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 Cruising News, Events and Notes
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| Welcome to the Cruising page of the Royal Southern Yacht Club. Welcome Article |
Horse & Jockey Rally - Croc' spotting in the upper reaches.
in Cruising News & Reports
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| High summer on July 4th, saw the R. Southerns' annual quest up the Limpopo……..sorry, Hamble, for an unlikely glimpse of the occasional wilderbeast or crocodile in the upper reaches. |
| Twenty-eight intrepid souls set off in a variety of open craft headed by the Club launch suitably re-named the "African Scream" and piloted by veteran white (haired) hunter 'Humphrey Stobart' and guided by our esteemed leader, 'Audrey Heartburn' aka Angus and Annette. |
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Exbury Rally May 2008
in Cruising News & Reports
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Having retired in 2001 and then sailed across the Atlantic to spend five years cruising, this RSrnYC Rally to Exbury was our first opportunity to sail mid-week with the Club.
What a delight it proved to be……….
We actually started off for this on the previous weekend by joining up with the Pontoon Party at Yarmouth, sadly it was a windless weekend but Pontoon Parties are notorious and this one did not fail to match up! |
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Upper Helford River Tremayne Quay.
in Cruising Notes
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| The charm of the Helford River will be known to all who explore the West Country. And there are a fair number of of well maintained ( green ) visitors moorings in the main reach with good pick-up buoys, whilst to the west of them is a small patch where anchoring is permitted, and the RNSA buoy will be found - for those entitled to use it. Restraints on anchoring to the west of this because of oyster beds and also further out near Grebe Rock ( eel grass preservation ) will be found updated in almanacs and pilots. |
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Welcome Back Adrian Flanagan
in Cruising News & Reports
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| HMS Trumpeter and several yachts and motorboats carrying family and friends met Adrian and his 40ft yacht Barrabas at East Bramble mark and accompanied him up the River Hamble to the Royal Southern Yacht Club, where a crowd of people was waiting on the dockside. |
| Mrs Annette Newton, Commodore of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, welcomed Adrian to Hamble. “We have all been amazed at your determination and tenacity” she said, “and we would like to make you an honorary member of the club for the next year”. |
| Website Editor Note: As Adrian was not actually racing we put this article in "Cruising" but to call his voyage a cruise would be the understatement of the year. |
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Ladies Afloat - April Report
in Cruising News & Reports
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| Oh ye of little faith! After what originally appeared to be a non-starter due to bad weather, the first Ladies Afloat outing of the season turned out to be a resounding success! |
| Despite the gloomy skies, rain & notwithstanding one or two earlier cancellations, a larger group than usual turned up in the upper bar of the Club at our pre-declared meeting time of 10:00 hrs. We chatted, looked glumly out of the window, drank some coffee, commiserated with one another, drank some more coffee and held a straw poll of intentions which varied from "definitely not" to "well, possibly" |
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Ladies Afloat Days
in Cruising Committee
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| As you may know, “Ladies Afloat” is a once a month, Wednesday outing when Ladies who perhaps do not have the opportunity to sail as much as they may wish, are encouraged to have a day out in company on a members’ boat. |
| No experience is necessary and whilst it is not an instructional course, the ladies are very welcome to join in the sailing/helming/sail trimming activities (or simply enjoy watching & chatting to the others) as they wish. |
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Lymington Mid Week Rally Report 16th-17th April
in Cruising News & Reports
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It was a good sail in sunshine with a strong ebb tide and the entrance to the Lymington suddenly appeared on the bow marked by the exit of the ferry.
We motored up the river squeezing between the moored yachts, the ferry and the racing dinghies. I just wonder what is going to happen if they allow the larger ferries to plough between Lymington and Yarmouth. |
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Kynance Cove
in Cruising Notes
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| Kynance Cove is one of the most attractive and dramatic anchorages in the West Country, lying just over a mile NNW of the Lizard Point. |
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There are really two Weymouths.
in Cruising Notes
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There are really two Weymouths. Seaside Weymouth spread along the splendid sandy bay and the cosy intimate Weymouth harbour to the south of it. But I have never found the harbour to live up to expectations as a port of call for cruising yachts.
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West Bay Dorset 50 42N 02 45W.
in Cruising Notes
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I had always been hoping for a halfway harbour in crossing Lyme Bay - 45nm from Portland Bill to Dart - too often a tedious plug against a westerly , or a motoring marathon in a calm. Lyme Regis harbour is of limited use only to bilge keelers or other shallow drafters. Local boats do not always make you welcome drying out against the mole.
The two or three offshore moorings are exposed and most unlikely to allow a peaceful night.
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