Join us for our annual traditional carol service at St Anne’s Limehouse, followed by an informal Christmas supper at CA House. Details and times will be published later along with a booking link.
Details will be added when the speaker and is confirmed for our annual joint event with the Royal Institute of Navigation.
Please note: lectures can be watched live online but we do not generally make recordings available after the event, for a number of reasons relating to time and copyright issues.
In a field in land-locked Armenia, there lies a full-scale replica of a 13th century merchant ship. She was modelled from a time when the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia had a coastline and a mercantile fleet. Amazingly, the project was conceived when Armenia was part of the Soviet Union and built in a time of turmoil and war. When Armenia found itself a free country, the ship was transported to the Black Sea and launched.
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 seriously disabled and with limited speech, it really wasn’t a practicable option. They continued to sail gently, with crew, in the waters of the East Coast, the Netherlands and France.
Like taxes, growing old is inevitable! For some it may mean giving up sailing while others, like Gilbert, find a way of dealing with the changes associated with ageing so they can continue to enjoy a life with boats. Gilbert has been sailing for nearly 50 years and the first adaptation he made was moving from sail to power. No more aching hands from cold, wet ropes. Once this jump was made he found ways to make time on the water even more safe and enjoyable.
Julia, an executive coach, non-executive director and former CA Council member, has recently completed her first transatlantic sail on a 42-foot sailing boat with her husband, Rupert Wainwright, as co-skipper and their friend, Lawrence, as crew.
It seems to me that I have been like a shuttlecock bandied to and fro by lunatics. I seem to have lived not one life but snatches from a dozen different lives. (Arthur Ransome’s Autobiography)
Retirement in April 2020 would finally allow David to spend the summers cruising and for his first year he had chosen the western Baltic Sea. Then the world had a pandemic and retirement was put on hold, as was the cruise. As restrictions started to be eased in 2021 David stayed in home waters for a five-month circumnavigation of Great Britain, but in May 2023 he finally set forth on his journey to Germany, Denmark and Sweden via the Netherlands and the Kiel canal.
Talk synopsis to be confirmed. The original talk scheduled for this date, A journey round Navionics charts by Emma Maule, has now been postponed and a future date will be advised when confirmed.
For almost a century, gangs of men called Muddies sailed Thames barges to the remote salt marshes of the Medway estuary, to dig tons of mud to satisfy the relentless demands of the cement industry. They worked hard, drank hard, got into fights, and changed the tidal flow of a river, forever. An entertaining journey through an almost forgotten piece of unique history.
