CA House Lectures
Down the Danube, by Philip and Phyl Cook
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Wed, 24/11/2010 - 19:00Philip & Phyl Cook designed and project managed the building of their 21m motor boat, Zingara, specifically to explore the European waterways and take it to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine, Main and Danube. They started their voyage from France in the spring of ‘08 and left their boat in Romania for that winter. They had hoped to return to Western Europe via the Ukraine, Belarus and Poland but were refused entry. Not wanting to retrace their steps and despite Phyl’s increasing dislike of sea crossings, they returned via the Mediterranean in 2009.
After a lifetime of sailing including the Atlantic and Pacific, this voyage proved to be an experience that neither would have missed - but not necessarily one that they will repeat either!
Pottering round Ireland in Aloe Vera, Terry McMenamin
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Wed, 08/12/2010 - 19:00“For a devotee of the pottering school of cruising, there is a sense of accomplishment from pottering around Ireland in a very windy season, tempered with frustration at the calms between the blows.” So says Love Cup log competition winner, Terry McMenamin. Terry’s plan was to sail anti-clockwise, taking in as many places of interest as possible as “seeing and exploring new places ashore is vital to the enjoyment of a cruise”. He will touch on local history, traditional craft, wildlife, gear failures, and weather forecasts.
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
A race too far, Chris Eakin
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Wed, 17/11/2010 - 19:00
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
The Great Loop, by Steve Moss
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Wed, 10/11/2010 - 19:00The Great Loop is 5,000 miles long, taking in 16 US states plus Canada. It rises to 572 ft above sea level, has 17 ft minimum fixed bridge clearance, and runs through 69 locks of up to 50 ft maximum lift. It links the US Intracoastal, the Great Lakes, and the inland rivers of America's heartland. Some of the delights on the way include Chesapeake Bay and the historic sites of the War of Independence and Civil War; New York and the Long Island Sound; Lake Eyrie and Lake St Clare; the Georgian Bay and North Channel in Canada; the Mississipi and the Gulf of Mexico.
Steve Moss left Miami in May 2007 and returned in May 2009 an official ‘Looper’. .
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
Ice Bears and Kotick, Peter Webb
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Wed, 03/11/2010 - 19:00
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
Nelson and the Nile, 1798: incomplete intelligence, spectacular seamanship, Professor Roger Knight
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Wed, 27/10/2010 - 19:00The war against France was going badly in early 1798, when information was received in London about a huge expedition being assembled in Toulon under a young general called Napoleon Bonaparte. Nelson and his squadron of crack ships were sent to investigate, but, through British government blunders, he had little or no intelligence as to where it was heading. This is the story of how Nelson missed Bonaparte’s expedition, lost his foremast and was nearly shipwrecked, and finally found the French fleet in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria. The ensuing victory and destruction of French naval power in the Mediterranean started Britain’s recovery.
Visiting Professor of Naval History at the Greenwich Maritime Institute, University of Greenwich, Roger Knight is the author of The Pursuit of Victory: the life and achievement of Horatio Nelson. He has cruised in most of the areas in which Nelson sailed - though not in Egyptian waters
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
East coast USA: sailing between the Caribbean and Maine, John Franklin
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Wed, 20/10/2010 - 19:00He will then tell us about the three passages he has made in Al Shaheen, covering the Bahamas, Intra Coastal Waterway, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware and the New Jersey coast, New York and Long Island Sound, and Cape Cod to Maine.
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
Tunisia and Morocco, James Parnell
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Wed, 13/10/2010 - 19:00
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
World Cruising, by Jimmy Cornell
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Wed, 06/10/2010 - 19:00 - 21:00
He’ll then bring us right up to date with the current world cruising scene, illustrated with photographic highlights of a life of sailing. Jimmy’s latest book, World Cruising Destinations will be officially launched tonight, so come and join the celebration.
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
Jimmy Cornell Masterclass
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Sat, 27/03/2010 - 09:30 - 16:30place:
CA House
In the last three decades Jimmy has sailed 200,000 miles in all oceans of the world, including three circumnavigations and two voyages to Antarctica.
He has a wealth of practical advice to offer anyone contemplating a trip whether to the Mediterranean or right around the world. His seminars have sold out in the US. Jimmy has run two very successful masterclasses for CA members thinking of undertaking an offshore voyage; one in London in 2008 and one more recently in Falmouth last November. We are delighted that he has agreed to come again to CA House to run another session for those who missed out last time round.
The class, on Saturday 27 March at CA House, is in five parts, and should take around six hours with a break for lunch. Coffee available from 9.30am, prompt start at 10am.
Planning your dream voyage: planning an offshore voyage starting from Europe and sailing to the Mediterranean, to the Eastern Caribbean (and back), to Panama, and all the way around the world. Routing suggestions, weather routing, prevailing winds, tropical storm areas and seasons, climate change and its possible effects.
Main planning considerations: heavy weather, safety concerns and piracy, common breakages, dealing with emergencies, essential spares.
Practical aspects of long distance offshore cruising: formalities and documents, communications, downwind sails, cruising in stages, yacht transport.
Offshore routines: life on board, daily routine including maintenance, meals, selfsteering gears and autopilots, provisions, fuel and water, electricity consumption and generation, watch systems, fishing, diving and photography.
Main factors that can affect the outcome of a voyage: essential features on an offshore cruising boat, financial aspects, crew.
All sections are well illustrated and Jimmy is happy to take questions. Tickets will be £25 for members, £30 non members.
Please book in advance with the office on 0207 537 2828.
Saturday 13 November 2010
CA Suffolk Section
Long Distance Cruising Masterclass
If you can't make it to CA House, or the date is not suitable, note that Jimmy will be repeating his Masterclass for CA members at the RHYC, Woolverstone, Ipswich on 13 November 2010.
Contact David Sadler: david-sadler@lineone.net for details.
