Suffolk

East Coast Spring Rally, Saturday 5th May - Monday 7th May

RHYC River Orwell

Suffolk, Essex, and Kent Sections invite you to celebrate the start of the Sailing Season in true Cruising Association style with an informal Rally, featuring some cruising, gentle competition, activities ashore, entertainment, eating, drinking and yarning, with friends old and new.

Cruising Meeting, Friday 23^rdof March, Royal Harwich Yacht Club Woolverstone

Every last Friday in the month (excluding Easter), RHYC will be open for Cruising people to get together to Socialise and discuss Cruising.

The Bar will be open 1900-2200, Catering from 1900-2100.

There will be a “Cruisers Supper” e.g. Chilli and Rice & a veggie alternative.

No need to book, just turn up.

Cruising Meeting, Friday 23^rdof February, Royal Harwich Yacht Club Woolverstone

Every last Friday in the month (excluding Easter), RHYC will be open for Cruising people to get together to Socialise and discuss Cruising.

The Bar will be open 1900-2200, Catering from 1900-2100.

There will be a “Cruisers Supper” e.g. Chilli and Rice & a veggie alternative.

No need to book, just turn up.

Cruising Meeting, Friday 26th of January, Royal Harwich Yacht Club Woolverstone

Every last Friday in the month (excluding Easter), RHYC will be open for Cruising people to get together to Socialise and discuss Cruising.

The Bar will be open 1900-2200, Catering from 1900-2100

The first session will be “Cruising to the South Coast”.  Jane Russell, RCC, will be present & will bring charts / books and take the lead, but we envisage people arriving from 1900 for informal chat about that cruising area.

Saturday Morning 10 February, 1000 to 1200 at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Woolverstone

After the successful Netherlands seminar we are continuing with an open meeting to discuss sailing in the Netherlands in 2018.

The topics are to be confirmed but ideas are to include: crossing in company; meeting up once or twice whilst there; sailing with children/grandchildren, sharing information; maybe being linked in with an RHYC Cruise in Company. Do come to the meeting to share ideas and help to progress the plan.

Saturday 3 March, at the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Woolverstone

After the large attendance at the successful talk on Crossing the Thames Estuary, Roger Gaspar has offered to lead a smaller workshop on planning passages to Thames ports.

£5 per head, details tba.

Saturday 24th February 2018, Evening Meeting at RHYC Woolverstone

Bar open at 1800, meal 1845, talks 2000, finish approx. 2200

Join us for a thoroghly entertaining evening from Chris Brown with tales of his cruise on LJC from the Orwell River to the Lofoten Islands, via Shetland and later, back south to Oslo.

Supper £14. Price includes attendance at the talk. There is a charge of £5 per head for members attending for talks only.

Evening visit to an Observatory with the local (to Woolverstone) Astronomical Society

Date: 8th and 15th March 2018

Join us for one of these visits to the Observatory at Orwell Park, previously the home of Col. Tomline, a past commodore of RHYC.

Starting at 2000 at a cost of £5 per person, visitors will be sent joining instructions upon booking and will need to use their own transport.

Saturday 17 March 2018, Evening Meeting at RHYC Woolverstone

Bar open at 1800, meal 1845, talk 2000, finish approx. 2200

Stuart Grimwade who is a director of the Ipswich Maritime Trust, and creator of its Image Archive, will talk on ‘A History of the Ipswich River in Photographs’.

Thursday 25th January 2018, Morning Meeting at RHYC Woolverstone

1100 for 1130 talk. Lunch available at the RHYC 1300

A biological oceanographer, Paul will talk of the early days of adventurous cruising in South Atlantic, from mid 1960s.

Talk and lunch £9-50, talk only £5-00.