Kent

The Medway Queen was launched in 1924 and entered service on Thames estuary routes in May of that year. She was used as a minesweeper in WWII. Few ships associated with Dunkirk have fought so hard and escaped destruction so tenaciously and for so long as the Medway Queen. After the war she returned to her old route until 1963. From 1966 until 1974 she was a nightclub in the Isle of Wight. The hull rebuild was undertaken in Bristol with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the European Regional Development Fund and completed in late 2013.

The Tower Bridge and Trinity House day proved very popular, so a repeat event is now planned.  THIS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.

This involves a tour of Tower 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 a pub lunch in the Minories.

"There is nothing... absolutely nothing, half-so-much worth doing as simply messing about in boats." Appropriately, those words were first published in 1908, the year that the Cruising Association was founded.

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!