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Dusseldorf 2018
Barnaby S and Roger B visited Europe’s biggest and most impressive boat show in Dusseldorf in January 2018. Barnaby did it as a day trip, leaving Chadlington at an unholy hour to catch the 0700 flight from Birmingham. Roger spent the previous night in Birmingham, as he doesn’t do early (well not that early!). Flybe’s…
Read MoreNovember 2017 – Norway: land, sea and air – Hugh Woodsend
Rear Commodore Hugh Woodsend knows Norway well. He’s been there countless times. He’s buzzed about the mountains at zero feet and performed air displays as a development test pilot in command of an F104 Starfighter or F16; he’s made yacht or gin palace deliveries; and he’s enjoyed cruises there after yacht races. This year, in…
Read MoreOctober 2017 – Max Liberson – “The Boat they laughed at!”
Max was introduced as being “one of a kind” whatever that means. He said he felt very much at home here with us, whatever that meant. Max soon had us laughing. His talk was indeed a hoot. But here was a man who clearly knew exactly what he was doing, and what he and his…
Read MoreSeptember 2017 – Dick Durham “Voyage between Empires”
Our September talk, held at the Chippy Chequers, was given by writer, raconteur and Yachting Monthly’s editor-at-large Dick Durham, on a topic that has fascinated yachties and historians for years. Was Erskine Childers’ pre-WW1 classic spy thriller The Riddle of the Sands just a novel, or was it a warning about a real threat of…
Read MoreJuly 2017 – Race Night
CNYC members always maintain a keen sense of competition. This was proved, once again, at the July gathering, when members, Liz and Paul Spencer, hosted a bring-and-share supper at their beautiful own-build home in Chipping Norton. To add a certain zest to the evening, Paul, himself a dedicated ‘petrol-head’, threw an ‘all-comers’ challenge to his…
Read MoreSummer BBQ June 2017
Fresh gravel had been laid to the drive. Furniture had been made, allegedly, for the event. The marquee had been dressed overall, with courtesy flags for far-flung nations, and with a ‘Q’ flag (to save you landlubbers having to look it up, hoisting the “Q” requests “Free Pratique “. Now you know.) The bread, both 7…
Read MoreMay 2017 “Memorable Anchorages” – Alistair and Carolyn Roberts
In a double act husband-and-wife sailors Alistair and Carolyn Roberts gave a memorable talk on their “memorable anchorages”. Having sailed together for over 45 years, spent 279 nights at anchor during their circumnavigation, and 100 or more since, they had had a “self-indulgent” task selecting the most memorable few. They’d picked places that stood out…
Read MoreApril 2017 – Show and Tell
With a last-minute cancellation by our planned speaker the April meeting took on an unusual, impromptu flavour. Dave Oakley opened with a song. Frances Miller kicked of a “show and tell” session with a batch of unusual items she and James had found indispensible during their 15-year circumnavigation. They had been the world’s most unsuccessful…
Read More29th March 2017 – Man is Not Lost – Tom Cunliffe
Back to CNYC for a third time, Tom both celebrated and lamented the astounding developments in navigation over his lifetime. It is to celebrate because knowing effortlessly where you are on the planet to within a few feet is of course remarkable and wonderful. But it has its pitfalls, and he wondered whether one will…
Read MoreFebruary 2017 Chris Adams “Mad About the Isles – a Scottish Passion”
Vice Commodore Chris Adams started his talk by proposing to us some guiding principles for sailing in the wild waters of Western Scotland. These principles might, on reflection, be seen as being equally relevant to sailing in general, and perhaps even to life as a whole. So what was he suggesting? Stop when you are…
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