The club was started in 1936 by local fishermen who liked to race their boats.

These down-to-Earth local beginnings are still reflected today in the character of the club.

Annie, Millom built 1915 leading Alice Allan,

Initially called “Morecambe and Heysham Yacht Club” throughout the wider development of dinghy racing particularly in the 50s and 60s.

The club hosted many regional and national dinghy championships including the popular at the time “Hornet” dinghy developing a large local fleet.

Along with an increasing fleet of Osprey dinghies at the same time with the then new “Laser” in the late 70s.

Windsurfing became increasingly popular in the 80’s onwards and the club hosted the annual “Cross Bay race weekend” which was held up to the early 90’s. This photo is one of the early events picturing the lead up to the start.

After the county hosted the summer Olympics in 2012, sailing became increasingly popular and the club benefited from a Sport England grant to upgrade our clubhouse facilities with increased size of changing rooms, modern stainless kitchen facilities and new bar.

With a new name in the later part of 2015 and now known as “Morecambe Sailing Club” or MSC we felt the change of name to be less formal and a reflection of the clubs friendly membership.

Again in 2020 with the assistance of sport England and National Lottery funding we took delivery of a new Ribcraft patrol / safety boat to help the club increase female participation in the sport which is something we are particularly proud of achieving one the past few seasons and still promote.