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Shortly before Uganda’s independence, a group of like-minded people with a common interest in sail and/or power boating, came together and informally formed the nucleus of what was to become the Entebbe Sailing Club(ESC). In 1964 following their first committee election, obtained a small plot of land on the Entebbe foreshore. With a shipping container as the first clubhouse, boats were kept on the beach. Members came mostly from Kampala each weekend and in time resulted in families and friends camping on the lake shore, spending their weekends enjoying one another’s company and sharing adventures with their assorted mix of boats

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