Category: Talk or lecture

Cruising Association / Motor cruising / Talk or lecture / Yacht cruising

1 March, 2018

CA Winter Warmer Talk, 110 Years of Cruising by Jeremy Batch, 8 March

There is nothing… absolutely nothing, half-so-much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Appropriately, those words were first published in 1908, the year that the Cruising Association was founded based on a different...

Classic vessels / Sailing barges / Talk or lecture

25 February, 2018

An Afternoon of Thames Sailing Barge Films, Sun 18 March

Motor cruising / Talk or lecture / Yacht cruising

7 February, 2018

Is your bottom clean? Medway CC, now Thurs 8 March

Want to know why there are so many options of antifoul on the shelves? Interested in how they work? And why they’re different? How about the future for antifouling? Join us at Medway Cruising...

Motor cruising / Talk or lecture / Yacht cruising

3 February, 2018

CA Winter Warmer Talks, 8 Feb 2018

Caroline Milmo will give a short presentation on the CA Crewing Service and tell us about her trip from Lymington to Svalbard in the Norwegian archipelago. This will give you a flavor of how...

Motor cruising / Sailing barges / Talk or lecture

9 January, 2018

IWA Talk: Sailing Barges in their Heyday, Thu 25 Jan

Inland Waterways Association talk on Thursday, 25 January 2018, 7.30 for 8.00 pm at Strood Yacht Club, Knight Road, Strood, ME2 2AH Michael Farnham will be giving an illustrated talk on the history of sailing...

Cruising Association / Motor cruising / Talk or lecture

26 December, 2017

CA Winter Warmer talk, 11 Jan 2018

Our next Winter Warmer is on Thursday, 11 January 2018, “Engineering Our Way Across Europe” by Patricia & Neil Lynn aboard Sea Griffin. In 2010, we decided to bring Sea Griffin from the Baltic...

Cruising Association / Safety / Talk or lecture / Yacht cruising

6 December, 2017

CA Winter Warmer talk, HM Coastguard, Thurs 14 Dec

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

1 December, 2017

RYA Regional Cruising Conference, 24 Feb 2018

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...

Conference / RYA / Talk or lecture / Training

21 October, 2017

RYA Affiliated Club Conference, 2 Dec

RYA affiliated clubs can send up to four people for free to this excellent all-day conference which will be held near Maidstone. Lunch and refreshments are provided. This year we will be unveiling the...

Cruising Association / History/archaeology / Medway Council / Talk or lecture

4 October, 2017

CA Winter Warmer talks start on Thurs 12 Oct

Carl Madjitey will give a talk on the 1667 Raid on the Medway. The 350th anniversary was commemorated by Medway Council this year. In June 1667 the Dutch, under the command of Admiral Michiel...