In 2011, Richard and Cathy Brown took their Grand Soleil 40, Brave, on a 2,500-mile journey from their home port on the River Orwell on the East Coast to explore the Rias of Galicia, and then back to Levington.
The four month-adventure included revisiting favourite haunts in northern and southern Brittany as well as crossing Biscay and exploring the Spanish coast as far south as Baiona, taking time to enjoy the wonderful scenery, culture and cuisine of the Rias.
Andy and Nicky Gibb have sailed the world in Intrepid of Dover. Now based in Turkey, they were looking for a different trans-Atlantic route and found it via Cap Verdes, entrancing Gambia and French Guiana. They explored South American rivers and rainforests, witnessing a rocket launch, playing with giant river otters, and braving terrifying rapid rides to seldom-visited open cast gold mines. Finally Tobago with world class diving, to the Chagaramas boatyards in Trinidad, below the hurricanes.
Wednesday 4
July is CA London’s next social event. Come and join us at CA House for a BBQ
celebrating our military defeat by our rebellious colony. By the end of July
the Olympics will be upon us, but for now you can still travel into and around
London relatively unimpeded. Bar open from 6pm. Food from 7pm. Tickets £10 a
head. Please let the secretariat know if you are planning to come along.
Sat, 05/05/2012 - 14:00 to Mon, 07/05/2012 - 17:00
Spring Rally - 5th, 6th & 7th May 2012
Join us for the CA Spring
Rally at Limehouse, London over the weekend of the early May bank holiday. We
can accommodate up to 12 visiting boats in the marina and there are still some
cabins available.
Programme:
Saturday 5th: Arrive
Limehouse marina (high tide is around 2pm). Afternoon visit to Docklands
Museum. Pontoon party 5.30pm, followed by BBQ at CA House.
Don't miss our much
anticipated final talk of the season, the Hanson Lecture by Sir Alan
Massey, this Wednesday 28th March. There are still some spaces left,
so don’t miss the opportunity to hear this excellent speaker.
Jan Mayen Island, part of
the Kingdom of Norway,
is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean about 400 miles north east of Iceland.
Partially covered in glaciers, it is home to the mighty Beerenberg, the world’s
most northerly active volcano. In July 2011, Alasdair Flint and a crew of three
set sail from Scotland
in Sumara of Weymouth, a 26ft Vertue, to reach Jan Mayen and climb the
7,470ft mountain. This talk describes the trip, the climb, a thwarted attempt
In
2008, Ed and Sue gave up professional careers, sold their home and possessions
in Iowa and set off to explore the world in Angel Louise, their UK built
Catalac 12 metre catamaran, taking in the US Intra-Coastal Waterway, the 1,300
mile long US Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida, and the Eastern Caribbean
from the Bahamas through the West Indies, to Venezuela and the Dutch A-B-C
Islands. Their most recent North Atlantic crossing has brought them to England and London. Their joint presentation reveals what
David will take us on a cruise down the English Channel
from the Suffolk rivers to Cornwall,
with some diversions in the Solent on the way.
In recognition of these straitened times he will offer hints on how to enjoy a
leisurely cruise along this delightful coast and then linger in the South West
rivers and harbours without doing too much damage to the bank balance. The talk
will be illustrated by some excellent photographs, not all on a nautical
subject.
Individual lecture tickets: Members £4.00;
Non-members £7.00
Starting out as novices Henry and Kikki sailed
the 'coconut milk run' through the Caribbean, Pacific, Australasia, SE Asia and
in 2011 made it through 'pirate alley' and the Red Sea to Turkey. Sailing
is the means, visiting interesting places is the end. Initially this talk will
describe places and their people off the normal cruising route, some accessible
only by boat, including: Palmerston Atoll, Tasmania, Vanuatu,
North Borneo and the Andaman Islands. After
the break the focus will be on recent experience with the Vasco de Gama rally
23rd October 2009 is a day that the Chandlers and their family
will never forget. While sailing in the
idyllic Seychelles
archipelago, their yacht Lynn Rival was attacked and seized by Somali
pirates. Six hellish days later they
were forced to abandon ship near the Somali coast and were taken inland for a
further 382 days of captivity. During
this time the gangsters sought to extort money from their family, friends and
anyone else who took an interest.
