About us

In 2012, after the local council stopped providing Watersports facilities, Medway Watersports Trust was formed.

Medway Watersports Trust is an RYA (Royal Yachting Association) training centre, a British Canoeing training centre and is licensed by the Adventure Activities Licensing Services to provide facilities to local schools and youth organisations.

We are a volunteer led organisation and always welcome new volunteers to help with maintaining our boats and premises and staging events and Watersports training.

Our Trust’s Mission, Vision & Values:

Mission

Access to the water for everyone.

Vision

To be the lead water sports & land-based adventurous activities provider within the Medway Towns for everyone, through the medium of water sports and adventurous activities; with a special focus on the development of young people in achieving their full potential, physically, intellectually and socially to support them in becoming positive members of society.

Values

  • Respect – We treat each other and our visitors fairly and honestly at all times
  • Community – We recognise and value our position within the local community
  • Integrity – We are always honest and truthful
  • Equality – We always treat everyone the same
  • Safety – We ensure that we make the safety of our volunteers and visitors our number one priority

Rochester viewed from the Medway, Rochester, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Europe

River Medway

The River Medway has a long tradition of sailing from the days when the nations sailing boats were built at Chatham Dockyard. HMS Victory was built at Chatham and was moored there for the first 13 years of its life. Nelson lived locally and eventually chose the HMS Victory as his flagship where it led the British fleet to victory at the battle of Trafalgar.

Learn more about HMS victory here.

Above link : https://www.hms-victory.com/history

The public slipway at the Strand has been in existence before Vice-Admiral Nelson’s base in Chatham pre 1800s, and is still very much in use today by Medway Watersports, Medway Cruising Club and the local population. With Medway Council’s financial help ther causeway has been given an extended lease of life. This will enable launching at the Strand to be considerably easier and for longer periods of the day. Charles Dickens’ father was posted to the naval dockyard at Chatham in 1817 where at that time Chatham dockyard was the greatest dockyard of the day.