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Blue Water Newsletter

Posted on: 07/05/2010

The very first newsletter of the Blue Water Section is availiable here.

Greek "Special" taxes

Posted on: 06/05/2010

Greek "Special" Tax, as at 7 May 2010 ------------------ Amended 14 May 2010 CA has been reliably informed that all port police were instructed...

Birth of the CA Blue Water Section

Posted on: 07/04/2010

In Carlisle Bay, Barbados several of the boats at anchor belonged to CA members who had independently crossed the Atlantic in December 2009 and...

Inshore Forecasts - MCA accuracy assessment

Posted on: 11/03/2010

In recent months, there has been some criticism of Met Office Inshore Forecasts for UK waters. In a letter published in the April PBO, the MCA has...

West of Scotland NAVTEX reception

Posted on: 26/02/2010

Around the west of Scotland Portpatrick reception can be difficult to impossible because of topography. On 518 kHz, Malin Head broadcasts Sea Area...

Launch of ‘Blue Water’ Section

Posted on: 20/02/2010

It is the season to be out there cruising, sailors are dropping anchor and looking through the binoculars’ at the cross trees of the others in...

Boat Show Success!

Posted on: 19/01/2010

The Cruising Association enjoyed a very successful London Boat Show this year. We were delighted to welcome almost 400 of our members to our stand,...

CA members kidnapped

Posted on: 28/10/2009

CA members Rachel and Paul Chandler are believed to have been kidnapped by pirates in the Indian Ocean. The couple were cruising in their Rival 38...

Piracy

Posted on: 27/10/2009

Attached (below) is Ted Osborn's article "Where have all the pirates gone?" from the September issue of Cruising.

Search the library catalogue and the yearbook

Posted on: 15/10/2009

We're happy to announce several new features on MyCA. The library catalogue has now been moved to our online database by Ivan Andrews and you can...