Join the CA Community - afloat & ashore

Check out the Sections below to find a Cruising Association group near you, check out the events they’re running and find their contact details.

'Cruising Sections’ cover sea areas whilst ‘Local Sections’ are UK-based. There’s also an Antipodean Section for members ‘down under’ and a Motorboat Section for those cruising in motorboats.

When you join consider signing up to at least two Sections, one near home and another where you want to cruise. You can join as many Sections as you like – it’s FREE - and there are opportunities to get involved in events and discussions most relevant to you and your cruising.

Cruising Sections use dedicated online forums to exchange information. As a CA member you can access any forum at any time, whether you’re a Section member or not. You can even 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.

Cruising Sections

Baltic

Covers the Baltic Sea, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Faroes. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring.

Biscay

Covers Western France, Spain and Portugal as well as crossing Biscay. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring.

Blue Water

For those sailing outside of European waters. Holds a popular Blue Water seminar in the summer.

Celtic

Covers waters from Land’s End to Cape Wrath. Meets at various west coast venues to share knowledge on all aspects of cruising the region.

Channel

For those cruising the south coast of the UK, Channel Islands, and France from the Belgian border to NW Brittany. Holds an annual seminar and summer rally/cruise-in-company.

European Inland Waterways

Covers over 30,000 km of navigable rivers and canals passing through over 20 countries. Annual seminar and lunch each autumn at CA House.

Mediterranean

Covers the Mediterranean from Spain and Morocco in the west to the Levant in the east, and includes the Black Sea. Meets at CA House in the winter, and afloat in the summer.

Motorboat

The Motorboat Section aims to bring together motorboaters where ever they are and whatever type of motorboating they enjoy.

North Sea

Covers the UK, Belgian and Dutch coasts. Meets at East Coast venues to share knowledge on all aspects of cruising the region.

Local / UK Sections

Antipodean

For members who live in Australia and New Zealand and who sail in the Northern Hemisphere.

CA London

CA London events are held at our Limehouse HQ.

Essex

Meetings held at Blackwater Sailing Club and mid-week lunches arranged.

Kent

Kent Section's 'Winter Warmers', talks by a variety of speakers, will be held via Zoom for the forseeable future.

Solent

Summer rallies with weekend meets. Winter talks with ‘club’ suppers usually at a Hamble yacht club or marina.

South West

For members living in or cruising the areas from Portland Bill to the Isles of Scilly and along the north coast of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset to Bristol.

Suffolk

Joint meetings are arranged with the Royal Harwich Yacht Club at Woolverstone.

Thames Valley

Winter talks are held in partnership with the Gerrards Cross Sailing Association (GXSA) at Colston Hall at The Memorial Centre in Gerrards Cross.

Wessex

Talks are held at Lilliput Sailing Club, Poole.

Forthcoming Section Events

Non-members are welcome to attend

CA London club supper
Date: 16/07/2025

Come along to CA House to enjoy a chance to meet CA friends and share a meal and a drink or two. These events are quite informal. Just book your place through the website...

CA London club supper
Date: 13/08/2025

Come along to CA House to enjoy a chance to meet CA friends and share a meal and a drink or two. These events are quite informal. Just book your place through the website...

Med Section Summer Party
Date: 23/08/2025

Forget Wimbledon, Glyndebourne and shanty singing at the Rose and Crown. The premier social event of the summer is the Mediterranean Section Summer Party...

CA London club supper
Date: 17/09/2025

Come along to CA House to enjoy a chance to meet CA friends and share a meal and a drink or two. These events are quite informal. Just book your place through the website...

South West Fowey Rally
Date: 19/09/2025

We will be organising a South West Section Rally in Fowey over the weekend of Friday 19 - Sunday 21 September 2025. Save the date in your calendars and more details will follow here and in South West...

From Racing to Cruising and back by Patrick Blake
Date: 09/10/2025

Patrick started dinghy sailing at age 13 and went on to win several National Championships in different classes including the International Flying Dutchman class, but never got to compete in the...

Suffolk Section - Dates for Events - October 2025 to May 2026
Date: 11/10/2025

Click here for details of the winter talk programme. Booking will open at the end of the summer. Winter Talks...

Charting Channels and Anchorages of the West Coast of Scotland
Date: 21/10/2025

Bob Bradfield has devoted much of the last fifteen years to producing 750 charts of channels and anchorages on the West Coast of Scotland. These typically run on an iPad or Android tablet and...

Sailing Down Under by CA member Roger Lloyd
Date: 13/11/2025

This will be an evening of photos and reminiscences of sailing in Australia & New Zealand. Roger has crewed on his friend's S&S 51' around Tasmania twice in the VDL cruises, and also across...

Harbour Master Sailing Challenge
Date: 15/11/2025

Harbour Masters, those men and women who keep our harbours open and seaways safe, are often the unsung heroes of the sailing community. This is their story. In 2019 Mark Ashley-Miller set off in...

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