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 and turn up in time to order your meal, ideally before 7pm. The menu isn’t announced in advance but there’s always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
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 and turn up in time to order your meal, ideally before 7pm. The menu isn’t announced in advance but there’s always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
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 and turn up in time to order your meal, ideally before 7pm. The menu isn’t announced in advance but there’s always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
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 and turn up in time to order your meal, ideally before 7pm. The menu isn’t announced in advance but there’s always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
Date: Wednesday 4 June 2025 Note change of date from 11 June
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 and turn up in time to order your meal, ideally before 7pm. The menu isn’t announced in advance but there’s always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
What will cruising look like in the next decade or so? Practical Boat Owner editor, Katy Stickland, has spoken to experts and looked at trends to find out how pathways into sailing and boating have changed, looking at models of boat ownership and how this will impact the type of cruising people will be doing, as well as what boats and gear might look like by 2050.
The talk will be followed by the award of the CA’s log competition prizes.
"Earth is pear-shaped" became headline news in March 1958 when the Vanguard satellite’s orbit deviated from expectations, irreparably confusing a generation of schoolchildren and their geography teachers.
That the Earth is round had been known for centuries; that it might also be (very) slightly oval was also long-suspected, although we disagreed with the French as to which way the oval went. How did we work it out?
Bob will talk about some of the stand-out places to visit and some of the much less well known. He will also suggest ways of making the very best of the time available to you, including exploiting the weather, whatever it serves up, and everything else the West Coast has to offer. He will illustrate his talk with photos but also with his charts and with anecdotes from his 15 years of surveying in West Coast waters.
This is a joint event with the Mediterranean Section. Charles and Elizabeth brought their twin-keel Westerly Ocean 33 Aura across France to the Med in 2012 and after exploring Med Spain, France and Italy they arrived in Croatia for the first time in 2015. Other cruisers said they should go to Greece, and in 2017 they did, and also to Istanbul and south-west Turkey. Then in 2023, notwithstanding Croatia’s reputation for crowds and cost, they came back.
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.
