The Clyde Cruising Club Seamanship & Pilotage Trust was formed in 1984 as a Charitable Trust set up by the Clyde Cruising Club primarily to promote the following aims:

1. to educate the public in the knowledge and practice of seamanship with a view to improving safety at sea
2. to provide facilities for recreation, connected with sailing, for young people, especially those from deprived areas, with a view to improving the conditions of life of such persons
3. to organise courses and provide special equipment to enable handicapped people to sail
4. to advance the education of the public in the practice of pilotage and coastal and ocean navigation
5. to assist in the preservation of craft, property and navigational and other records of significance in connection with the sea and sailing

One of the first projects of the Trust was the acquisition of six Optimist Dinghies and Trailer. Administered in conjunction with the RYA Scotland this project has proved to be of a tremendous success with young prospective sailors. The dinghies may be borrowed by a club, school, or youth club and give endless hours of sailing practice to young people. The Trust owns Bardowie Loch where the dinghy section have a clubhouse and organise sailing during the Spring, Summer and Autumn, for all ages.