The Solway Yacht Club offers a cordial invitation to visiting sailors.

This page highlights local attractions and facilities in and around the village where transport is not required. For information on the wider area visit Dumfries & Galloway Tourist Board site - press here.

The Solway Yacht Club offers drying out pontoon berths for approximately 6 yachts at £12 per night payable at the Mariner Hotel at the head of the pier.

For Dinghy Sailors a temporary membership is available through the Secretary for £29.50 per week. An application form can be down loaded in pdf format press here. To E-mail press here.

Visitors will be given a returnable door entry card to provide access to Showers and Toilets. There are water and electricity points on the pier and pontoons.

We can sail to and from the pontoons and slipway between 2.5 to 3 hours each side of high tide. The channel is buoyed and there are few hazards in the bay or estuary (see chart)

The village has a well equipped chandlers at the Kippford Slipway. A bus service calls at the village and stops at the shelter in the village opposite the Chandlers.

The Kippford Caravan Park (up the hill on the way out of the village) provides a seasonal shop with a wide range of fresh foods, newspapers etc. It also has cycle hire.

Adjacent to the Caravan Park is a Golf Course which welcomes visitors.

Kippford has two hostelries, the Anchor and the Mariner both of which do bar meals.

There are some spectacular walks from the village and the Jubilee Path between Kippford to Rockcliffe is publicised as one of Scotland's best. There is the Rockcliffe Gallery in the Barons Craig Hotel and a tea shop in Rockcliffe, on the left, just where the road leaves the village.

The path along the shore from Rockcliffe to Castle Point will not disappoint.

Solway Smuggling - during the 18th century the Solway was one of the most prolific smuggling areas in the country, particularly, with the independence of the Isle of Man and the numerous creeks, coves and caves, between Southerness and Fleet. The link will take you a summary of smugglers tales.

Rough Island, owned by the National Trust for Scotland is a Bird Sanctuary and can be visited over the causeway at low tide (except June and July when seabirds are nesting).