MSBA Chairman goes AZAB
MSBA Chairman, Stuart Bradley and a friend, will be competing in the 2015 AZAB (AZores And Back) race in Stuart’s Rival 38 “Coryphaena” starting from Falmouth on 6 June. You can follow the track of individual boats...
Boat owner’s car submerged at Sheerness
Despite the best efforts of Kent Police, a Land Rover Freelander ended up submerged by the tide when a boat owner could not drive it back up the beach after launching his boat. Read more...
Peel Ports on the case…
Two updates today to Peel Ports Notices to Mariners: No 16: The missing topmark on the new Uplees north cardinal buoy, marking the trawler wreck at Harty, has been replaced. No 19: The large...
Red Sand Fort to become hotel
Retired businessman David Marriot Cooper has outlined his vision for how the fort could be converted into a unique hotel and spa, and provide a new heritage museum. Red Sand Sea Fort to be...
New Deben entrance chartlet at ECP
With East Coast boaters starting to go off cruising, Dick Holness of East Coast Pilot has advised us that there is a new chartlet of the Deben entrance now available to download from the...
Miss Isle stops over at Queenborough
Queenborough harbour Trust was honoured to have Natasha Lambert sail ‘Miss Isle’ into the harbour on Wednesday evening. Natasha, who has cerebral Palsy, is achieving her dreams through sailing, steering the yacht by mouth using ‘Sip...
Hoo Peninsula chosen for transnational GIFT-T project
For the past three years our partner the Medway Swale Estuary Partnership has worked alongside Medway Council on GIFT-T, a transnational project, to bring together local communities and businesses, through the development of bottom-up...
RYA responds to renewed Red Diesel concerns
The advice on the RYA’s website concerning going to Belgium with red diesel in your tank does not seem to have changed. However the latest Yachting Monthly states that the Belgian government has announced...
Small earthquake in Kent, not many dead
A quake registering 4.2 on the Richter scale was felt in an area from Kent to Essex last night at about 3 am. Police reported many calls from Thanet, though Ramsgate remains unharmed. According...
Rochester Pier open again
UPDATE 22 May: Hayley Taylor from Medway Council advises that the token machine has just been replaced at Rochester Pier, so it is open again. However there are still electrical supply problems at Sun...
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