A big welcome to CA members Fiona and Malcolm, who took over the helm of the CA Wessex Section at the beginning of December 2022.
About Fiona - Fiona and her husband Bob live in Salisbury. Having chartered boats for occasional holidays over many years, they plunged into boat ownership in 2020. Over three seasons, they have sailed their wooden ketch from Plymouth to Fehmarn, Germany, exploring eight countries along the way, and they expect to spend the next few summers in the Baltic.
About Malcolm - Malcolm, known as ‘Denny’, sails with his wife Julie and they live in Poole.They keep their Maxi 1100 in Arzal in Southern Brittany. As well as sailing the Atlantic coast of France, they have cruised in Scotland, the Baltic, Italy, UK South coast, English Channel and Brittany. Denny has been a member of the CA since 2007.
The geographic area for the Wessex Section stretches along the coast from Beaulieu River to West Bay and inland north to Salisbury. If you live in ‘Wessex‘, keep a boat here, or are planning to visit the area, you are welcome to join the Section by logging into your online account, going to Wessex Section and clicking ‘Join’.
Next Wessex Section meeting
CA members (free) and non-members (tickets £3) are invited to the Wessex Section ‘Near and Far - Sharing our Love of Sailing’ evening at Lilliput Sailing Club, Poole on the evening of Tuesday 17 January 2023. Click here to find out more.
About CA Sections
Our voluntary Section Secretaries run and lead the CA Sections for groups of CA members. The CA has two types of Sections, 'Cruising Sections’ cover sea areas, whilst ‘Local Sections’ are UK-based.
Cruising Sections cover popular areas like the English Channel, the Mediterranean or European inland waterways. Local Sections service most of the UK, both in and out of the sailing season. There’s also an Antipodean Section for members living in Australia and New Zealand who sail in Europe during northern hemisphere summers and arrange get-togethers Down Under in their summer.
- Cruising Sections: Baltic, Biscay, Blue Water, Celtic, Channel, European Inland Waterways, Mediterranean, North Sea
- Local Sections: Antipodean, CA London, Essex, Kent, Solent, South West, Suffolk, Thames Valley, Wessex
Sections run events like rallies, social get-togethers, seminars and lectures throughout the year as well as sharing local cruising information, including to our forums, Cruising Guides and the CA Almanac. Joining Sections is a great way to meet and make friends with people who live or sail near you, and to pick lots of local knowledge.
Many CA Sections use dedicated online forums to exchange information, which CA members can access whether you’re a Section member or not. You can also set up automatic forwarding of posts from any forum and the ‘cruising mode’ helps you control receipt of emails when airtime might be expensive or bandwidths restricted.
28 December 2022