Motorboat
Welcome to the Motorboat Section
The CA’s Motorboat Section aims to bring together motorboaters wherever they are and whatever type of motorboating they enjoy. We aim to provide a vibrant platform to share information, updates and resources tailored specifically for motorboating enthusiasts.
The CA has always supported both sail and motor cruisers, but the creation of a dedicated Motorboat Section enables us to better serve our expanding community of motorboaters. We also recognise that many sailors transition to motorboating, and the CA is committed to supporting this shift with enhanced services and tailored resources.
We will host Zoom talks and forums, along with organising trips in company for new and experienced motorboaters, for confidence building, expand horizons and also to enjoy the social side of motorboating.
What’s available
All of the information and forums available to members on the CA website, is also be available to Motorboat Section members.
This includes information such as advice from the Regulatory & Technical Service group (RATS), information on visas and entry into France, online forums and classified adverts. You can also use CAptain’s Mate, the CA’s invaluable cruising asset featuring information on over 7,500 locations in more than 100 countries around the world. If you are looking for an additional crew member, you can use the CA Crewing Service.
Motorboat Section members can also join other CA Sections, to broaden your community and experiences. We always recommend you join your Local Section.
Specific offerings for motorboat enthusiasts will include cruises in company, Zoom talks and forums.
Cruising in Company
Cruising in Company gives boat owners the experience of a long passage such as crossing the Channel or going to the Netherlands whilst enjoying the security and safety of completing the passage with experienced skippers. On arrival, you can also meet other motorboat owners and learn from them.
We will organise boats based on cruising speed, ensuring a comfortable experience for all. Boats with a cruising speed of less than 19 kts will be in one group and faster boats in another.
Organisers will handle berthing and provide entry requirements advice, making the process stress free. This initiative is perfect for both seasoned and new motorboaters looking to connect and learn from each other. For everyone, our cruising in company will give the chance to meet old friends and make new ones.
Zoom talks
Details of talks will be updated when confirmed and will appear in the Forthcoming Events below.
Forums
The CA’s online forums, including the Motorboat forum, are a great way for members to share information. All posts and replies are made using real names, not pseudonyms, and are visible only to members. Ask a question and answers from fellow members with first-hand experience will flood in.
Forthcoming Events
The Yacht Broker: How it Works, Hugh Rayner
Date: 05/12/2024
If you have a boat, then the likelihood is that you bought it, and you may even have used a Broker... But what does a Broker actually do, (and should you use one for...
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Trim and Stabilisation systems, Lennart Dobele
Date: 16/01/2025
Details of this talk on trim and stabilisation systems will be updated soon. This event is open to all CA members as well as non-members...
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Motorcruising the Dutch Frisian Islands, Machiel Lambooij and Remko Sinck
Date: 09/04/2025
Visitors from abroad to the Netherlands often seem to miss the Dutch Frisian Islands (Waddeneilanden) on their travels through the country. For motorboaters, it really is...
Read moreInterested in Finding out More?
Please contact the Section Secretaries by email motorboats@theca.org.uk or
CA staff at office@theca.org.uk or +44 (0) 207 537 2828.
Cruising Sections
Baltic
Covers the Baltic Sea, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Faroes. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring.
Biscay
Covers Western France, Spain and Portugal as well as crossing Biscay. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring.
Blue Water
For those sailing outside of European waters. Holds a popular Blue Water seminar in the summer.
Celtic
Covers waters from Land’s End to Cape Wrath. Meets at various west coast venues to share knowledge on all aspects of cruising the region.
Channel
For those cruising the south coast of the UK, Channel Islands, and France from the Belgian border to NW Brittany. Holds an annual seminar and summer rally/cruise-in-company.
European Inland Waterways
Covers over 30,000 km of navigable rivers and canals passing through over 20 countries. Annual seminar and lunch each autumn at CA House.
Mediterranean
Covers the Mediterranean from Spain and Morocco in the west to the Levant in the east, and includes the Black Sea. Meets at CA House in the winter, and afloat in the summer.
Motorboat
The Motorboat Section aims to bring together motorboaters where ever they are and whatever type of motorboating they enjoy.
North Sea
Covers the UK, Belgian and Dutch coasts. Meets at East Coast venues to share knowledge on all aspects of cruising the region.
Local / UK Sections
Antipodean
For members who live in Australia and New Zealand and who sail in the Northern Hemisphere.
CA London
CA London events are held at our Limehouse HQ.
Essex
Meetings held at Blackwater Sailing Club and mid-week lunches arranged.
Kent
Kent Section's 'Winter Warmers', talks by a variety of speakers, will be held via Zoom for the forseeable future.
Solent
Summer rallies with weekend meets. Winter talks with ‘club’ suppers usually at a Hamble yacht club or marina.
South West
For members living in or cruising the areas from Portland Bill to the Isles of Scilly and along the north coast of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset to Bristol.
Suffolk
Joint meetings are arranged with the Royal Harwich Yacht Club at Woolverstone.
Thames Valley
Winter talks are held in partnership with the Gerrards Cross Sailing Association (GXSA) at Colston Hall at The Memorial Centre in Gerrards Cross.
Wessex
Talks are held at Lilliput Sailing Club, Poole.
