This year's Southend Barge Match will take place on Saturday July 26th.

High water at Southend will be 1430 BST, so we plan to start the race around 1230 from a start line off Thorpe Bay Yacht Club.

We will sail an inshore course involving a race mark positioned off Jubilee Beach as last year, subject to weather conditions. The course will be decided nearer the date, based on the weather forecast. 

There will be a prizegiving ashore in the evening at the Thorpe Bay Yacht Club.

Barges are likely to arrive the previous day (High water 1347), or on the morning of the match.

Supporters can help by making a donation on our JustGiving page


Note for barges:
We are dependent on barges returning their trophies the year after they win them.
However, this is not always the case, where barges do not attend, and this leads to last minute substitutions which are not always documented, when cups are not returned for a race.
Since COVID we  have found that most of our trophies have not been returned.

Missing trophies are:
Alexandra Yacht Club Perpetual Trophy                                  
Southend-non-Sea County Borough Perpetual Trophy     
Southend-on-Sea Yachting Week                                              
Scholfield Perpetual Trophy                                                         
Silvertown Services Literage Ltd., Perpetual Trophy          
Southend Barge Match Perpetual Trophy                              
Geoff Dawson Perpetual Trophy 
 

We would ask that owners and crew check whether they have  still got any of these trophies in their possession, so we can return to having a complete set of trophies for our matches.

David Renouf

Chairman, Southend Barge Match Committee
info@southendbargematch.co.uk
 
Downloadable documents:
Invitation Letter 2025
Entry Form 2025
Risk Assessment 2025
Major Incident Plan 2025
Local Regulations 2025
Guidance for OOD 2025
Barge Match Racing Rules 2025