Closing Muster 2026

Date: 26 September 2026

Location: Bardowie Loch (Clyde Cruising Club), Bardowie, Scotland

Organizer: Clyde Cruising Club

The Closing Muster is the Clyde Cruising Club's traditional end to the sailing season, held on the Firth of Clyde on 26 and 27 September 2026. It has two parts. Racers sail the Closing Muster Race on the Saturday, while the cruising fleet makes a more relaxed passage from Rothesay Bay through the Kyles of Bute to Tarbert on Loch Fyne, with the option of joining anywhere along the route, including around Garroch Head for boats coming up from the south. Everyone ends up in Tarbert Harbour for the night, which is the real point of a muster: rafted boats, a busy quay and a shared evening ashore before the fleet scatters for winter. The club dates from 1909 and its musters are a fixture of west of Scotland sailing. The Kyles in late September, with autumn colour coming onto the hillsides, make a fine last sail of the year.

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• Tarbert Race and Joint Muster with FYC 2026 — 8 August 2026 · Tarbert, Scotland
• Dinghy Section Summer Regatta (including the Cairnie Cup) 2026 — 15 August 2026 · Bardowie, Scotland
• Laird Trophy Inter School Event 2026 — 12 September 2026 · Bardowie, Scotland

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Sailing nearby

Planning to attend? These clubs, marinas, schools and other sailing places are close to Bardowie and worth a visit while you are in the area:

• Aberdeen Maritime Museum — Maritime Museums, Aberdeen, Scotland
• Scottish Maritime Museum — Maritime Museums, Dumbarton, Scotland

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