Experiences

Barton Charter Yacht Regatta

4-11th October 2025

Hire a yacht and join our annual Charter Fleet Regatta for a week of Racing fun.

The Barton Charter Yacht Regatta has been running for over 40 years and is an eagerly anticipated event amongst Norfolk sailors. Our Eastwood Whelpton yachts are available to hire for racing.

£30

Highlights

Full 4 day programme of mixed fleet racing on a classic yacht.
Beautiful Barton Broad with use of The Norfolk Punt Club Pontoon as our base.
Friendly encouragement to get into racing.
Cake and Bacon Butties to keep energy levels up.

Specifications

No previous racing experience required.
Participants do require a reasonable level of sailing ability, with confidence to handle a yacht in company with others.
Crews must hire a yacht from one of the ‘Broads Sailing’ Charter Companies.

What’s Included

Welcome briefing with introduction to Racing Rules.
Evening social programme including ‘Barton’s Got Talent’.
Snacks available from the ‘Tea Hut’ on the Pontoon.
Presentation Evening Dinner with many trophies to be won!

The Hire Fleets are separated out into fleets, handicaps allocated, and the racing is exciting and highly competitive, whilst also being great fun. We warmly welcome newcomers’ crews and aim to help you quickly ‘learn the ropes’ for the regatta and give you some ‘top tips for racing’ here at the yard before you leave for Barton, to get the best out of your Eastwood Whelpton yacht.

We usually have around 20 yachts on the water and base ourselves on Barton Broad for racing during the day. Customers moor up each evening either at the Sutton Staithe, Barton Turf, Neatished or Gay Staithe – depending on evening activities running. The sailing is fabulous and this is an experience not to be missed!

Evening meals for 3 evenings are included in our Regatta hospitality package and on the final evening we usually find ourselves a local hostelry for some sea shanties and local beer!

Testimonials

“We chartered the sloop Windsong for a week. Son and dad. We did the bridges even Potters The boat was superbly prepared and clean. We thoroughly enjoyed the adventure. Great bonding too and such a great boat to sail. Sailed 6 days for many hours each day. Great provisioning and domestics all supplied. Overall Six Stars. Would and intent to go again. Great value too. Lovely staff and boat service team. Nothing too much trouble. Joy too in the shower department after 6 days afloat. “

Tripadvisor, July 2024

“My two grandsons did their RYA training here over the summer school holidays. They really enjoyed the training from very good instructors. I enjoyed delivering and collecting them to/from this lovely boatyard and partaking of their coffee & ice cream served from the converted horse box.”

David Breeze
Google Reviews October 2024

“We travelled 18,000 kms for another holiday with Eastwood-Whelpton straight off the plane from New Zealand.”
“Huge thanks to Annie and Andy and the EW team for the boat prep., dealing with our food order, and pick ups and drop offs at the station. I can’t recommend EW highly enough, and we’ll be back for another holiday just as soon as the opportunity presents.”

NZLmatt
Tripadvisor, April 2023

“A big thank you to all the staff. We enjoyed a day trip on the Moorhen for our mums special birthday. The staff were helpful from the booking process to the actual day. They could not do enough to make sure we had a fantastic day. They catered for mum’s dietary needs with afternoon tea as well as having an amazing skipper on the day to make the trip very memorable.”

paulbart9
Tripadvisor, June 2023