BEMBRIDGE ANGLING CLUB

Bembridge Angling Club is the largest boat angling club on the Isle of Wight and has the aim of providing affordable boat angling for the average to less well off angler. We have a total membership of adults plus wives and juniors totalling nearly 200. We have grown from a small group of friends in 1963 based on a piece of derelict land to a thriving club having self built our club house on a leased section of St Helens North Quay including a fenced parking area. The club has a lease from the harbour company for an area of mud in the harbour on which we have installed swinging moorings for boats mainly in the 16 to 25 feet bracket with the ability to accommodate a small number up to thirty five feet. Around the Quay there are spaces for five boats up to thirty one feet and a further five boats are moored between piles off the Quay.

Individual moorings are normally allocated to skippers based on various criteria set out in the seperate page "Mooring Rules". We generally have a few vacancies for smaller boats at the beginning of each new season. Starting in January each year the club hires a crane to lift a number of boats onto our parking area on the Quay for a bottom scrub and a new coat of antifouling. Normally three groups of boats are lifted out for four week periods, giving skippers a chance to do one or two other jobs that are inconvenient to do while afloat.

Car parking in our compound is restricted to members’ cars only, due to insurance & safety issues and is on a first come basis (no reserved parking). Considerate & efficient parking is requested at all times. During boat maintenance periods, members not actively engaged in maintenance are requested to park elsewhere. The club has a large selection of impressive trophies and shields to be won annually, mainly for the best specimen of each of a variety of species but also a number for other things like most Tope caught, heaviest Ray, winner of each fixed date competition and so forth.