Object TO PROVIDE SAILING AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES FOR CRUISING YACHTSMEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE NOT PRIMARILY INTERESTED IN RACING
Sailing THE ESSEX AND SUFFOLK RIVERS, UK COASTAL WATERS, THE  THAMES ESTUARY and the NEAR CONTINENT - THE NARROW SEAS
27 Jan 2012 The 2012 Rally Programme has now been completed and can be found by clicking here
20 Jan 2012 Members, if you are interested in a First Aid Course contact Rona H or any Committee member who will arrange for you to go on the list. Details, date and time will be advised in due course, which is, however dependent on numbers.

20 Jan 2012 Our next General Meeting is on the 11th February and we are delighted to welcome Dominic Buckley as our guest speaker. He is a marine surveyor and will be speaking about all manner of boat-related problems and incidents. It promises to be an interesting and illuminating talk. 
Our speaker at the March 11th Meeting is Nigel Gardner. Square Riggers and sail handling will  be the theme of his presentation.

2 Jan 2012 18 Members and guests took part in our New Year's Day Cruise to Fambridge unequally distributed aboard Barbary Heron, Pax and Papa Romeo. Haggis, neeps and potatoes tatties were cooked aboard but only those on Barbary Heron  with their resident Scotsman ate it under weigh. This gave them a head start to the Ferryboat Inn at Fambridge where more celebratory liquid was consumed. Happily there was a favourable breeze to sail on up river and sadly a persistent rainstorm for the passage home. None-the-less, it was an enjoyable and memorable day. 

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29 December 2011 Those Members who were able to join the party to visit London VTS at Gravesend were treated to a thoroughly interesting and informative visit. Click here to read Donald Neale's report on what they saw.
13 December 2011        Our Christmas Party  on the 10th December passed off as a most enjoyable event with plenty of conversation, a delicious (rum - optional) punch and an appetising buffet, plus the thrill of the photo competition. Winner was Peter Burton with "Storm over Essex",(looks like a soaking was due), second was Maggie Kilbride with a cheerful group "Signing the Rally Book" and third was Roger Whitney with an atmospheric portrayal of the Gunfleet wind farm turbines titled  "Blades in the Mist" .
Storm over Essex Signing the Rally Book Blades in the mist