Suffolk

Suffolk Event Dates for Winter 2024-25

Date: 
Sat, 12/10/2024 - 11:00

The Suffolk Winter 2024 - 25 Talks start on Saturday 12th October 2024.

The dates of all the events are listed below.

We shall be meeting at our normal venue, the Royal Harwich Yacht Club on the River Orwell outside Ipswich.

Doors open for the Saturday events at 18:00 and on Thursdays at 11:00.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Simon and Georgette Harrison

Near and Far - Short Talks plus Photo Competition Judging - Booking Open

Date: 
Sat, 09/03/2024 - 18:00

This popular annual event with four short talks and the Photographic Competition judged by attendees, this year covers the world:

Bird watching from the deck of Thames Sailing Barge Victor - Book Now

Date: 
Tue, 24/10/2023 - 09:30

Join us for a bird watching cruise on board the Thames Sailing Barge Victor along Suffolk's peaceful Orwell and Stour Rivers.

Date: Tuesday 24th October 2023 at 09:30. Victor will return to RHYC at around 16:00, wind and tide willing......

Guide: Bird and wildlife expert Rick will be our guide.

The Thames Estuary and Beyond - All Day Seminar chaired by Garth Cooper - Booking Closed

Date: 
Sat, 02/03/2024 - 10:00

For all those who sail, or wish to sail, in the Thames Estuary and further afield, with the latest information on navigating with the tides, around or over the sands, through the windfarms and across the traffic separation schemes; also covering routes to the near continent.

East Coast Bank Holiday Rally - Booking Open

Date: 
Sat, 04/05/2024 - 17:00 to Mon, 06/05/2024 - 10:00

Another event-packed Bank Holiday weekend for all CA East Coast Sailors. Suffolk, Essex and Kent CA Members usually attend with a few from further away, and all are most welcome. 

Site Visit to Suffolk Marine Safety, Great Blakenham near Ipswich

Date: 
Fri, 17/11/2023 - 10:00

Liferaft and Lifejacket servicing experts, Suffolk Marine Safety, have agreed to explain what they do, and what they find, when servicing our kit, and give us a demonstration of MOB procedures. They will also show us their range of the latest electronic safety equipment including laser flares, EPIRBs and MOB alerts.

East Coast Shipwrecks by Robert Smith - Booking Open

Date: 
Thu, 21/03/2024 - 11:00

London Walks Guide and historian, Robert Smith, has agreed to visit us in Suffolk to tell us about our local shipwrecks. He is an author, college lecturer and, as a guide, offers twenty historical walks around London and further afield, but for this talk we may remain seated at RHYC.

Date and Time: Thursday 21st March 2024, Doors open at 11:00, Talk at 11:30, Lunch at 13:00.

Shotley Pier, Past, Present and Future, by its Rescuers - Booking Open

Date: 
Thu, 29/02/2024 - 11:00

Peter Stebbings, with another volunteer director of the “Shotley Heritage Charitable Community Benefit Society", will explain the history of this local landmark, and the work being undertaken to restore it.

The talk will cover:

To Scotland with Attitude by Cathy Brown - Booking Open

Date: 
Sat, 10/02/2024 - 18:00

Past editor of Cruising and still a columnist, Cathy will reveal all about her and Richard's trip through the Caledonian Canal to the Western Isles, their adventures, and encounters en route, with a liberal sprinkling of humour. The talk will also cover their migration from sail to power.

Cruising to Antarctica by Andy Beharrell - Booking Open

Date: 
Thu, 25/01/2024 - 11:00

Antarctica is one of the driest and windiest places on earth. It is the single biggest mass of ice in the world and can sometimes be up to four miles thick. The continent as a whole contains about 90 percent of the planet's freshwater ice and around 70 percent of the total fresh water on earth!  Yet around Antarctica the waters teem with life. In 2022 Andy Beharrell visited South Georgia and Antarctica on a 1915 Dutch Herring Drifter and will illustrate the talk with photos from that trip.