Western Esplanade, Alexandra Y.C. Dinghy Park. A Post Ww2 Facility.

A Memory of Southend-on-Sea.

As the classic 18ft long local dayboat classes became more expensive to build and maintain, there was an explosion of smaller, cheaper racing dinghy classes all round the UK, postWW2. Though the local Thames Estuar-y and Essex- One Designs continued to race from the Alexandra Yacht Club, younger members were racing the new dinghy classes, Enterprises, Fireflies, Fireballs, GP14's, Hornets, National 12's, and Merlin Rockets, etc., - at all of the local 6 sailing clubs from the Thorpe Bay YC at Shoeburyness in the East, to the Leigh Sailing Club in the West.