Kent

Have you a confession or an incident that you want to share?

Members relate and share their experiences, their confessions, their ups and downs, what went wrong and what went right!!!

Date: 8^th February 2018

Time: 1900, talks start 2000

Venue for our Winter Warmers:

The Dog & Bear Hotel
The Square
Lenham
​ME17 2PG
01622 858219

In 2010, we decided to bring Sea Griffin from the Baltic to the Mediterranean using the inland route. It is of course a tourist delight; you only have to watch the Viking Cruise advertisements on TV. But how do you do it? What did the old and new engineers have to do, in order for us to make this trip? This will attempt to show off some of the engineering we saw, and used, along the way, the canals, locks, bridges, forts, factories and tunnels. And of course, there is the history that went with it.

Jeremy Littlewood has been in HM Coastguard for 7 years as a Watch Manager at Thames and London Operations Rooms and now 2 years as Senior Coastal Operations Officer in East Anglia managing Coastguard Rescue Teams and Major Incident Response. Jeremy will give an overview of the activities and capabilities of HM Coastguard afloat and ashore and give a presentation and discussion about safety equipment that can be carried by yachtsman.

Date: 14^th December 2017

Matt Craughwell on the story of his adventures rowing the Atlantic Ocean aboard Sara G, an Australian built 36' Ocean Rowing boat. He will tell how, from an initial idea to he broke the world record inside two years, including the failed attempts, the success and how he was finally shipwrecked mid-Atlantic.

A tour of the bridge and its workings with our own guide. Travelling the walkways with the new glass floor and the Edwardian Engine Room. This will be followed by lunch in the Minories.

The Raid on the River Medway 19^th - 24^th June 1667 is to be remembered by Medway Council as Medway on Fire by Carl Madjitey.

Clifford Mickleburgh on DAWN OWL with Charlie on a whistle stop tour of Europe

Clifford Mickleburgh on DAWN OWL with Charlie on a whistle stop tour of Europe from the Netherlands north to Copenhagen and then south through the Kiel Canal, Frisian Islands and the European rivers and canals to Switzerland and back down the Rhine through Germany to Friesland in the Netherlands. Find out about the boat lifts and the inclined planes!

Nigel Rigby on Captain James Cook RN

Britain’s greatest mariner explorer, navigator, cartographer. Nigel works for the National Maritime Museum, which holds world-class collections of Cook-related material. The Museum has staged Cook exhibitions and galleries since it first opened in 1937, and it is currently developing a new gallery which is due to open in 2018, on the anniversary of Cook’s departure from Deptford. Nigel’s talk will look at how the Museum’s displays of Cook have changed over the years and how they are planning to use him in the new gallery.

Chatham Historical Dockyard with Scott Belcher the Curator

A fascinating talk with a “then and now approach” – a kind of guided tour around the site with a general historical overview, specific details of the buildings and vessels included and what they do now, both for visitors and in the wider sense. The ships Gannet, Ocelot and the Cavalier, the lifeboats, the steam locomotives and much, much more.

Date: 9^th February 2017

Time: 19:00, talks start 20:00