2014 Events Calendar
We invite clubs and other local boating organisations to give us dates, even if tentative, for proposed events in 2014. Hopefully this will help to avoid clashes of dates. As you can see from...
Last sea-going paddle steamer visits Medway
PS Waverley, run by volunteers of the Paddle Steamer Preservation Society, seen here during her visit to the Medway on Sunday 29 September. Our own Medway Queen is now afloat and will soon be...
Queenborough Harbour news
Phil Shaw says the latest Queenborough Harbour newsletter is available at http://www.queenborough-harbour.co.u…er_aug2013.pdf
REYC invites all comers to Mary Cup race on 28 Sept
Ken Gorton of the Royal Engineer YC invites all cruiser-racers (monohulls only) to the Mary Cup race on Saturday 28 September. If you do not have an NHC handicap please contact Ken well in...
Sheppey hosts Europe’s longest dinghy race
The annual Round the Island Race, hosted by the Isle of Sheppey Sailing Club, is the longest dinghy and board race in Europe. For more details click here.
Clipper Fleet visits Queenborough
The Queenborough Harbour Trust, was very honoured to have the fleet of twelve, ‘around the world’, state of the art, brand new 70ft racing yachts, prior to their start on Monday 2 September, after...
Swale News
To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the cancellation of the Swale Regatta were greatly exaggerated. Alan Thorne, Rear Commodore of Hollowshore CC, informs us that the regatta did take place on the Friday. It...
Clarke & Carter opens brokerage at Swale Marina
Peter Norris has informed us that Clarke & Carter, long established at Gillingham Marina, has opened a new office at Swale Marina in Conyer Creek. For more information, see http://www.clarkeandcarter.co.uk/brokeragenews/announcing-our-new-swale-marina-brokerage-service
Crime Update
Outboards again seemed to be targeted from all over the county from Canterbury on the 20th to the River Rother at Newenden and of course most people will be aware that a MYC boat...
Faversham Creek: it’s not a street
At Faversham Creek sailing barges and other traditional craft are still moored and repaired, but for how much longer? Planners and developers seem ignorant of history and geography, also blind to what is lost if...
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