Suffolk

This meeting gives you a chance to meet local sailors, whose objectives range from crossing oceans to cruising local waters, and is open to any skippers looking for crew or any sailors looking for crewing opportunities. The meeting is structured to allow introductions and for potential plans to be made.

Date: Saturday 14 March 2020

Time: 10:30

Venue: Royal Harwich Yacht Club

An exciting opportunity to go wildlife watching on a cruise on the scenic River Stour aboard the sailing barge Victor. There will be an wildlife expert aboard to help you enjoy the thousands of birds and other wildlife on the estuary.

Unlimited hot drinks will be on offer and food will be available, although a packed lunch is recommended.

Date: Wednesday 19 February 2020

Join us for what is sure to be an enlightening talk by Faye Connor-Lunn, Port Captain for MSC, about the arrival and monitoring of vessel operations in the Port of Felixstowe; with a few container ship anecdotes thrown in.

Date: Thursday 6 February 2020

Time: 1100: tea, coffee & biscuits, 1130: talk, 1300: lunch

Venue: Royal Harwich Yacht Club

Di Murrell's ‘Barges and Bread’ is a history of those who worked on the water; who used the Thames to transport goods; here woven into an account of how London relied upon the river to deliver the grain to feed its citizens. Written from a unique point of view; Di’s account of her time working on the water brings to an end a story whose beginnings can be tracked across 2000 years.

It was a battle that set a river on fire, caused panic across London and left England nursing the wounds of one of its worst ever military defeats. Yet not many people today have heard of the Battle of the Medway.

Join historian Dr David Davies for this talk on a fascinating piece of our history.

Date: Saturday 30 November 2019

Time: Talk starts promptly at 20:00. Bar opens 18:00, Supper 18:45.

Mark Harling will discuss the issues and experiences regarding rubbish, what we need to know in the current environmental crisis quelling some of the more popular myths  and exposing as many of the real facts as possible.

Date: Thursday 21 November 2019

Time: Talk starts promptly at 11:30. Coffee & cake 11:00, lunch 13:00.

Venue: Royal Harwich Yacht Club

Bookings: Royal Harwich Yacht Club

A full day's outing to Lowestoft including a visit to both the Lowesoft Maritime Museum and the International Boatbuilding Training College (IBTC) followed by lunch at the Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club.

Get tips on the best sail shape & materials from John Parker, founder of the international company now known as OneSails, who provide sails to yachts all over the world. His experience and expertise will be of great benefit if you would like to improve the performance of your cruising sails.

Date: Thursday 24 October 2019

Time: Talk starts promptly at 11:30. Coffee & cake 11:00, lunch 13:00.

Were the young sailors on this journey spies or just holidaymakers in German waters? Julia Jones will explain, using the recently discovered diaries & photos of her father, George Jones, the skipper on this cruise.

The cruise was, on the surface, by four young men, together with a more experienced skipper, who travelled 1300 miles in three weeks: a formidable cruise even in Naromis, a 37’ motor sailer with powerful engines.

Sailors who don’t keep their boats in the ports of the English Channel, for example those on the East Coast of England, may never even have considered the Channel as offering rich cruising grounds; rather they just see it as a piece of water that requires crossing to get from A to B.