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East Coast sailing - 18/04/2010

Our rally season is about to get going.

Hillyard to Hungary - 18/04/2010

Fellow club-members might be interested in the tale of my taking my 1939 Hillyard 5-ton gaff cutter, Elizabeth Jane, to Hungary for her 70th birthday.

Skippers & Crew Rep This Week - 29/03/2010

Emmy Hettena  is the S &C rep on duty at the Club tomorrow, Tuesday March 30.  Find her, suitably labelled (hopefully drink in hand and esconced in a comfortable chair) in the lounge from about 1800 hrs.

The season starts at Easter - 27/03/2010

The Easter Rally looks to my crew to be an opportunity for some creative sailing mixed with a liberal helping of social company and in the prospect of languid spring days with gentle following winds.

Copper coating or raw skill? (and gripping video...) - 22/03/2010

This has to be the last of my reports of our winter’s copper coating saga. The work was finished in January and Storm Petrel was back in the water, rigged and ready to go in good time for the February Fast Cruise, but as the March FC hove into view we were looking to consolidate our February victory.

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Latest book reviews

Published by Adlard Coles, this latest volume by Anthony Burton (text) and  Derek Pratt (photographs) is well written and beautifully photographed.

 

Designing by the seat of my pants - Memoir by Ron Holland

 

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