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After a highly successful Southampton Boat Show, we'll soon be moving onwards and upwards to Scotland's Boat Show taking place at Kip Marina from Friday October 12^th - Sunday 14^th.

High expectations were met with record numbers at TheYachtMarket.com Southampton Boat Show 2018

With perfect timing for the Yachtmarket.com Southampton Boat Show, the CA has entered into a new merchandise partnership with the global sailing clothing brand Gill.

CA members can, from 1 September, place orders from an initial selection of technical and leisure items at a discounted rate from the 2019 Gill range and more products will be added to the CA's Online Shop in good time for pre-Christmas delivery.

Celebrating flying the CA burgee for 110 years!

 

Throughout the The YachtMarket.com Southampton Boat Show we’re giving away one fabulous prize EVERY DAY! Members & new joining members are invited to visit our stand in Ocean Hall/J419 and enter the Free Prize Draw. There are over £1,500 worth of prizes to be won throughout the Show. Do join us and fly the CA burgee!

See the details of the daily prizes below.  Each day's winner will be announced at the Show at 16:00.

Daily Prizes will be:

And the winners are...!

We were delighted to receive over 60 Facebook Focus images fitting our entry criteria over the course of 12 weeks. These were gradually whittled down as we took to Facebook to announce a 'Shot of the Week’ or, in some cases where we have been spoiled for choice, to two or more 'Shots of the Week’. All shortlisted images were then allocated to an online album for the judging panel to select their favourite image in each of the four categories.

The Cruising Association’s RATS (Regulations and Technical Services) Committee has been in discussion with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) about the use of calls to HMCG on Channel 16 requesting radio checks. RATS have anecdotal evidence of a proliferation of such requests and that these seemed to have spread from the Solent to other areas and Falmouth in particular.

The General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland are conducting a survey to gauge current and future user requirements for their Differential GPS service.

Differential GPS user survey

The General Lighthouse Authorities of the UK and Ireland—Trinity House, the Northern Lighthouse Board and the Commissioners of Irish Lights—operate 14 Differential GPS reference stations which provide corrections to GPS, thereby enabling greater positional accuracy and integrity in the user’s position.

In celebration of the 50^th Anniversary of the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race 2018 and the CA’s involvement with and support for its Patron Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, we are giving away two copies of Peter Nichols’ sailing classic A Voyage for Madmen, a book, published by Profile Books, detailing the extraordinary story behind the inaugural Golden Globe round-the-world sailing race of 1968, a Race which was won by Sir Robin, the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world and arrive back in Falmouth 10 months later on 22^nd April 1969.