Saturday 18th March 2017, Evening Meeting at RHYC, Woolverstone
Stress Free Sailing, Duncan Wells
Bar open at 1800, meal 1845, talk 2000, finish approx. 2200
By definition couples sailing alone have to do everything for themselves. They leave the berth, set the sails, helm the boat, trim the sails, navigate, anchor, pick up mooring buoys, enter harbour, moor up and all without the help of any extra crew. So they need to carry out these manoeuvres efficiently and effectively, with as little physical effort as possible.
Saturday 21st January 2017, Evening Meeting at RHYC, Woolverstone
Near and Far plus Photo Competition
Bar open at 1800, meal 1845, talk 2000, finish approx. 2200
Our usual mix of members stories plus the ever popular Photo Competition. As well as your shots of sailing (and power, not forgetting racing scenes) and the places you have visited we will be looking for an image suitable for the cover of the 2018 edition of The Cruising Almanac.
Thursday 10th November, Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Woolverstone
We resume our popular Thursday morning series with a welcome visit to warmer climes.
Keith Pettican will give us an illustrated talk on the passage from the Aegean to the Ionian through the Corinth Canal, visiting such places as Delphi and Olympia.
Visit the Royal Observatory to see the Harrison Chronometers and much else of interest and the newly renovated Cutty Sark. The price of £45 per head includes coach from Woolverstone with a pick up point at Colchester ‘Park and Ride’ just off the A12, entry to the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark and the National Maritime Museum, a ‘Quick Lunch’ in the Maritime Museum Brasserie of soup, sandwich and tea and coffee, and all gratuities.
Clothing a Skillinger Crew in 1880, Jane Robinson
We resume our popular Thursday morning series with a welcome visit to warmer climes.