Blue Water Section

Welcome to the Blue Water Section. The response from members at the launch of this section was amazing, within two weeks of the formal set up in March 2010 we had 90 members join and the numbers have swelled to 250 as at September 2011.

The aims of the Blue Water Section are to encourage contact between members and facilitate the exchange of all types of information available to those already sailing waters not covered by the existing British, Baltic, Mediterranean and European Inland Waterways sections, others who are planning  their future Blue Water sailing and experienced members who have previously sailed the oceans. At present, this spread of information is achieved by way of occasional meetings, our regular Newsletters and an email-based forum.

We arrange frequent Rendezvous for CA Blue Water members in various locations around the world, details of which can be found in the Events section. We produce a web based Newsletter which can be downloaded when convenient for perusal at leisure; a brief e-mail is sent out to advise of its availability. A list of Section Members is published below (members' only page) with their boat names, contact details, cruising areas and blogs to enable inter-member contact. 

The Blue Water Forum   is an email based enquiry system whereby the 'enquirer only' receives any direct response. The enquiry together with all replies is posted on the 'Forum' page on the CA website; in this way valuable information can be shared. You don't have to join to join in only to receive your answers by email; see "communications" below on how to do this.

Please click here to see how it all began... 

Sandy and Brian Duker, Blue Water Section secretaries (click on picture to find out more), are currently cruising along the East Coast of North America between Newfoundland and the Caribbean. Contact them on  bluewatersec@gmail.com 

 To Join this Section please use the Join Now button at the top of this page. If you don't see this button you are already a member of this section.

Please follow the links below to explore the Blue Water Section Site.

Origins and Objectives 

Members - who they are, where they are, in PDF form. This can be downloaded or printed, and you can zoom in to read it using the buttons at the top of the screen. 

Communications - using Blue Water Net and the Forums

Cruising Reports - information from all members, searchable by location.

Crewing Service - looking for crew, sailing short handed? 

All newsletters - an archive of the previous newsletters