Solent Section Winter Programme of Events

 

Solent Section Winter Programme 2009-10

 

Location of Meetings

 

There are six meetings planned for the coming winter and all will be held at the Royal Air Force Yacht Club, Hamble (RAFYC), where the Section has been holding its meetings almost continuously since the Section was founded in 1976.

The current Section Secretaries are Tim and Liz Dodwell and they will be organising the Winter Programme for the Section members. We are grateful to the RAFYC for making the Section welcome again for another winter; and in return the RAFYC members are invited to our talks and to the February symposium. The Club has an excellent bar and is very friendly. To find your way to the RAF Yacht Club, please follow the link, Directions.

There is a system of booking forms for pre-payment for each of the suppers and meetings as we need to know in advance who is coming to any particular meeting. The forms will be available here and are also sent to members by email.

Guests Invited

 

Members are encouraged to bring a guest(s) to the meetings and it is hoped that the guest(s) will be moved to join the CA at some point. The Section Secretaries usually bring CA Member Application Forms to the meetings so potential new members can take away some written information about the CA.

 

DAY AND TIME OF MEETINGS

 

Thursday Talks

 

This winter there are three Thursday meetings, the traditional night over many years for the Section, and these are planned to start with ‘bar' from 18.00 hrs, an informal supper usually at 19.00 hrs, and a talk with presentation by a guest speaker or speakers on a nautical subject of close interest to the members at about 20.15 hrs. Members unable to arrive in time for the supper are welcome to join the meeting for the talk.

 

Saturday Symposium

 

In February 2010 an extended meeting is planned to take place on a Saturday afternoon from about 14.30-15.00 hrs running into the evening and ending with supper at 19.00 hrs. These symposia type meetings usually have a defined theme of a relevant nautical nature appropriate to cruising people and have three speakers. With members' posing their questions it makes the Symposium very inter-active and fun too.

 

Friday and Saturday Dinner Meetings

 

The December and April meetings are usually gatherings for a dinner after which some fun and entertainment is often introduced by a willing member such as a nautical quiz, frequently illustrated by slides. The bar is open from 18.30 hrs and the dinner is usually at 19.30 or 20.00 hrs.

These meetings provide an excellent opportunity for members to interact and discuss their boats, their boating experiences and their plans. Conversation is never dull where yachting and cruising are concerned, and many members and their spouses make life-long friendships out of the section's meetings and summer ‘Meets'.

More full details of this winter's meetings will be posted in due course. We hope you will  come to as many of the meetings as you can, and we will look forward to that.  

 

THE MEETINGS

 

Thursday 12th November 2009

Supper and Talk / Presentation

 

Friday 4th December 2009

Christmas Social Event

 

Thursday 21st January 2010

Supper and Talk / Presentation

 

Saturday 20th February 2010

Afternoon Symposium followed by supper

 

Thursday 18th March 2010

Supper and Talk / Presentation

 

Saturday 24th April 2010

Fitting Out Supper

 

Please note: This introduction to the Winter Programme can be downloaded as a pdf for saving or printing as desired.

 

 

RMP 10/08/09

  If you have any requests, ideas, queries or wish to offer your help  organising meetings or speakers, please let us know and you can do so by going to 'contact us'. Directions to the RAF Yacht Club (pdf map to see, download or print)  The winters' programmes can be seen by clicking on the file below

 

Booking Forms  here.