Category: Yacht cruising

CA Kent Section Winter Warmer, 12 March 2015

Cruising AssociationNext Winter Warmer at the Dog and Bear, Lenham, will be on Thursday, 12th March 2015, 8pm. Members will be giving short presentations:

  • Storms, engine failure and some tricky manoeuvres !  – David Long
  • The River Seine through the canals and home via Dieppe and Boulogne – Ken Marsden
  • Best laid plans, don’t always work out ! – Alan Dann
  • Sailing a junk rigged Virgo Voyager single handed ! – Tom Wallace
  • The Sandwich Rally August 2014 – Clifford Mickleburgh

Clifford says bring a friend, non-members are also always very welcome.

Kentish Stour chartlet

Stour ChartletIf you cruise to Sandwich, as the Cruising Association recently did, you may find this chartlet by Robert Holden useful as the entrance from Pegwell Bay, near Ramsgate, can be tricky without such local information. Click here for printable version of Pegwell Bay Charlet and photos of approach marks,  scanned from paper copy.

Westerly Owners Rally to Medway, 1-3 August 2014

Westerly Owners (and there are quite a few of us) are invited to join the rally, mustering at Harty Ferry on Friday 1 August then proceeding to Medway YC for dinner on Saturday. Contact John Elliot (Water Gypsy) at johnrelliot (at) btinternet.com

More details at http://www.westerly-owners.co.uk/ev_thames_events.php

Going to Dover?

The Cruising Association Kent Section inform us that the Port of Dover is hosting a seminar this Friday 28 March at the Royal Cinque Ports Yacht Club. If you a user, visitor, berth holder or just sailing by you are very welcome to attend this seminar by the VTS team updating us on the changes that are being introduced by  VTS and Port Traffic Control/

The Port of Dover is the only port in the UK where it is mandatory to request permission to enter or leave the port

Venue: RCPYC, 4-5 Waterloo Crescent, Dover, CT16 1LA

Details of Dover Port Control seminar

“Baltic and Back” at Medway Cruising Club, 28 March

Medway Cruising Club invites us to their Strand Clubhouse for a talk on 28 March, at 7.30 pm:

“In 2013 Santy, a Victoria 34 from Chatham sailed to the German Baltic Coast through both through the Dutch and Kiel Canals as well as along the North German Coast. The illustrated presentation will cover where they went and who they met over 16 weeks of cruising. The Baltic is becoming an increasingly significant cruising ground for British Yachts and this is your opportunity to find out why.”

There will also be a talk on Ultrasonic Works electronic antifouling.

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 advance.

Download: [Sailing Instructions] [Entry Form]  [Notice of Race]

Meet James Wharram at Queenborough on 19 April 2013

Queenborough Harbour Trust is proud to say James Wharram will be coming to Queenborough on Friday 19/04/13 and will be giving a talk about the Lapita Voyage. This voyage demonstrates that the Polynesians were capable of ocean travel using traditional designs.

For a little information regarding  James Wharram and the voyage please visit the web addresses below.
http://www.lapita-voyage.org/en/lapita_voyage.html
http://wharram.com/site/

James is stopping off at Queenborough on his way to London to pick up an award from the Ocean Cruising Club and offered to present this talk as he is a Patron of Queenborough Harbour Trust. If you are interested in building a boat, sailing a catamaran or sailing across oceans you will find James highly skilled and able to answer questions.
The talk will be held from 19.30 at Queenborough Yacht Club
                                                                     7 High Street
                                                                     Queenborough
                                                                     Kent. ME11 5AA
Admission is £7.00 which is to cover the cost of the buffet. Could interested people please contact Eddie Johnson by e-mailing edcjohnson@aol.com or calling 07749375449.

Cruising Association Winter Talks

Cruising Association Kent Section

Clifford Mickleburgh writes “It’s crisp, fresh, a gentle breeze and blue skies as I motor gently down the River Medway and think that this is what boating is all about…”

The Kent section of the Cruising Association holds winter evening talks on the 2nd Thursday of each month at the Early Bird PH, Grove Green, Maidstone, just off Junction 7 of the M20 Tel 01622 734237 [SAT NAV ME14 5TQ]. Non-members are welcome.

The meetings begin at 19:00 hours for those that would like to eat with the talks beginning at 20:10 hours. The charge is £3.00 a head. It helps to know the numbers attending, but don’t let that stop you coming and please “bring a friend”, just a simple email to Ian will suffice. If you forget, don’t let that stop you turning up…….

Ian Galletti (the other Joint Secretary) can be contacted on 01959 562075 or 07721 411598 or email iangalletti @ btinternet.com

Our next talk is on Thursday 13 December 2012 – John Barry on the “How and Why of Tides”.

The First Aid course on Saturday 23 February 2013 is now full but the CA are intending arranging another First Aid course at the Early Bird on Saturday 2 March 2013.