Groups Near You

Wherever you live and cruise, check below to find a CA group near you. These are our ‘Sections’. Cruising Sections cover sea areas while local Sections are based around the UK. There’s also an Antipodean Section for members Down Under.

Members usually join at least two Sections, one near home and another where they cruise. However you can join as many, or as few, as you like. Joining a Section is free and lets you become involved in those events and discussions most relevant to you.

Cruising Sections have email nets; dedicated forums for members to exchange information. As a member you can access any forum at any time – whether you’re a Section member or not. You can choose to set up automatic forwarding of posts from any forum while a ‘cruising mode’ helps you control receipt of emails when airtime might be expensive or bandwidths constricted.

Cruising Sections

Baltic

Covers the Baltic Sea, Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Faroes. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring.

Biscay

Covers Western France, Spain and Portugal as well as crossing Biscay. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring.

Blue Water

For those sailing outside of European waters. Holds a popular Blue Water seminar in the summer.

Celtic

Covers waters from Land’s End to Cape Wrath. Meets at various west coast venues to share knowledge on all aspects of cruising the region.

Channel

Covers Northern France from the Belgian border to Normandy and the South Coast of England. Holds a popular introductory seminar every spring, and organises summer rallies.

European Inland Waterways

Covers over 30,000 km of navigable rivers and canals passing through over 20 countries. Meets spring and autumn at CA House.

Mediterranean

Covers the Mediterranean from Spain and Morocco in the west to the Levant in the east, and includes the Black Sea. Meets at CA House in the winter, and afloat in the summer.

North Sea

Covers the UK, Belgian and Dutch coasts. Meets at East Coast venues to share knowledge on all aspects of cruising the region.

Local / UK Sections

Antipodean

For members who live in Australia and New Zealand and who sail in the Northern Hemisphere.

CA London

CA London events are held at our Limehouse HQ.

East Midlands

Talks are held in various venues in the East Midlands.

Essex

Meetings held at Blackwater Sailing Club and mid-week lunches arranged.

Kent

Winter talks are held in Maidstone, and joint rallies are organised with Essex and Suffolk sections.

Solent

Summer rallies with weekend meets. Winter talks with ‘club’ suppers usually at a Hamble yacht club or marina.

South West

For members living in or cruising the areas from Portland Bill to the Isles of Scilly and along the north coast of Cornwall, Devon and Somerset to Bristol.

Suffolk

Joint meetings are arranged with the Royal Harwich Yacht Club at Woolverstone.

Thames Valley

Winter talks are held at the Upper Thames Sailing Club in Bourne End near Marlow.

Wessex

Talks are held at Parkstone Yacht Club, Poole.

West Midlands

Year round events held at Severn Motor Yacht Club, also winter meetings held at Ashwood Social Club Kingswinford.

Forthcoming Section Events

Non-members are welcome to attend

Blue Water Section - August Sunday Talk and Lunch
Date: 19/08/2018

Sunday Talk & Lunch - August 19th at CA House, Limehouse, London. A 10:30 start with coffee, tea & biscuits and talk, An Atlantic Circuit...

CA London Supper Night
Date: 05/09/2018

Our monthly summer club suppers start again in May again this year. The dates for your diary are: 9 May 6 June 4 July 8 August 5 September Our suppers are quite informal. Timing is...

Going North to Svalbard.
Date: 09/10/2018

Tuesday 9 October 2018 Upper Thames Sailing Club, Riverside, Bourne End, Bucks SL8 5PT Going North to Svalbard with Des Crampton Hear how the Ramsgate-based yacht 'Cantilena of London'...

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