Talk or lecture – Page 3 – Medway and Swale Boating Association

CA Winter Warmer talk, Thu 13 Jan 2022, 7pm

Mandy Bruce from Magellan Yacht Surveys will be talking on the role of the Yacht Surveyor.

Mandy is professionally trained through the International Boatbuilding Training Centre at Lowestoft, with a background of racing and cruising yachts in the Solent, on the North Kent Coast and in the Mediterranean. She is an accredited member of the Yacht Designers and Surveyors Association (YDSA) and a full member of the MSA (Marine Surveyor Associates). This is a group of professionally trained surveyors communicating via a live forum, sharing knowledge and experience on a daily basis. She is a sailor as well as a surveyor and currently owns a Westerly Fulmar which she races around the Swale and has been Racing Commodore at Conyer Cruising Club for the last five years and helps with the Swale Regatta.

These talks start at 7pm and it’s wise to log in a few minutes earlier. Click on this link to join the webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-8M2x9pySeGLw97mqxfrTw

RYA Club Development Workshops, Jan 2022

Following the recent regional Affiliated Club Conferences, in January the RYA will be running a series of online club development workshops to cover the topics that conference delegates said are most important. These free workshops are a repeat of the workshops presented at the conferences so are ideal if you were a delegate and now want to revisit the content, as well as for those who were unable to make their live regional event. Each workshop will leave you with the latest information and ideas to create or update your plans and find out what support is available from the RYA.

10th January – 8-9 pm – How can you plan to retain more members?
17th January – 8-9 pm – How can you plan to recruit and retain more volunteers?
24th January – 8-9 pm – How can you plan to develop or replace your facility?
31st January – 8-9 pm – What are the governance and legal challenges that your club is facing?

If you register for the workshop you will be able to view a recording if you cannot make the live session. These are open to representatives from RYA Affiliated Clubs so do share the details with others involved with running your club.

CA Winter Warmer talk: Maunsell Forts, Thu 9 Dec, 7pm

The Kent section of the Cruising Association invites you to join their “winter warmer” talk on Thursday evening at 7pm. This one should be very interesting indeed. You may need a stiff drink.

Title: May the Forts be with you – the story of the Maunsell Sea Forts

By: Flo McEwan (pictured), Founder of the Maunsell Sea Forts Appreciation Group.

CA Winter Warmer talk, PLA Safety, Thu 11 Nov

The Cruising Association Kent Section invites you to a Zoom webinar at 7pm on Thursday 11 November, 2021 – Managing Navigational Safety on the tidal Thames by David Allsop, Assistant Harbour Master, Port of London Authority. The Port of London, comprising the tidal Thames from Teddington to the Outer Limits, is the UK’s busiest port for commercial shipping. Managing the safety of navigation for vessels of all types and sizes is a constant challenge. This presentation will explore the approach taken and challenges faced.

It will start at 19.00 prompt and will last about one hour. Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/97536721623

Sue and David Long
Cruising Association Kent Section Secretaries
Email: kent@theca.org.uk

CA Winter Warmer talk, NATO, Thu 14 Oct

You are invited to a Zoom webinar on Thursday 14 October at 19.00

Lt Cdr Rod Drake RNR RD will talk about the role of the NATO Shipping Centre in keeping merchant shipping safe.

It will start at 19.00 prompt and will last about one hour. Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91001098954

Sue and David Long
Cruising Association Kent Section Secretaries
Email: kent@theca.org.uk

RNLI Innovations talk by Colin Brown, Strood YC, 14 Oct

The Kent & East Sussex Branch of the Inland Waterways Association
invite you to an open meeting on The RNLI.

Colin Brown is returning to give us the follow up to his excellent previous talk two years ago.

Thursday, 14 October 2021, 7.30 p.m. for 8.00 p.m.
at Strood Yacht Club, Knight Road, Strood, ME2 2AH.

All are welcome to attend whether IWA members or not, and we look forward to seeing you there.

In the event of any change in the Covid regulations necessitating the cancellation of the meeting, please check the IWAKES page on the IWA website before attending the meeting.

From Boats to Baby Bumps， 21 April

Find out how rowing the Atlantic with your mother has led to inspiring mothers-to-be to stay active! Join Sally Kettle as she shares the ups and downs of rowing the Atlantic Ocean twice from East to West, once with her mother! Sally tells of rough seas, wild storms, harsh living and encounters with marine wildlife, including sharks. Find out how six months at sea in a boat the size of the average bathroom affects the body and, perhaps more importantly, the mind. Sally has raised £500,000 for charitable causes. She is an Ambassador for Girlguiding, and Trustee at the London Sports Trust. She has also served on humanitarian aid missions. During lockdown in 2020 Sally set up The Active Pregnancy Foundation with aims to support women to stay active throughout pregnancy and beyond, by providing expertise & advice, changing culture & challenging policy. She has delivered hundreds of talks around the world, to corporates, community groups and schools. Her ideas have been developed into workshop and training options, commentary, and thought leadership. Recently her ideas found a global audience via the missions of listeners to Radio 4. Sally’s FourThought talk, “Does Hope Help?” expounded her hard won personal philosophy of action overcoming procrastination. She continues to write and present pieces for Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’.

Bromsgrove Boaters is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: Sally Kettle – Transatlantic Rower
Time: Apr 21, 2021 07:30 PM London Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/4105524520?pwd=OEoxQXNKTW0xS1ZYU3h1Z20xd2dPUT09
Meeting ID: 410 552 4520
Passcode: 251974

CA talk: Thanet and Kentish Flats Wind Farms, Thu 11 March, 7pm

The Cruising Association Kent Section’s popular “winter warmer” talks, organised by Clifford Mickleburgh, have not stopped for Covid. All of us, CA member or not, can enjoy them online.

A team from Vattenfall Wind Power Limited will talk about the Thanet and Kentish Flats Wind Farms, how the wind farms are operated and maintained, and the role of the marine co-ordinator. The talk will also explore green hydrogen, the fuel of the future, and its co-location with wind farms.

Melanie Rogers is the Local Vattenfall Liaison Officer for the Kent region. Throughout the year, she leads the local outreach and engagement programme. She is also a regular speaker to local groups and organisations to give them the opportunity to learn more about renewable energy and their local projects.

Powering UK homes Since the first Kent wind farm – Kentish Flats – was built a decade ago, offshore wind has become an affordable, reliable and vital part of the UK energy system. By 2030, 30GW of offshore wind is expected to be installed in the UK. Vattenfall could power more than 4 million UK homes.