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The highest Spring tide for 4 months made the timing a little tricky and it wasn’t helped by early morning fog that barely revealed the Isle of Wight from Calshot. But the Skipper and crew of Camena had been up before the chilly dawn to travel down, some on motorbike, from London. Nothing . . . → Read More: Mission Accomplished The AGM and Laying Up dinner this year crept up on us silently and suddenly I realised that it has been two years since my appointment as your commodore. I also reflected that much has changed since I joined the club, not only in my life but also for many members and for many reasons. . . . → Read More: AGM 2008 and Laying Up Dinner Crewman Of The Year Nigel Reese Crewwoman Of The Year Diana Abramova Yachtsperson Of The Year Gill Woodbridge Round The Island Cup Philip Sugarmanand Nanae Gendre Skipper Of The Year Adair Butchins Cruising Cup Bryan Sheinman Commodore’s Trophy Maureen Gorb Most Promising Newcomer Martin Sargeant . . . → Read More: Annual Awards 2008 The background: (From the Telegraph..) LIFEBOAT crews fear being scuppered by crippling new charges for using their radios from Ofcom, the communications regulator. The RNLI could see the price of using its VHF emergency frequencies rise to £250,000 under plans to charge the full commercial rate. . . . → Read More: RNLI and new Ofcom charges
In summary, a great cruise of about 100 miles total starting in Falmouth in Cornwall, stopping off at Helford River, Fowey, and Mevagissey, in glorious suntan lotion weather throughout – we did not hit anything, nothing hit us, we did not murder each other on the boat, . . . → Read More: Summer Cruise – Falmouth and surroundings – 20 to 28 September 2008 Fishy Business! From a very early age my dad quite regularly used to take me out on fishing trips off the South Coast. I can vividly remember my excitement heightened by the earthy pungent aroma of the clinker built fishing boats; they smelt like a sort of farmyard of the sea, a heady odour from . . . → Read More: Its a Fishy Business— It looked as if the July 2008 event would be no less damp and slightly inclement than the 2007 version of the same name, however, surprisingly to some, if not to the forecasters, the afternoon turned bright and intermittently sunny.
. . . → Read More: Commodore’s Garden Party-2008
It has to be said, that the HSSC has had little recent luck in matching clement beautiful and sunny sailing weather with the dates of our proposed club sails. Moreover we have had to cancel, curtail, or severely alter passage plans of every event from last . . . → Read More: Bembridge rediscovered!!!! The Canal du Midi runs for 240km from the River Garonne at Toulouse via Carcassonne to the Mediterranean at Agde. It was the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a minor noble and tax collector, who succeeded in convincing Louis XIV (and more importantly, his first minister, Colbert) of the merits of linking the . . . → Read More: Canal du Midi Trip- May 2008- by Robert Falk
Following a conversation in the Hendon Hall Hotel one evening, Graham Colover offered his boat, a 34 ft Jeanneau named Chai of Burnham, for a sailing trip over the second bank holiday in May. Graham lent Robert full size charts to plan the route for this intended trip which was to Oostende. . . . → Read More: Burnham to Ramsgate.. almost via Ostende! |
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