5TH PSCS SQUIB KEELBOAT CHAMPIONSHIP

Peninsular Sailing Club Selangor (PSCS) following the success of the first four events greatly enjoyed by competitors and with great enthusiasm for a continuation is delighted to announce the dates and venue of the fifth Nat Squib Championship to be held on Friday , Saturday and Sunday 12/13/14 June 2026

PSCS are honoured again to have the support of Phuket-based Simon James as the event’s Race Officer. Simon is a much r events including Phuket Race Week. His presence will again ensure fair and well organised racing for all competitors.
Pulau Indah’s clean water and wide rivers provide the perfect backdrop to the event. The majority of the racing program will take place in front of the club house, providing spectators with an excellent view, whilst the long distance races will take competitors out into the open water of the Melaka Straits.

Competitors can expect three days of well organised, competitive One Design Racing with light but steady winds and an interesting social program.

PSCS was founded in 2016 and is based at the Pulau Indah Marina, the coastal area of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Malaysia. The Club is conveniently located near Port Klang on the west coast of Malaysia, on a peninsular midway along the Melaka Straits. A dedicated sailing club, PSC is the vision of five likeminded individuals, each themself a yacht owner with a passion for sailing.

PSCS is proudly the type of Sailing Club created for sailors by sailors, dedicated to sailing and developing the future generations of sailors in Malaysia.

The UK National Squib class has become an important part of the sailing club’s fleet. PSCS Commodore Jeremy Camps began to build the fleet in 2016 and has now imported 18 boats , from the UK. Sourced from all over the country, including boats from Burnham on Crouch, Waldringfield, Weymouth and Medway, they are shipped to Malaysia in pairs in a 40 x 40 foot container, complete with road trailers, sails and spars. Those which are in a state of disrepair are refurbished by local shipwrights.

PSCS now has a recognised Squib fleet of 18 boats, sailed every Sunday throughout the year by PSC’s 51 members, who range from sailing novices to highly competent ocean racers. The Squibs have been fundamental in bringing new sailors onto the water and are the perfect boat for training beginners and old hands alike.

Major developments at PSC include the establishment of the Beruang Junior Sailing club for members children.

We have a qualified and experienced Instructor Mr Hazlan formerly based in Port Dickson with a wealth of sailing and organisational experience.

We continue to offer courses adding an Introduction to Sailing to our Learn to Sail and Advanced Helming and Crewing Techniques courses, recently our member Faheem has organised Try Sailing Courses which have proved popular for people to try. Our PR on Instagram and YouTube has brought the availability of reasonable-cost sailing at PSC to more people.

We want more to share the enjoyment it gives us PSC are a recognised Squib Fleet and are fully supported by the National Squib Association. As interest grow the intention is to bring in more boats expanding what is already by far the largest One Design Keelboat Class in Malaysia.

The Squib is a classic racing keelboat. The concept originated by Oliver Lee in Essex, England, half a century ago is still very successful, with a vibrant and strong class association and active fleets who include current, past and future world champions in many top sailing classes.

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Entry forms, Notice Of Race(NOR) and Sailing instructions are available at the bottom.
For more information please email: Jeremy at commodorepcsc(@)gmail.com or Faheem at bedarr(DOT)boatique(@)gmail.com

About the National Squib
The Squib a 19ft keelboat has been described as “a lovely little yacht” but when being sailed competitively has performance characteristics more akin to a racing dinghy.

One of the main strengths of the one design Squib is that a properly prepared boat – either a new one or a boat originally up to forty years old – can be sailed competitively in the national fleet for 10 or even twenty years, thus making the best of any initial investment. It is not necessary to change boats regularly to be competitive.

The Squib was designed in the UK by Oliver Lee in 1967 as a scaled down version of the Ajax 23. The prototype was a cold moulded wooden hull, with an iron keel. It was extensively and successfully tested in 1967/68 and was used as a plug for the first GRP Squib launched in June 1968.

The first fleet was formed at the Royal Corinthian YC in Burnham, where the first 150 or so boats were built by Oliver Lee (up to 157 Cheque Mate). Soon Squib fleets were established elsewhere on the East Coast, at Waldringfield and Aldeburgh, and also spread to the South and South West Coasts including Brixham, and to Wales at Abersoch and Anglesey.

The total number of boats produced now approaches 900 of which two thirds are registered with the association. They are raced on the East, South, South West, and North East coasts of England, in Scotland, Wales and in Ireland (North and South), in nearly 30 fleets. Several clubs have between 20 -30 registered boats.

PSCS are the only recognised National Squib fleet outside the UK and Ireland.

About Peninsular Sailing Club Selangor

PSCS was founded in 2016 as a sailing club rather than a social club with a sailing section. Based at the Pulau Indah Marina, PSCS boasts clear water and is just two miles from the Malacca Straits.
This is an open event and we hope our brother sailing yacht clubs will also participate.

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