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D.s.c. has just held an opening ceremony of its attractive mustered 3/4 times a week to carry on the good work
new clubhouse, built entirely by the dedicated efforts of a few members with special expertise have given freely
members , most of whom are more skilled at handling a of their time and advice and so many members have
racing dinghy than wielding a spade or an electric drill or contributed to this project that it is impossible to thank
a cement mixer. them by name, but there is one member who deserves a
mr arthur hancock, a farmer from somerset who
special mention. Jonathan Weeks, our commodore, has
retired to Dittisham to enjoy sailing the safe waters of the
really masterminded the whole venture; overseeing the
Dart, started the club in 1950. he was joined by angus
planning phase, supervising the building (and suffering
Primrose who later became famous in the yachting world
a few nightmares in the process) and latterly encourag-
for designing racing yachts, but in the 1950”s owned
ing, persuading and cajoling members to join what
and ran the boat yard at galmpton and started design-
have been very enjoyable work parties with the result that
ing wooden dinghies. the first of these, the scimitar, was
D.s.c. now has a most attractive and useful new club
built in a redundant nissen hut erected on
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the stern deck of an m.t.B by two shipwrights
from Ditsum, Bill Quick and ted cox who
also raced them and were founder members
of the club.
a shotgun fired from an old sentry box
started races in the early years on the
greenway side of the river but when it
was decided to start from the Ditsum side a
small wooden hut was obtained and sited
on the foreshore where it is still in use today.
In 1996 a boat shed was erected which
provided storage for the 2 safety boats and
very basic changing and kitchen arrange-
ments. as the club grew and started hosting
many more open events it became imperative
that it should have better facilities. Plans were
drawn up to enlarge the boatshed by adding
a bay on each side to accommodate the
safety boats, plus Ladies and gents changing
rooms equipped with loos and showers. a
second storey was planned over
the middle section to provide
kitchen facilities and a room
suitable for lectures and com-
mittee meetings etc.
the plans were passed in
2006 but the estimated cost to
have them built was £147.000
and this was deemed too ex-
pensive for the club to finance.
after much discussion mem-
bers decided, with considerable
trepidation, that the solution
Higher East Cornworthy Farm
was to build it themselves and
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