IOS Sailing Community is a long-established independent website promoting Isle Of Sheppey's superb sailing waters & facilities and also provides one of the most popular free WeatherCam services in the South East.

Established in 1996, the site was voluntarily created as a personal project to build a website to help promote and support IOS Sailing Club, one of the first sailing clubs to have a web presence.

Since 2003, it has gone on to develop into one of the most popular weather sites in the South East thanks to the addition of a bespoke, state-of-the-art online WeatherCam system funded, developed & run by Designbell.uk.

In July 2014, after 18 years successfully representing the club online, a new committee desiring a website of their own, decided on a 'parting of the ways' at short notice, requiring removal of the WeatherCam system and for the site to cease using the club's name.

To facilitate this, whilst continuing to support the club & benefit the sailing community, the website was renamed IOS Sailing Community providing more flexibility, and the WeatherCam system relocated, rebuilt, and expanded with the help of other local community organisations.

As of the sailing club's 2016 AGM, members paved the way for both parties to once again work more closely together.

IOS Sailing Community aims to provide high-quality sailing and weather related info for the Isle Of Sheppey and surrounding areas, plus the wider sailing community.

The website was created & has been run by James Bell since 1996. An island based sailor since age 4; an ex-Kent Schools Sailing Association member; winner of the medium handicap & second in the fast handicap at the 1993 National Schools Sailing Association Regatta at Grafham; a Life Honorary Rear Commodore of IOS Sailing Club; two years as Rear-Commodore Sailing re-establishing a regular racing programme following a long absence of regular competitive sailing, followed by a further 8 years as the club's youngest Commodore (at age 26) reviving, modernising, developing & growing membership of the club, including organising ten consecutive Round the Island Races (2002-2011), during which time entries to the race almost tripled. In 2017, serving a further 6 years as Commodore, overseeing 6 more island races and guiding the club to emerge successfully from the global pandemic.