University of Portsmouth Offshore Sailing Club
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The University of Portsmouth Offshore Sailing Club, or UPOSC, is a sailing club of the University of Portsmouth, in Portsmouth, United Kingdom. (also known as the University of Portsmouth Offshore Racing Club, or UPORC)
[edit] About the club
The club is based, predictably, at the University of Portsmouth in the South of England. It is one of the clubs part of the University of Portsmouth's Athletics Union part of the University of Portsmouth Students Union UPSU. UPSC is separate from UPSC University of Portsmouth Sailing Club. The club has a membership of around 80 and is a well known club in the university.
UPOSC sails larger yachts in the solent, but also has large number of members that are keen asymmetric dinghy sailors. The biggest event of the year in the club's calendar is the BUSA national championships at Easter, where the club competes against around 40 other British universities for a chance to represent the country at the student yachting worlds.
