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Dieppe Dash is an exciting annual cross-channel boating event that was conceived by Brighton Marina Yacht Club (BMYC) with support of Ports de Normandie, Syndicat Mixte du Port Dieppe, and Cercle de la Voile de Dieppe (CVD), as a way of pulling together boat owners of all types, but with a common goal of enjoying their boats and meeting like minded people. You are more likely to make a trip if you have planned it and travel with other boats. We want your boats to leave their moorings and set sail.

Dieppe Dash takes place in the English Channel between Brighton/Newhaven area of the south coast of England, and Dieppe in the Normandy region on the northern coast of France, the outbound passage on the Friday leading into the first May Bank Holiday weekend of the United Kingdom public holidays calendar.

Dieppe Dash includes pre-event talks, an outbound sail/motor cruising rally or a yacht race, shore side events in Dieppe and a cruise or race return passage.

The Dieppe Dash Safety Plan provides guidance for you, the Person-in-Charge to create your sea-safety plan, and a check-in and check-out scheme (SOSDAS) to monitor your ‘at sea’ status. We also use AIS to track boats.

Whether motoring a converted trawler, racing a IRC-rated boat or and everything in between, once in Dieppe we are all taking part for the same reasons, enjoying use of our personal laeisure craft and it shows! No other event has the atmosphere and fun factor. Once you have taken part it will become your annual shakedown cruise.

The port of Dieppe is the perfect venue with hundreds of restaurants and the beautiful town to explore. It is certainly one of the best sailing venues on the French channel coast.

First Time Cross-Channel Sailing?

The Dieppe Dash is the perfect event for your first channel, crossing with:

• pre-Dash events to notify and reassure
• a check-in/check-out safety scheme monitoing at-sea status
• being at the beginning of the season, leaving plenty of time to make a solo trip later in the summer.

You are more likely to make a passage if you have planned it with other boat owners, and make the passage in company.

Yacht Racing

For those interested in racing, Dieppe Dash provides the perfect offshore challenge. Dieppe Dash has the support and sponsorship from the largest names in sailing. Make no mistake the competition is always strong. Dieppe Dash also has some fun races back to various home ports organised between the participants.

Yacht Cruising

Sail in like-minded company and enjoy a great weekend in France. Many previous participants will tell you that the hospitality and support of the port of Dieppe and the French stakeholders is quite astonishing. The Yacht club has a warm welcome with food and drink waiting for you when you arrive in Dieppe on the Friday evening, as well as a weekend schedule including the prize giving.

Motor Cruising rally

Motor cruisers are very important to the Dieppe Dash. We hope though that, even if this is the only trip of the year, motor boaters will join our ever-growing community to participate this year alongside others as they have in the past.