Welcome to Sale Cruising Club's website.

Located almost centrally on the Bridgewater Canal in South Manchester, close to Sale town centre, Sale CC is a long established canal cruising club with over 100 members. We hope that this website will be of interest to everyone of the boating community. Please have a look at all the different areas of the site.

There is a large range of information about the club, its history, current events and activities undertaken by members. There is also a range of information concerning boating in the region generally and other clubs on local and more distant canals.The various links on the port (left) side of the site will lead you to the relevant sections as listed.

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Bridgewater Canal - Trafford Rowing Club's Head Race Saturday 17th November
Notice is hereby given that Trafford Rowing Club will be holding its annual head race event on the Bridgewater Canal between the Bay Malton Public House (Seamons Moss Bridge) and Marsland Road Bridge Sale on Saturday 17th November 2007 between 10:00am and 3:00pm. Delays of upto one hour may be experienced by pleasure craft wishing to transit this particular section of the canal between the above times. Pleasure craft owners are advised to be particularly careful whilst transiting the area and to allow additional time for their journey. All persons in charge of pleasure craft are asked to comply with any signs or instructions given by the Marshals who will be stationed at strategic points on the course.

Back the Bridgewater Way!
People in Trafford are being urged to back a bid to fund improvements in the Sale and Stretford areas of the Bridgewater Way. Sustrans' Connect 2 multi-million pound lottery bid incorporates 79 local schemes across the country, designed to help people walk and cycle more in their local area. The Bridgewater Way is one of these 79 schemes. This bid is one of four which go to a public TV vote in December. If Connect 2 is successful, the funding will concentrate on improving the quality and number of access points to the route as well as improving the surface of the towpath itself. Just over 58,000 people live within half a mile of the Sale area of the Bridgewater Way, with almost a quarter of a million people living within two miles. Councillor Ken Weston said: "This funding would be of great benefit to people both living in and visiting Trafford, enhancing their experience of one of the borough's most beautiful features, which is nearly 250 years old. I would urge everybody to back The Bridgewater Way and give their support to the bid." Four organisations, including 'Sustrans' Connect2 project, are competing for the £50 million grant. Each project will be the subject of a television programme on ITV1 in the week starting 3 December. Sustrans' Connect2 will be featured on Tuesday 4 December. Voting will take place online and by phone vote following the TV shows. Online voting for The People's £50 Million Lottery Giveaway will open at 9am on 26 November at www.thepeoples50million.org.uk. Telephone voting will be over the weekend 7-10 December.

Tesco use Manchester Ship Canal
Tesco has launched a scheme for transporting wine by boat on the Manchester Ship Canal from Liverpool to Manchester. This started last Thursday 18th October, and will comprise of three journeys a week along the 40 miles long waterway. The pioneering move will cut carbon emissions by 80% according to the supermarket giant.

Billinge Green Flash to be a Marina
Despite many objections, the most attractive of the flashes on the Trent & Mersey Canal at Middlewich is to be turned into a marina. The objections were on the basis that a marina would spoil the unique beauty of the area, but Vale Royal planning department allowed the development after resubmission of the planning application. With five new marinas in the past four years on the canal, this waterway is the most intensive for moored craft in the country.