Essex

In an update to the advertised programme, Alison Cable will start the post-supper talk with a session on the Antrim coast between Ardglass and Ballycastle with fascinating pictures and a focus on getting the tides right, the importance of local knowledge and what it feels like to have a whirlpool start to form around you.

After that Phil Barnes & Caroline Milmo will give us an introduction to how their separate crewing schemes work and, I'm sure, persuade us all to use them, from one or another side of the exchange.

Michael will give us an insight into what its really like sailing in high latitudes, away from that pesky Mediterranean heat!  A retired marine engineer, he spent 16 years at sea followed by many years in Japanese shipyards building container ships and finally a stint in charge of a Japanese refrigeration company. Since 2006 he has sailed over 40,000 miles single handed visiting Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland in his Moody 42 Centre Cockpit ketch, Pangey.

Noel Dilly has been cruising for over 70 years. He now sails Whisper, a Rustler 36, with his wife Sandie. He will give us some salutary experiences of heavy weather sailing and some good advice!

Venue: Blackwater Sailing Club (map)

Date: Saturday 18^th January 2020

David Rivett tells us of his voyaging around the Kattegat. He and his wife Brenda sail Primetime, their 1994 Contest 40/42S built in Holland, displacing 12 tonnes+ and drawing 2M. CA members for 30 years they are now semi-retired and free to stretch their cruising legs. In 2018 their online log of their circuit from Augustenborg to Gothenburg and back via the Bohuslan won the CA Dolphin Cup.

Ian Jewry & Simon Daws will entertain and inspire us with how EAST provides sailing opportunities for people with disabilities and explain some of the fascinating technological aids they use.

Frances & Ed Maggs won last years' Hanson trophy for their log of their very slow circumnavigation of the British Isles in their gaff ketch Betty Alan. The last three summers have seen them in the SW and W of Ireland, and they will be showing pictures and bragging about their good fortune.

Essex Section Supper & Talk: The New East Coast Pilot

Venue: Blackwater Sailing Club (map)

Date: Saturday 13^th April 2019

Time: 19:00 (supper), talk begins 20:00, you can expect to get away by 22:00

Essex Section Supper & Talk:  Stress Free Sailing

Venue: Blackwater Sailing Club (map)

Date: Saturday 9th March 2019

Time: 19:00 (supper), talk begins 20:00, you can expect to get away by 22:00

Essex Section Supper & Talk:  TS Royalist and the Sea Cadets

Venue: Blackwater Sailing Club (map)

Date: Saturday 9^th February 2019

Time: 19:00 (supper), talk begins 20:30, you can expect to get away by 22:00

Meet for lunch and a chat, close to water with atmosphere and conviviality in mind. 

The essence is informality. We like to give the publican an idea of numbers but in the past we have usually had around 20.

Venue: The Crown, 51 High St, Manningtree CO11 1AH

Date: Wednesday 10^th April 2019

Time: 12:30 for a 1pm lunch