Brambles Cricket


The Brambles sandbank appears only once a year, and then only for about an hour, midway between Southampton and the Isle of Wight. When it does, members of The Royal Southern Yacht Club at Hamble and the Island Sailing Club on the Isle of Wight race out to it, for a game of cricket. Dozens of boats containing participants and spectators wait around Bramble Bank for the sea to subside and reveal the bank once more. As soon as it does the stumps are put up and the match gets under way. To any passing ferries and tankers the event […]