CA London Burns Night Friday 30 January 7pm for 7.30pm
This year we are once again revisiting a much loved tradition and holding a Burns Night dinner and celebration at CA House, complete with recitations and song.
A double transit of the North West Passage, by Rev Bob Shepton
Bob, an ex-Royal Marine and retired school chaplain, is an extraordinary sailor who has circumnavigated several times, sailing over 130,000 miles in every latitude from the Arctic to the Antarctic, and a climber who has scaled previously unclimbed arctic mountains to boot.
A leisurely sail to the Western Med, by Jo Fraser and Liz Wall
During 2012 Liz and Jo took six months off work to sail their Westerly Oceanlord, Nimrod, from Portsmouth to the Mediterranean via North and South Brittany, the Atlantic coast and the Straits of Gibraltar and then on to Sardinia and Corsica via the Balearics. For much of the time, they sailed short-handed – two women sailing seemed to flummox a lot of marina staff along the way!
Cruising the east coast is, to say the least, interesting. For the first timer it can appear daunting with its shallow waters, numerous sand banks, strong tides and highly changeable weather. Garth Cooper is one of the three east coast sailors who compile and write the East Coast Pilot, the bible for those seeking peace and quiet among the many swatchways, estuaries, rivers and creeks that make this, in his opinion, a second-to-none sailing ground.
