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The Moody Story
date:
Thu, 09/02/2012 - 19:00 - 22:30
place:
Maidstone, please see below for details David Moody is one of the 6th generation of Moodys to have run the family business and has worked for the company for over 40 years, until the date of its sale in December 2005. His niche area was new boat development, sales and marketing.
His talk supports the book 'The Moody Legacy', which covers the complete story of the company's development over some 175 years. The book and the talk contain many period photographs including yachts built by the company or bearing their name.
The story covers the family, the boats built (including the WW2 years), the area surrounding the boat yard and David’s childhood growing up alongside the river with memories including having famous "J" class yachts such as Valsheda and Endeavour laid up in mud berths just outside his father's house on Swanwick Shore in the early to mid 1950s.
Talks take place at the Early Bird PH, Grove Green, Maidstone, just off Junction 7 of the M20
Tel 01622 734237 [SAT NAV ME14 5TQ].
Please see the Kent Winter Events page for further details.
Surveying Classic Boats-BCYA Meeting
date:
Thu, 09/02/2012 - 19:30 - 22:00
place:
Thornbury Sailing Club CA Members invited to this function addressed by CA Member, Kathleen Kilbey
Solent Section February Meeting ‘A Year and One Month Off’
date:
Fri, 10/02/2012 - 18:30 - 22:00
place:
Royal Air Force Yacht Club Hamble ‘A Year and One Month Off’
Derrick and Ali Thorrington will tell us of their adventures in Green Flash during their sailing down to the Mediterranean the outside way and back through the Canal du Midi.
A booking form to attend this event is available to members via a link from this page, please click here.
"Back From the Dead!" A talk by The Pioneer Sailing Trust
date:
Sat, 11/02/2012 - 18:45 - 22:00
place:
Blackwater Sailing Club, Basin Road, Heybridge Basin, CM9 4SD A brief outline of the talk will be provided in the Essex Section January 2012 Newsletter.
La Dolce Vita: Cruising the Islands of the Central Mediterranean, by Kath Stott
date:
Wed, 15/02/2012 - 19:00 - 21:30 In 2009, Kath set off from Lancashire with her husband Barrie on Yarona, their Hallberg Rassy 43, with a vague plan of spending a few summers in the Med. Yarona was hauled out for the winter in Italy in the Fiumara Grande, and this year they have spent three months exploring Corsica and the Italian Islands of Elba, Sardinia, and Sicily. Kath will try to convince us this can be done without destroying the cruising budget, and that coming across the occasional Italian male with an attitude problem is a small price to pay in order to enjoy the many delights of Italian food and scenery, not to mention the excellent sailing.
Individual lecture tickets: Members £4.00; Non-members £7.00
Season tickets available - contact Secretariat for details
Lectures and talks start promptly at 19:00hrs
Baltic Seminar
date:
Sat, 18/02/2012 - 10:30 - 17:00 Baltic Seminar. A whole day event including presentations on Baltic sailing, country-specific desks, bring and buy sale. Buffet lunch included. Take the opportunity to find out all you need to know to sail the Baltic - a must if you are making your first journey to the Baltic or intending to explore further. Come along and meet those already sailing the area and let them share their experiences and enthusiasm with you. Prior booking with the Baltic Section Treasurer essential. Download form - see below.
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Near and Far evening, including the photo competition
date:
Sat, 18/02/2012 - 18:00 - 22:30
place:
RHYC, Woolverstone, Near Ipswich - Suffolk The ever popular Near and Far Evening
A Day in the Life of a Sailing Instructor. Mike Graham
Mike is a former RHYC Commodore and President and one of the Club’s RYA Sailing Instructors. He has promised not to ‘name names’.
Channel Challenge Jessie and Charles Nesbit
Jessie and Charles are winners of the new RHYC Cruising Log Trophy for a short cruise.
Neither ‘Near’ nor ‘Far’ David Sadler
David will describe the delights of cruising in the Solent from an East Coast Sailor’s perspective.
Memorable Anchorages and Anchoring Bill Miller
Bill has cruised both ‘Near’ and ‘Far’ over many years. He will share with us some favourite anchorages and some tips on how to stay put for a peaceful night.
The evening is always very popular and attracts a full house. This year the Photo Competition will “go digital” and take the form of a Photo Show in the hope of attracting a wider entry. More details below. We will provide display boards and tables so that you can set out charts, logs and mementoes of your own cruises. These displays are always popular with members and can spark ideas for your 2012 cruise. We will also have details of the CA Crewing Service to hand so that lack of a suitable crew need not restrict your ambition.
PHOTO COMPETITION DETAILS
Both the number of entrants and entries had fallen off in 2011 and we wondered if this was due to the decline in the popularity of hard copy prints in this digital age. So we are trying a new format this year:-
Subject “Cruising” - to give the widest possible scope of subject.
Format Slide show at the “Near and Far” evening
Prize There will be one overall prize.
Entries By email ATTACHMENT to Suffolk@cruising.org.uk quoting a caption and your name (email addresses are not always easily deciphered).
Maximum of three entries per member.
Closing date Monday 13 February 2012.
In previous years entries have been used in CA and RHYC publicity, on Boat Show stands and appeared in “Cruising” magazine, so don’t be shy. Full details and conditions of entry at the end of this Newsletter.
If you have not “gone digital”, but wish to show off your favourite snap, please bring it along on the evening, as display boards will be available at the Near and Far meeting.
The history and present day operation of the RNLI
date:
Tue, 21/02/2012 - 19:30 - 21:30
place:
Harleyford Golf Club, Marlow, SL7 2SP 
Join us on Tuesday, 21st February to hear John Allen, Operations Training Manager with the RNLI talk about the history, tradition and present day operation of the RNLI.
The RNLI has saved more than 139,000 lives since it's foundation in 1824, against a background of major technical developments and social change. In 1891, the first RNLI street collection was held in Manchester. The 20th century saw the RNLI continue to save lifes through two world wars. The lifeboats moved from sail and oar power to petrol and diesel, and the fisrt women joined their crews. Recent years have seen the indroductionof RNLI lifeguards and the first lifeboat station on an inland waterway.
Bar is available from 6.30
Entrance £3 CA members, £5 guests
Touring the Midlands by Water
date:
Tue, 21/02/2012 - 19:45 - 22:30
place:
Ashwood Social Club, Ashwood Marina, Kingswinford , DY6 0AQ Former Mediterranean sailor, Graham Winter, takes to the "Cut"
Supper then A Hospital Ship at War; Nicci Pugh
date:
Wed, 22/02/2012 - 18:30 - 21:30
place:
The Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, Greenbank, Falmouth. Nicci Pugh; A British Hospital Ship at War. Nicci, a local sailor, who has lived and worked in Cornwall all her life is an ex-RCYC member now RNSA, who learnt to sail on the Helford before her time in the Navy as a Nursing Sister. Nicci will base the talk on her book ‘White Ship – Red Crosses’, which is a fascinating, comprehensive account of the work of the medical teams and crew aboard the British Hospital Ship SS Uganda during the Falklands War in 1982, Uganda was moored in the Fal near Smugglers after the hostilities. The story gives a sense of the camaraderie between those on board and the importance for the veterans of their links to the Falklands Islands. Nicci will include maps and many unseen photos and make comparisons to current conflicts ensuring this talk will be an interesting and enjoyable one.
Supper is at 19.00 and costs approximatly £10.00, the talk starts at 20.00 and finishes soon after 21.00. Both the RCYC and the CA SW Section welcome guests so please do come along to both the supper and talk or just to the talk.
Supper must be booked or there will not be enough food! Please book by emailing south_west@cruising.org.uk or ringing 07818 002624.
