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 recently bought six ILCA boats along with various sails which will be available as club boats.
Local News
The 2025 Island Games event was hosted by Orkney with the sailing event being run by Orkney Sailing Club with the assistance of volunteers throughout Orkney. More details of the sailing event are available here.
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. Kirkwall Regatta (sponsored by Highland Park Distillery) was held over three days with a pursuit race on Friday 1 August followed by traditional races on the Saturday as well as ILCA races running over Saturday and Sunday. The ILCA races formed part of the Scottish ILCA traveller series. Results can be seen here.
The next regatta on the Orkney calendar will be Rousay to be held on 16 and 17 August. There will be a lot of watersports going onas well as a round Wyre race on Sunday.
Dates for 2025:
| Date | Regatta | |
| 28 June | Stromness | Postponed |
| 5 July | Holm | Results here |
| 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 hosted the 2025 Island Games. The sailing event was won by the Isle of Wight. More details here.