Sat, 05/05/2012 - 14:00 to Mon, 07/05/2012 - 17:00
Spring Rally - 5th, 6th & 7th May 2012
Join us for the CA Spring
Rally at Limehouse, London over the weekend of the early May bank holiday. We
can accommodate up to 12 visiting boats in the marina and there are still some
cabins available.
Programme:
Saturday 5th: Arrive
Limehouse marina (high tide is around 2pm). Afternoon visit to Docklands
Museum. Pontoon party 5.30pm, followed by BBQ at CA House.
Don't miss our much
anticipated final talk of the season, the Hanson Lecture by Sir Alan
Massey, this Wednesday 28th March. There are still some spaces left,
so don’t miss the opportunity to hear this excellent speaker.
Jan Mayen Island, part of
the Kingdom of Norway,
is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean about 400 miles north east of Iceland.
Partially covered in glaciers, it is home to the mighty Beerenberg, the world’s
most northerly active volcano. In July 2011, Alasdair Flint and a crew of three
set sail from Scotland
in Sumara of Weymouth, a 26ft Vertue, to reach Jan Mayen and climb the
7,470ft mountain. This talk describes the trip, the climb, a thwarted attempt
In
2008, Ed and Sue gave up professional careers, sold their home and possessions
in Iowa and set off to explore the world in Angel Louise, their UK built
Catalac 12 metre catamaran, taking in the US Intra-Coastal Waterway, the 1,300
mile long US Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida, and the Eastern Caribbean
from the Bahamas through the West Indies, to Venezuela and the Dutch A-B-C
Islands. Their most recent North Atlantic crossing has brought them to England and London. Their joint presentation reveals what
David will take us on a cruise down the English Channel
from the Suffolk rivers to Cornwall,
with some diversions in the Solent on the way.
In recognition of these straitened times he will offer hints on how to enjoy a
leisurely cruise along this delightful coast and then linger in the South West
rivers and harbours without doing too much damage to the bank balance. The talk
will be illustrated by some excellent photographs, not all on a nautical
subject.
Individual lecture tickets: Members £4.00;
Non-members £7.00
Starting out as novices Henry and Kikki sailed
the 'coconut milk run' through the Caribbean, Pacific, Australasia, SE Asia and
in 2011 made it through 'pirate alley' and the Red Sea to Turkey. Sailing
is the means, visiting interesting places is the end. Initially this talk will
describe places and their people off the normal cruising route, some accessible
only by boat, including: Palmerston Atoll, Tasmania, Vanuatu,
North Borneo and the Andaman Islands. After
the break the focus will be on recent experience with the Vasco de Gama rally
23rd October 2009 is a day that the Chandlers and their family
will never forget. While sailing in the
idyllic Seychelles
archipelago, their yacht Lynn Rival was attacked and seized by Somali
pirates. Six hellish days later they
were forced to abandon ship near the Somali coast and were taken inland for a
further 382 days of captivity. During
this time the gangsters sought to extort money from their family, friends and
anyone else who took an interest.
In 2009, Kath set off from
Lancashire with her husband Barrie on Yarona, their Hallberg Rassy 43,
with a vague plan of spending a few summers in the Med. Yarona was
hauled out for the winter in Italy in the Fiumara Grande, and this year they
have spent three months exploring Corsica and the Italian Islands of Elba,
Sardinia, and Sicily. Kath will try to convince us this can be done without
destroying the cruising budget, and that coming across the occasional Italian
male with an attitude problem is a small price to pay in order to enjoy the
Nicola and her family sailed
away for eight years, exploring the Caribbean, Bahamas,
US Eastern Seaboard and the Mediterranean. Her
book, Sail Away, offers practical guidance for the would be adventurer, including
choosing a boat, planning a round-the-world route, information on safety,
communications, children, insurance, and budgeting and extensive information on
routes and destinations around Europe, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and beyond -
as well as a realistic look at the pros and cons of living onboard. Whether
They travelled around the
world, through the Northwest and Northeast Passages, to the Poles, to the
bottom of the ocean, through the sound barrier, to the edge of the atmosphere
and to the surface of the Moon. They built their craft from papyrus, balsa,
cedar, oak, iron, titanium, canvas, carbon fibre and aluminium foil.
Their teeth fell out, their joints came apart, their blood boiled, their
eardrums burst and their eyeballs came out of their sockets. They made voyages
that were thought to be too far, too fast, too dangerous or too expensive – or
