Essex Section

A warm welcome awaits you at the Essex Section of the Cruising Association

All Members of the Cruising Association are very welcome in the Essex Section. We hope to provide you with a calendar of social, educational, and sailing activities throughout the year. The Section was started over twelve years ago and we have had excellent support with winter meetings. Our aim is to improve facilities for CA Members based on the East Coast and we look forward to meeting many of you during the next year both on and off the water. We use the central CA database for mailings so if you want to be on our mailing list or check that you're still on it please 'phone CA. House (020 7537 2828) and speak to a member of the Secretariat, or simply e-mail the Section Secretary, Judith Grimwade, essex@cruising.org.uk and she will be delighted to add your name to the members of the Section who receive their newsletter electronically.There is no charge for joining a section; members may join as many sections as they wish.

Writtle Agricultural College

Our meetings are held int the Writtle Room at Writtle Agricultural College, Writtle, Chelmsford. We begin with a finger buffet and a little time for Members to mix informally. This will normally be followed by the illustrated talk and discussion with a break for refreshments at a convenient point. We hope to conclude the evening before l0.30pm. There's plenty of parking space, and we hope to see all our regulars and quite a few first-timers for what promises to be a very interesting evening. We welcome any of your paying guests and we hope, after they've sampled our hospitality, that they may decide to join the C.A., so please bring them along.

We need to give numbers attending to the caterers ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE and it would be appreciated if you would return the reply slip to Peter Barnard as soon as possible, together with your remittance for the evening of £9.50 per person for members and £11.00 non-members. Cheques should be made payable to: 'Cruising Association Essex Section'. If you are a first-timer, please note that we do not issue tickets. For those who do not wish to eat, the cost is £3.00 for members and £3.50 for non-members.

The Committee would welcome approaches from any member who would like to become involved in the very worthwhile activity of organising events for the benefit of others. The Committee meets as necessary, using email at other times and we do enjoy Committee Dinners from time to time as an additional reward for our endeavours. We would be particularly pleased to hear from anyone who would like to organise a rally during the sailing season. Enhance your social life and contact one of us without delay

Forthcoming Events

Winter Programme 2010 

SATURDAY March 13th 7.00pm  "Near and Far" Members' Own Presentations

This is intended as an annual event in which members of the section give much shorter presentations than usual, describing and illustrating their own sailing experiences, both in local waters and further afield, “near and far”, in fact! Contributors this year are:

Faith Tippet               Mersea Week

Vic Stephens             The Restoration of a Boat and its Demise in the Red Sea

Roy Hart                   The Scilly Isles and Back in a Small Boat”

Judith Grimwade        South from the Gironde

April

John Burnett Piracy

This talk will now take place in our 2010-2011 programme.

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