Kent

Winter Warmer Talk - Managing Navigational Safety on the tidal Thames

Date: 
Thu, 11/11/2021 - 19:00

A presentation by David Allsop, Assistant Harbour Master, Port of London Authority.

 

Winter Warmer Talk - The role of the NATO Shipping Centre in keeping merchant shipping safe

Date: 
Thu, 14/10/2021 - 19:00

CA Kent Section Winter Warmer Talk, Thursday 14th October at 19.00. This will be a Zoom webinar open to all.

 

Lt Cdr Rod Drake RN will talk about the role of the NATO Shipping Centre in keeping merchant shipping safe. 

 

Meeting ID: 910 0109 8954

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Kent Section Summer Social

Date: 
Sat, 14/08/2021 - 12:30

 

Date: Saturday 14th August 2021

Time: 12.30 to 16.30

Venue: Medway Yacht Club

An informal buffet lunch open to members and their guests only. This is a lovely venue with spectacular views across the River Medway in Upnor Reach.

There will be a welcome drink followed by a finger buffet and tea/coffee included in the cost of £22.00. A pay bar will also be available.

Thanet and Kentish Flats Wind Farms

Date: 
Thu, 11/03/2021 - 19:00

A team from Vattenfall Wind Power Limited will talk about the Thanet and Kentish Flats Wind Farms, how the wind farms are operated and maintained and the role of the marine co-ordinator. The talk will also explore green hydrogen, the fuel of the future, and its co-location with wind farms.

Islands of the Medway Estuary and Smugglers of the North Kent Coast

Date: 
Thu, 11/02/2021 - 19:00

Deadman’s Island: Kent’s terrifying forgotten island littered with human remains. Tom Court Island and the German U-Boat. William Turner’s painting at Stangate Creek. And then we have the Reculver smugglers battling with the excise officers; the once inhabited islands and the fortress islands.

This is the River Medway that nobody knows and yet we enjoy sailing up and down this fascinating river.

Date: Thursday 11 February 2021

Cantilena of London sails Chesapeake Bay and the ‘Down East Loop'

Date: 
Thu, 14/01/2021 - 19:00

We all have a dream and CA members Des and Terry Crampton departed Ramsgate in May 2018 and shipped their Najad 380 Cantilena of London from Southampton to Baltimore MD, USA.

Cancelled: The Operations at the Port of Dover

Date: 
Thu, 09/04/2020 - 19:00

Following the revised advice issued by the Government on 16 March this event has been cancelled.

Port of Dover is is one of the world's busiest passenger ports, with over 11.7 million passengers, 2.6 million lorries, 2.2 million cars and motorcycles and 80,000 coaches passing through it each year and the challenge of BREXIT. The port is being regenerated with new cargo terminals to the West and a new marina due for completion in the Spring of 2020.

All Ship-shape and Blackwall-fashion, Jeremy Batch

Date: 
Thu, 12/03/2020 - 19:00

Next time you sail past the O2 "Dome" or fly over it on the cable-car, look to the opposite bank and you will see the site of the largest private dock in Europe, the birthplaces of the hydraulic crane and the modern lighthouse, the yards where "bad buoys were made good" and HMS Warrior was launched, and the wharf where Brunel’s first steamship had her engine installed.

UK Border Force

Date: 
Thu, 13/02/2020 - 19:00

With small inflatable boats making their way across the English Channel we will get an insight as to how the UK Border Force deal with this problem and how we can help them.

Date: Thursday 13 February 2020

Time: 1900, talks start 2000

Venue for our Winter Warmers:

The Shetland Bus, Stephen Howarth

Date: 
Thu, 09/01/2020 - 19:00

Operations were conducted from Lunna House, Shetland by Stephen’s father, Lieutenant Howarth, who ran the Shetland end of the operation. The crews of the Shetland Bus [Shetlandsgjengen] were men of the coast, fishermen and sailors with detailed local knowledge. Most came over after the occupation, some with their own vessels, others with vessels that were "stolen" with the owner's approval. They were young men, most of them in their twenties, some even younger.