| |
|
|
SPRING
2007
Wednesdays
8pm - Bar open 7.30 pm
Memorial Centre Gerrards Cross
| Jan
10th |
The
Baltic via the Waddenzee and Wattfahrwassers.
Club members Reg & Chris Hadwen
tell of sailing their Southerly 110 through the drying channels
of the Frisian and Friesian Islands on their way to the Baltic.
|
| Jan
17th |
Jester
Challenge - Transatlantic Race. Club
member John Apps will share his coastal and ocean sailing
experiences including weather prediction methods and his challenges
in Glayva, a UFO27, during the 2006 single-handed race from
which 80% of the boats retired due to bad weather.
|
| Jan
24th |
Roscoff to La Rochelle.
Club
members Phil & Jill Snowden sailed to La Rochelle in 2004
intending to return in 2005. They are still there and will
show us some of the delights of Western France.
|
Jan 31st |
Jane Slade: Inspiration for Daphne du Maurier’s first
novel. Helen Doe, maritime historian,
author and lecturer, tells the truth behind the fiction
about three generations of seafarers and shipbuilders who
were dominated by one remarkable woman and her ship.
|
| Feb
7th |
The Cruising Association Victory Rally around Britain.
Douglas Addison talks about his part
solo sail round Britain in his 31 ft. ketch in the Cruising
Association 2005 Victory Rally, in the 200th anniversary year
of Trafalgar.
|
| Feb
14th |
Sailing with Gipsy Moth IV on the East Coast of Australia.
Jeremy
Graham will tell of his experiences as a watch leader for
a few weeks on Gipsy Moth IV in summer 2006 with a crew
of disadvantaged children.
|
Sat
Feb 17th
|
***
SATURDAY SPECIAL ***
RYA
First Aid Certificate Course
Details
available from the treasurer
|
Feb
21st |
A
Cruise to the Magical Fjords of Norway
Club member Peter Poole sails from Birdham via Lowestoft,
returning via Orkney, West Scotland and Ireland - all in
six weeks and only two gales.
|
| Feb
28th |
Mutiny,
Murder & Mayhem: the 1797 Spithead Mutiny
Dr Ann Coats, expert on eighteenth century naval history tells
of the Mutiny borne out of a grievance that naval seamen had
not had a pay rise for 144 years.
|
| Mar
7th |
In
the Wake of Ernest Shackleton
After the loss of the Endeavour, Shackleton
set off from Elephant Island to seek help in a converted
whaler, James Caird. Trevor Potts built a replica of the
James Caird and sailed it from Elephant Island to South
Georgia. He tells the story of the preparations and the
voyage.
|
| Mar
14th |
AGM - followed by a talk by Club
member Ken Moss
An East coast cruise from the Deben to Orkney and back - sometimes
single-handed.
|
Sat
Mar
31st |
Annual
Dinner - Datchet Water Sailing Club.
Roger Taylor, South Pacific tall ships shipwreck survivor,
is the after dinner speaker. Booking
details to follow
|
|
|
Rallies will be arranged
during the summer
Autumn 2007 Programme
starts Wednesday 3rd October
|
|
