Southend Barge Match 2025

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

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.