Archive for August 2018
April 2018 – Penny Tranter “Sailing Weather”
Penny Tranter has had 35 years working at the Met office, and is a sailor. So she understands as we do the importance of weather to sailors, but, unlike most of us, can read and interpret the clouds, satellite pictures, weather data, weather maps and so on to explain what is going on and what…
Read MoreJune 2018 Cathy Shelbourne “William Dampier, circumnavigator extraordinaire”
*Cathy is a professional and experienced speaker, and it showed. Her speciality is maritime heroes, and her normal habitat cruise ships. On cruises she always tries to offer a talk that connects in some way to where they are, but, as she had told us beforehand, finding a nautical topic with a connection to Chipping…
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