Kent

Overview of UK boat sales and listings by Peter Norris, MD of Clarke and Carter Interyacht (Kent) Ltd

Date: 
Thu, 08/11/2018 - 19:00

Peter will provide an overview of what’s happening to UK boat sales and listings over the last 12 months and to provide an insight to what is envisaged might happen when the UK leaves the EU in 2019. Peter will also try and dispel the myth that the life of a yacht broker is a glamorous and easy life.

Peter will give an insight into some of the issues a yacht broker faces when listing a boat for sale, what owners can do to make the listing of their yacht and thus sale easier. Peter will include some examples what can and does go wrong during a pre-purchase survey and sea trial

The Medway Queen by Pam and Mark Bathurst of the Medway Queen Preservation Society

Date: 
Thu, 11/10/2018 - 19:00

The Medway Queen was launched in 1924 and entered service on Thames estuary routes in May of that year. She was used as a minesweeper in WWII. Few ships associated with Dunkirk have fought so hard and escaped destruction so tenaciously and for so long as the Medway Queen. After the war she returned to her old route until 1963. From 1966 until 1974 she was a nightclub in the Isle of Wight. The hull rebuild was undertaken in Bristol with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund and completed in late 2013.

Another visit to Tower Bridge and Trinity House

Date: 
Mon, 14/05/2018 - 10:45

The Tower Bridge and Trinity House day proved very popular, so a repeat event is now planned.  THIS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.

This involves a tour of Tower Bridge and its workings with our own guide. Travelling the walkways with the new glass floor and the Edwardian Engine Room. This will be followed by a pub lunch in the Minories.

110 years of cruising by Jeremy Batch

Date: 
Thu, 08/03/2018 - 19:00

"There is nothing... absolutely nothing, half-so-much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Appropriately, those words were first published in 1908, the year that the Cruising Association was founded.

Sharing Experiences (aka Members' Confessions)

Date: 
Thu, 08/02/2018 - 19:00

Have you a confession or an incident that you want to share?

Members relate and share their experiences, their confessions, their ups and downs, what went wrong and what went right!!!

Date: 8th February 2018

Time: 1900, talks start 2000

Venue for our Winter Warmers:

The Dog & Bear Hotel
The Square
Lenham
​ME17 2PG
01622 858219

Engineering Our Way Across Europe by Patricia & Neil Lynn

Date: 
Thu, 11/01/2018 - 19:00

In 2010, we decided to bring Sea Griffin from the Baltic to the Mediterranean using the inland route. It is of course a tourist delight; you only have to watch the Viking Cruise advertisements on TV. But how do you do it? What did the old and new engineers have to do, in order for us to make this trip? This will attempt to show off some of the engineering we saw, and used, along the way, the canals, locks, bridges, forts, factories and tunnels. And of course, there is the history that went with it.

HM Coastguard and Yacht Safety by Jeremy Littlewood

Date: 
Thu, 14/12/2017 - 19:00

Jeremy Littlewood has been in HM Coastguard for 7 years as a Watch Manager at Thames and London Operations Rooms and now 2 years as Senior Coastal Operations Officer in East Anglia managing Coastguard Rescue Teams and Major Incident Response. Jeremy will give an overview of the activities and capabilities of HM Coastguard afloat and ashore and give a presentation and discussion about safety equipment that can be carried by yachtsman.

Date: 14th December 2017

Rowing the Atlantic by Matt Craughwell

Date: 
Thu, 09/11/2017 - 19:00

Matt Craughwell on the story of his adventures rowing the Atlantic Ocean aboard Sara G, an Australian built 36' Ocean Rowing boat. He will tell how, from an initial idea to he broke the world record inside two years, including the failed attempts, the success and how he was finally shipwrecked mid-Atlantic.

A visit to Tower Bridge and Trinity House

Date: 
Mon, 06/11/2017 - 10:45

A tour of the bridge and its workings with our own guide. Travelling the walkways with the new glass floor and the Edwardian Engine Room. This will be followed by lunch in the Minories.

The Raid on the River Medway 19th – 24th June 1667

Date: 
Thu, 12/10/2017 - 19:00

The Raid on the River Medway 19th - 24th June 1667 is to be remembered by Medway Council as Medway on Fire by Carl Madjitey.