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Leisure Owners Association 1982-2026
Since 1982, the Leisure Owners Association has represented the interests of Leisure yacht owners and provided a platform for Leisure owners to exchange views and ideas on how to maintain and sail these remarkably robust yachts.
A team of volunteers manage the Association. All funds raised are used solely to improve the experience of Leisure yacht owners worldwide.
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SAVE THE DATE!
EDYC hosts the biggest fleet of Leisure 17's in the UK.
Kick start the 2026 sailing season with the ‘Leisure 17 BIG Weekend’ at East Down Yacht Club, Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland.
There will be two days of racing across the Bank Holiday weekend of 23rd and 24th of May 2026.
Day 1 ‘racing around the cans’
Day 2 taking the form of a pursuit race stretching across the beauty of Strangford Lough.
Open to all Leisure 17s from across UK & Ireland, and from afar, come by sea, come by trailer. Find Full Details Here
See details of all Leisure Yachts, their specifications and orginal brochures
Technical help and Facebook Page
To post a question or a request for technical help about a Leisure Yacht, use the LOA Facebook Page.
Whatever your problem, you can be sure that over the last 40 years, another member has tried to find a solution and its already in the Knowledge Base.
The Forum and Leisure Yachts For Sale
At present the old Forum remains available for members who joined the Leisure Association before 1st May 2024.
Registered Association members receive notice of events and meetings, both local and national. Members also receive the Annual Report of the Association and may take part in the Annual General Meeting, held by video.
NB: LOA Members who registered before May 1st 2024 need not register again
Owners Manuals are available for the L17, L23 and the L27/29.
LeisureTime (earlier Saltings), the Association's magazine, has been published regularly for many years and the editions covering the last 10 years are available on here.
Contact Hurst Marine who have supported Leisure Yacht Owners for many years and provide both mouldings and spare parts. such as skegs, rudders,tillers, tiller head castings. and hatch hinges for Leisure Yachts.
Leisures - Small Yachts - Big Voyages
John Adam sailed solo across the Atlantic in 1968 in his appropriately name Leisure 17, Eve.
In four years, 1982-86, Svend Billesbolle sailed around the world in Leisure 23, Stormy.
In 2006 Oystein Djonne (skipper) and Vidar Krovik set off from Kopervik , Norway, in Leisure 22, Valkyrie, on a two year voyage, crossing the Pacific to New Zealand.
In 2012 a Turkish sailor, made a solo voyage from Bodrum, Turkey to Plymouth, UK in Leisure 17, Ninova.
The full story from the early beginnings in 1967 when Brian Meerloo founded Cobramold at the site of Stansted Airport, to the company liquidation in 1980 and the catastrophic fire at Brinecraft in 1990
East Down Yacht Club on Strangford Lough is home to the largest fleet of Leisure 17s, anywhere. EDYC
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