fri 29th - Sun 31st August
Deben Rally

Sun 26th Oct
Laying Up Lunch @ Royal Corinthian Yacht Club, Burnham-on-Crouch
Organiser: Colin Shead
The lunch will start in the dining room at 1300.