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Your First Channel Crossing – a CA Channel Section Seminar
Date: 25/01/2026
For many skippers a first crossing of the English Channel is a big step in their cruising accomplishments – one undertaken with some trepidation.
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Crewing Service meeting
Date: 05/02/2026
If you're a skipper looking for crew or a crewing member looking for opportunities to get onto the water for local or coastal cruising, exploring the inland waterways of Europe, discovering new des
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Anchoring and Rodes by CA member John Barry
Date: 12/02/2026
This talk is about how anchor rodes work, how they respond to the various forces acting on them, and how understanding them can help give your anchor an easier time and enable you to rest easy at n
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To Svalbard and 80 degrees North
Date: 17/02/2026
Bob Hendicott has sailed since he was a child and has owned Rosinis, his Rustler 36, for 15 years. He has cruised Rosinis extensively, accumulating some 30,000NM, much of it sailed solo.
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Crossing Biscay Seminar
Date: 28/02/2026
For many sailors, crossing the Bay of Biscay is one of the longest and most challenging passages they’ve attempted.
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Crewing Service meeting
Date: 01/03/2026
Our Sunday daytime Crewing Service meeting will give those skippers and crew not able to attend the Thursday evening meetings the chance to meet and discuss plans for the 2026 season.
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Voyage around the UK in memory of Sam by CA member Camilla Hermann
Date: 12/03/2026
Cruising editor Camilla Herrmann and her husband Sam Brown always wanted to sail around Britain in their Westerly Storm Kalessin of Orwell, but after Sam suffered a stroke in 2012 which left him se
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Life and Times of a Harwich Harbour Authority Pilot
Date: 14/03/2026
A light-hearted evening talking about the life of a sailor and the work of a pilot at Harwich Haven Authority.
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Operation PLUTO
Date: 17/03/2026
Operation PLUTO - Pipeline under the ocean - was an ambitious and top secret operation to lay a series of pipelines across the English Channel from the south coast of England to France following th
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Eyes of the Few - Bawdsey Radar
Date: 26/03/2026
The fascinating story of why, how and by whom radar was developed in the 1930s and the role it played in the Battle of Britain.
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