Medway Council / Planning / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 17 December, 2017 · Last modified 18 December, 2017
Please add your response to the Chatham Interface Land proposal using this questionnaire. Please share it on social media too. PLEASE NOTE: For your views to count, you must send your response, ideally using the questionnaire, to Medway...
Motor cruising / Navigation / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 14 December, 2017 · Last modified 15 December, 2017
Dick Holness, co-author of East Coast Pilot, has prepared a super Christmas quiz for followers of the East Coast Forum on YBW.COM. Knowledge of East Coast waters is definitely an advantage, as is reference...
Cruising Association / Safety / Talk or lecture / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 6 December, 2017 · Last modified 14 December, 2017
Jeremy Littlewood has been in HM Coastguard for 7 years as a Watch Manager at Thames and London Operations Rooms and now 2 years as Senior Coastal Operations Officer in East Anglia managing Coastguard...
Conference / Cruiser racing / Dinghy cruising / Dinghy racing / Keelboat racing / Motor cruising / RYA / Talk or lecture / Training / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 1 December, 2017 · Last modified 2 December, 2017
The RYA London and South East Region is putting on a conference that will appeal to many Medway/Swale boaters. It will be held at Newline Academy near Maidstone on 24 Feb 2018. This is...
The crew of the Inshore Lifeboat (ILB) were called by the UK Coastguard at 8.33am on Friday 13 October reporting that a yacht had run aground on Hoo Island in the River Medway with...
The nameless blue yacht was evicted from Sun Pier and then moored unsuccessfully on the Historic Dockyard slipway, as shown in this photo taken on Sunday. The vessel, which has been the subject of more than...
Poorly marked lobster pots and fishing gear are the most difficult and unpredictable hazard facing coastal cruising people. Fishermen, too, report the loss of expensive gear as a result of entanglements. These encounters could...
History/archaeology / People / Sailing barges / Yacht cruising
by MSBA Webmaster · Published 31 August, 2017
Nick Ardley is an eccentric, an anachronism from a simpler age, for the way he sails his clinker sloop around the Thames estuary. In Rochester to Richmond: A Thames Estuary Sailor’s View. The book is a reflective journey...
Now that the warships and tall ships have gone, a fleet of nearly a hundred Dutch yachts were led up the Medway past Upnor Castle this afternoon by the SS George Stephenson blowing her steam...
Stay for two nights and receive 50% off your second night’s stay. Offer is valid until 30 June (terms and conditions apply). To book phone 01304 241663 or email marina@doverport.co.uk quoting code DOVMAR2NIGHTS. Check with...
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