As 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. 
You will be passing the departure point of fleets (great and small) which set-up the first permanent English speaking colony in the New World, established the most powerful multinational corporation that has ever existed, and towed the floating harbours that made the D-Day landings possible. Here the Cutty Sark unloaded tea and wool, and here many of her sisters were built. Blackwall has featured in each of Jeremy's talks over the past seven years, so the time has come for a closer look. For example, what is the connection between the local Majestic Wine Warehouse and Captain James Cook's first ship?
Date and Time: Saturday 14th October 2023, Doors open at 18:00, Dinner at 18:45, Talk at 20:00.
Venue: Royal Harwich Yacht Club, Woolverstone, Ipswich, IP9 1AT; Lat and Long: N52⁰ 0.34’ E001⁰ 11.8’; National Grid Reference: TM 1952 3896; What.Three.Words: ///lion.jumpy.chuckling.
Free car parking at the Club.
Download directions to the Club here.
What: Winter Talk, with or without a meal.
Open to: Members of the CA, CS, RHYC, and their guests.
Book now on the RHYC website: https://www.royalharwichyachtclub.co.uk/events/rhyc-ca-jeremy-batch