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Welcome

Welcome to the Cramond Boat Club, situated at the mouth of the River Almond, only 4 miles from the centre of Edinburgh.

We cater for all types of small craft, including dinghies, small cruisers and motorboats. The Club organises dinghy and keelboat racing, open regattas, cruises and family fun days.

The Cramond Boat Club is an RYA Recognised Training Centre and is approved for training Club members in the RYA National Sailing and Power Boating schemes.

The clubhouse includes changing rooms, workshop and storage as well as a bar and function room.

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Latest news

Visiting Lifeboat

On Friday 12th September, we had a visit from the Anstruther lifeboat 13-47 "Robert and Katherine Steen" on a familiarisation exercise to Cramond. This is the latest state-of-the art Shannon class lifeboat deployed by the RNLI and it came into service at Anstruther last year. Driven by twin 650hp waterjets and capable of 25 knots, it is a powerful all-weather lifeboat, and an impressive sight in our little harbour. At 13.6m More »

13 Sep 2025

Evening Cruiser Race

Three boats took part in the fifth evening keelboat race on Friday 29 August. There was a bit of confusion over the start time by someone who read the time wrong! (No need to mention the committee member's name here.) But all was ok in the end. The wind was mostly westerly varying around F3 and the skippers agreed on a course of D M C Z Y. More »

30 Aug 2025

Drifting Around!

Yesterday, Saturday 23 August we had a very well supported Free Sail with nine dinghies on the water. Alas, the wind was in very short supply but in-spite of this all the crews had a pleasant drift and it was great to see so many family groups down sailing. Some even enjoyed some capsize practice! More »

24 Aug 2025

Women's race July

In July we ran our Women's Race. It's intended to be an annual event but over recent years it's been thwarted but poor weather conditions, so we were determined to hold the race, even though the weather was borderline. With a westerly F4, gusting to F6, it wasn't for the fainthearted and only two boats set out, Wanderer Jennifer, with Leonie Griffin at the helm and Janice Kerrisk as crew, up against Laser 2000 Seaspray More »

23 Aug 2025

Upcoming events

September 20-21

Dinghy and Cruiser Closing Cru…

HW 1452 5.3
Sep 20

11:20 - Training Cadets 6

HW 1452 5.3
Sep 20

12:45 - Dinghy Free Sail

HW 1452 5.3
Sep 24

19:30 - CBC EGM

HW 1753 2.0
September 27-28

DBSC Dinghy Regatta

Contact DBSC for further details.
Sep 27

10:00 - Dinghy Park work party

Sep 27

15:00 - Private party

Private party in function room
Sep 27

17:00 - Dinghy AUT5

HW 1837 4.9
Oct 1

19:00 - Dismantle Mast Crane

Oct 3

12:00 - Pre Crane Out preparation

Oct 4

Crane Out 2025

Briefing at 08:00
Oct 5

Crane Out 2025 Reserve Date 1

HW 1413 5.3

Tide predictions for Leith

Wednesday

17 September 2025

LW 06:03 1.78m
HW 12:07 4.60m
LW 18:33 2.18m
HW 00:34 4.74m

Thursday

18 September 2025

LW 07:12 1.42m
HW 13:23 4.88m
LW 19:29 1.88m

Friday

19 September 2025

HW 01:36 5.06m
LW 08:04 1.09m
HW 14:13 5.14m
LW 20:10 1.60m

Saturday

20 September 2025

HW 02:22 5.32m
LW 08:45 0.85m
HW 14:52 5.31m
LW 20:44 1.33m

Sunday

21 September 2025

HW 03:01 5.50m
LW 09:20 0.70m
HW 15:26 5.39m
LW 21:15 1.13m

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