Welcome to the Holm Sailing Club web site
Holm Sailing Club is based in the village of St. Mary's.
Club News
The club runs summer evening points racing on Tuesday evenings and fun sailing on Wednesdays. The club has a plan to purchase six Island Games ILCA boats after the 2025 Island Games event to be hosted by Orkney.
Local News
Regatta dates for 2025 have been set, a bit more spread over the summer this year. Stromness Regatta has been postponed to the 30 August. Kavan Kynoch won the Allcomers race sailing an ILCA6 at Holm Regatta on 5 July. More results will be posted soon. The next of the local regattas will be Westray on 26 July. Registration is due to start at 1000 with the first race at 1100. The Notice of Race is available here.
Dates for 2025:
| Date | Regatta | |
| 28 June | Stromness | Postponed |
| 5 July | Holm | Results to follow |
| 26 July | Westray | 100 year anniversary event, dinghies, yachts, skiffs and yoles |
| 2/3 August | Kirkwall | This year an ILCA traveller event |
| 16 August | Rousay | For yachts |
| 23 August | Burray Regatta | Continues after 2024 success. |
| 30 August | Stromness | |
| 13 September | Kemp Cup | To round off the 2025 racing |
Join the Club
New members are welcome!
For Sale
Two Laser (ILCA) dinghies are for sale in Thurso, sail numbers 133397 and 150739. Both in good order with lots of spare parts. £1100 and £1000 respectively. If you are interested contact David and Marjory Lord, [email protected]
Other News
Orkney will host the 2025 Island Games from 12 to 18 July. This is an international multi sport event featuring ILCA6 and ILCA7 for sailing. Orkney's sailing team will be: Andrew Leslie and Kyle Harcus in ILCA7 and Kavan Kynoch and Ewan Sinclair in ILCA6.