Essex

The summer is yet young, so we're planning another relaxed weekend with a rally at Burnham on Crouch.

There will be a pontoon get together on Saturday afternoon. Please bring drinks, glasses and nibbles to share if you can.

Saturday evening we have dinner at the Swallowtail, the marina restaurant meeting 1900 for 1930. Non-sailors welcome.

For people who are not leaving early on Sunday, breakfast is available in the Swallowtail from 10am and we have an invitation to visit the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.

Dates: 23 - 24 September 2023

The plan for this Essex Section rally is for a relaxed weekend gathering. There will be a pontoon get together on Saturday afternoon. Please bring drinks, glasses and nibbles to share if you can.

Saturday evening we have dinner at the Colne Yacht Club, meeting 1830 for 1900. Please complete the menu choices form and pay in advance before 5 July here. £24 per head for two courses.

Andy will delight us with tales and pictures of the beautiful Scandinavian coasts. His elegant online log of his adventures in the Baltic on his Starlight 39 Charmary won the 2018 Lacy trophy. We have also reserved a little time at the end for a short piece on the Wolverstone Project, one of his many other passions.

In an update to the advertised programme, Alison Cable will start the post-supper talk with a session on the Antrim coast between Ardglass and Ballycastle with fascinating pictures and a focus on getting the tides right, the importance of local knowledge and what it feels like to have a whirlpool start to form around you.

After that Phil Barnes & Caroline Milmo will give us an introduction to how their separate crewing schemes work and, I'm sure, persuade us all to use them, from one or another side of the exchange.

Michael will give us an insight into what its really like sailing in high latitudes, away from that pesky Mediterranean heat!  A retired marine engineer, he spent 16 years at sea followed by many years in Japanese shipyards building container ships and finally a stint in charge of a Japanese refrigeration company. Since 2006 he has sailed over 40,000 miles single handed visiting Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland in his Moody 42 Centre Cockpit ketch, Pangey.

Noel Dilly has been cruising for over 70 years. He now sails Whisper, a Rustler 36, with his wife Sandie. He will give us some salutary experiences of heavy weather sailing and some good advice!

Venue: Blackwater Sailing Club (map)

Date: Saturday 18^th January 2020

David Rivett tells us of his voyaging around the Kattegat. He and his wife Brenda sail Primetime, their 1994 Contest 40/42S built in Holland, displacing 12 tonnes+ and drawing 2M. CA members for 30 years they are now semi-retired and free to stretch their cruising legs. In 2018 their online log of their circuit from Augustenborg to Gothenburg and back via the Bohuslan won the CA Dolphin Cup.

Ian Jewry & Simon Daws will entertain and inspire us with how EAST provides sailing opportunities for people with disabilities and explain some of the fascinating technological aids they use.

Frances & Ed Maggs won last years' Hanson trophy for their log of their very slow circumnavigation of the British Isles in their gaff ketch Betty Alan. The last three summers have seen them in the SW and W of Ireland, and they will be showing pictures and bragging about their good fortune.