The Bell Buoy Races are held at the Taw and Torridge Yacht Club at Instow held on the estuary at the confluence of the Torridge and Taw rivers with the markers being the navigational buoys called Newquay, Westleigh or Railway and Sprat. Bell buoys used to ring a bell triggered by the rolling of the waves. The Club adopted the new seventeen feet one-design clinker with Bermudan rig in the 1920s and raced from the Clubhouse known as the Roundhouse at Instow Quay.