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March 2021: John Osmond “Surviving war and weather in the Falklands”
By way of a change from the usual yachting topics, John Osmond presented his experiences in the South Atlantic in 1982 as a member of the Royal Navy Task Force sent to recapture the Falkland Islands from Argentina. Curiously the date of the presentation was the 39th anniversary of when Argentine ships would have been…
Read MoreFebruary 2021: Chris Adams “Hebrides Unlocked – Covid Therapy”
After the success of our virtual AGM we were treated in February to a zoom talk covering 5 weeks of glorious sailing in the Western Isles as the COVID restrictions were temporarily relaxed last summer. Members Chris & Ann Adams visited (and beautifully photographed) all of the major Hebridean Islands covering more than 600 miles…
Read MoreFebruary 2020 – Julian and Alison Cable – The West coast of Ireland
Julian and Alison Cable took turns to recount their a voyage round Ireland, in a small and elderly little yacht. They started by emphasising that this was not a single trial of endurance – they had avoided long passages, night sailing and bad weather by leaving the boat and flying home after each of the…
Read MoreJanuary 2020 – Sam Llewellyn – Adventures in the Gulf Stream
Sam is a natural raconteur with a dry humour that many of us know from his articles in Practical Boat Owner, republished in “The Minimum Boat”. If you haven’t read it, do. It is as funny as “Three men in a Boat” but more useful to us who are into boats. As Sam explained, the…
Read MoreNovember 2019 – Chris Adams – racing from Sydney to Hobart
Our man Chris retired in 2008 and decided to learn to sail. Chris being Chris he did this in full not half measure and did the lot – everything from Competent Crew through to Yachtmaster Ocean. And he did it in Australasia, for some reason, which is why he ended up competing in that well-known…
Read MoreOctober 2019 – Nic Compton – The Shipping Forecast
The old wooden cutter Valkyrie must have made a picturesque sight buried under 6in of snow in Emsworth creek, during the winter of 1962. It was one of the coldest winters on record, and Nic Compton’s parents had just returned from Bristol with their 2-year-old son and brand new baby Nic. Below decks, the boat…
Read MoreSeptember 2019 – Justin Tyers – Phoenix from the Ashes
There are house fires and there are house fires. In Justin and Linda’s case their timber-framed, open-plan house blazed so fiercely and so quickly after they’d first smelt smoke, and noticed the red glow between the floorboards, that the fire service had had to withdraw and let it roar and collapse, as it spectacularly did.…
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Read MoreMike Austin – The voyage of the Liberdade
Mike told us a story of some indomitable individuals, linked through their sailing exploits. The story started with Joshua Slocum. Slocum, after being stranded in Brazil with his family, designed and built Liberdade, a shallow-draft junk-rigged 35 footer to sail home. Launched in 1888, she enjoyed a tiny 2’6” draft and her crew enjoyed a…
Read MoreApril 2019 – Phil Levermore – Gibraltar to Beirut the Slow Way
Many suns ago member Phil Levermore took a flight westwards out of Israel into the rays of the setting sun, musing to himself that those rays had lit the entire Mediterranean on their way to him. Ambition dawned to sail the full length of the Med, all the way to its East coast, and to…
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