South West

Wednesday March 14^{th 2012}, Royal Western Yacht Club; Jeremy Batch; The Story of Navigation:  2000 BC to 2020 AD. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated salmon do it – and all with a precision that we have only just begun to match.

Saturday February 4th 2012, 11.00 – 15.30; SPECIAL EVENT; Joint meeting; South West and Lyme Bay Sections; Totnes Boating Association, Totnes.

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.

Andrew Eccleston; a lecturer in Nautical Studies at Plymouth University, where he
teaches meteorology and navigation, Andrew has been consultant on meteorology
to ocean races and watch leader on the recent circumnavigation of Gypsy Moth
1V, he will give an illustrated talk of his time on three legs of the second
circumnavigation of Gypsy Moth 1V.

David Keogh; HMS Edinburgh; Raising Stalins Gold.

Nicci Pugh; A British Hospital Ship at War. Nicci, a veteran Naval Nursing Sister 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.

South West and Lyme Bay Sections; Wednesday 13 April 2011– RYA Cruising Manager Stuart Carruthers and his colleague Gus Lewis (Legal Adviser) to talk on matters currently affecting cruising yachtsmen, particularly those things with which the RYA is concerned in lobbying government on our behalf.

Royal Cornwall YC, Wednesday  April 13^th 2011; Jill Trew, Pink Granite and Hanseatic Splender, Jill and Frank with Den Njord have spent four seasons in the western Baltic, most recently they cruised the beautiful Boshaslan coast of Sweden, then visited the Danish island of Bornholm, followed by the Baltic coast of Germany with its Hanseatic towns and inland seas and islands.

Royal Western YC, Wednesday March 16^th 2011; We hope that Allan Jewell will come and regale us with his tales of a life on the Tamar, Allan lives on the river, works on the river and has done all his life, he has already entertained Lyme Bay Section members so we hope to confirm him as our speaker in the February newsletter.

The Cruising Association’s South West Section is hosting this seminar for sailors in the south west who are dreaming, planning or enjoying offshore cruising. We hope that a mix of inshore and offshore, motor cruising and rags and sticks sailors will find the day informative and interesting for extending their current cruising comfort zones.