Come along to CA House to enjoy the conviviality of the CA London Club Supper, a chance to meet CA friends and share a meal and a drink or two.
Just book your place and turn up in time to order you meal, ideally before 7pm. CA London Section Secretaries John and Alison Hadley very much look forward to seeing you there.
The menu isn't announced in advance but there's always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
Come along to CA House to enjoy the conviviality of the CA London Club Supper, a chance to meet CA friends and share a meal and a drink or two.
Just book your place and turn up in time to order you meal, ideally before 7pm. CA London Section Secretaries John and Alison Hadley very much look forward to seeing you there.
The menu isn't announced in advance but there's always a range of dishes, including vegetarian.
Our speaker, Adam, is a keen canoeist with 15 years’ experience of paddling a fourteen foot, Canadian (open) canoe around the Medway estuary and its islands in addition to paddling adventures in Finland, Sweden and Canada.
It is too often assumed that British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars resulted from impressive strategic insight and imaginative tactical excellence. However, a very substantial contribution to these successes can be attributed to compassionate leadership, and an astute understanding of the needs of sailors and their health. It has been said that victory at Trafalgar owed as much to the citrus fruits as to Nelson's strategic brilliance.
This talk describes the adventures of Missy Bear, a new Oceanis 40.1, as she sails from Canet-en-Rousillon in France to Preveza in Greece. Missy Bear remains steadfast as her crew deal with route planning, weather, laundry and an uncharted rock. Did they also mention Brexit rules and Covid regulations? Richard and Alix won the Lacey Trophy for their delightful blog of this trip.
RATS, the Regulations and Technical Services Group, represents the CA in understanding and explaining how regulatory and technical issues affect cruising sailors, and in dealings with government and other authorities, offshore developers and the marine industry. In this session they will cover some of the hot topics in their current workload.
During the 1930s the Germans built up a large fleet of cruiser racer yachts to sail under the German Square Metre Rule. They were principally used for nautical training of German armed forces officers. At the end of World War II a large number of these German Government owned yachts were allocated to the victors with many finding their way into various, mainly British services, yacht clubs. They became known as the ‘Windfalls’ or ‘Booty Boats’.
Robinetta is a gaff cutter designed by Denys Rayner and launched in 1937. Last year, she made it from Tollesbury to Southwold on a shake-down cruise where rather more shook down than was ideal. Julian rebuilt the gaff and repaired the boom fixings spring and continued north towards their new home in Scotland. Leaving the Humber proved challenging.
Over several centuries a surprising diversity of goods were traded between East Anglia, northern France and the Low Countries. Good quality English wool was exported, woven in Flanders and SW Netherlands, and some cloth smuggled back, all duty free. In the golden age of import smuggling the most important commodity was over-proof gin called strong “Jenever”, or brandy; other items smuggled were most of the heavily-taxed products including wine, tobacco, spices, silks and tea.
After decades of sailing around Greek waters, Christopher’s retirement dream was to sail through the Bosphorus and round the Black Sea to Georgia. Planning quickly showed Russian and Russian-occupied Georgian waters were no-go zones but at that time, 2012, the Ukraine and especially the Crimea proved to be excellent sailing.
