Meetings are normally held on the second Monday of each month at Henley Golf Club (Click for map) with the bar opening at 19:30 ready for a for 20:00 start. Visitors and New Members are always very welcome so please encourage your friends to come along - they can either pay £7 for the one meeting (deducted from the joining fee if they subsequently join) , or join up for the whole season for just £25 (£35 for families).

2011-2012 Programme Outline

Some dates and subjects are not yet fully detailed, so please visit this page again to check the details!

 

DATE

SPEAKER

TOPIC

9 Jan

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Steffan Meyric-Hughes

Circle Line

followed by

Trevor Morey

Cruising the Aegean

In 2009, sailing journalist Steffan Meyric Hughes became the first person to sail and row around London, the river he (mis)spent most of his teenage years on.

His diminutive adventure, outlined in his talk, 'Circle Line', eschewed the ethos of distant horizons – but could there be a voyage more lonely than solitude in a capital of 10 million souls? Or so steeped in personal memory and the history of civilisation and power?

 

Trevor Morey, longtime Membership Secretary/Treasurer of HOG and his wife Lesley have sailed/cruised the Aegean for many years.

and they have the pictures to prove it!

13 Feb

EC155 good phot.JPGMike Shrives

Man Overboard

The talk is designed to be thought provoking for those who enjoy going to sea in small boats. 

By talking through some scenario’s plus engaging individuals to think through their own circumstances such as boat type, number normally onboard, sailing area, equipment owned etc to ameliorate some of the underlying risk of this pleasurable pastime.  

As a Yacht Master Examiner and former Royal Naval Helicopter pilot to give a realistic overview of what goes on behind the scenes when a PAN PAN or MAYDAY is transmitted and the likely response times. 

Fortunately the occurrence of ‘man overboard’ is statistically very small but we all know that forewarned is forearmed and by giving this subject serious consideration the chances of you being involved in an incident will hopefully be diminished. 

12 Mar

Robert Searle and Martin Alexander

Sailing in the Caribbean

A talk by two members of the RNVR Yacht Club (who also happen to be members of Gerrards Cross Sailing Association)..

Robert and Martin have enjoyed 5 charter yacht holidays in the island groups of the British Virgin Islands, St Vincent/Mustique/Grenadines, St Maarten/St Barts/Anguilla and the Abacos, and will highlight aspects, good and not so good, of chartering, navigation and key anchorages.

 

 

16 Apr

Simon Fraser

The Grand Tour

 

After two seasons in the Caribbean Simon purchased a new Hallberg Rassy 43 and collected it in Sweden2009 and brought her back to the UK. 

He enjoyed the Baltic so much that he decided to return and spend some time there. This talk is about his return trip to Denmark after the first winter in the UK, going through the Inland Waterways of Belgium, and Holland.

The passage included a visit to the Frisian Islands and the shallow, winding River Eider via the Kiel Canal, visiting along the way Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, Brussels and numerous towns along the Standing Mast Route in Holland.

 

Please do try and support the events as we are a relatively small group and need your attendance in order to attract good speakers. Please spread the word to your friends, who as you know, are always welcome to attend for a very modest entry fee.

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