The area is known as ‘Chelsea-on-Sea’ and is popular with well-heeled visitors and second-home owners.
A villager connected with the sailing club said: ‘I have seen Kate bringing George and Charlotte here for lessons. You often see their car arrive.’Someone takes them out so that they can learn the ropes, while Kate stays on shore. She waits in the club and sits on the balcony. She likes reading and sunbathing.
‘Sometimes William is here as well, keeping an eye out and watching their boat coming back. It is great that they have a chance to do normal things.
‘I know they have their own boat on one of the creeks around here, and a beach hut as well.’
The villager said she expects Prince Louis, six, to join in the sailing fun when he is older.
Kate learned to sail as a child and worked as a deckhand on luxury yachts in the Solent in her late teens.
She has spoken of her love of the ocean and she and William, who also learned to sail as a child, have raced against each other during official duties, including a rain-lashed regatta in the Bahamas two years ago, which ended in victory for the future king.
