Browsing Archive: January, 2009

Gallery

Posted by Web Master on Wednesday, January 28, 2009, In : Album 
New photo's now added courtesy of Allan, a new member. Still more needed - please email today - your boat or sailing topics - anything nautical. You must be the owner of the pictures. Please give brief details.
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Dick Bennett - a trip to Iceland 20th January 2009

Posted by Beryl on Thursday, January 22, 2009, In : Previous Meetings 
On January 20th we accompanied Dick Bennett on a trip to Iceland on his lovely boat, a
freedom rigged 35ft ketch "Serrann".  The slides and his excellent commentary were a
joy.  However, the tale became very exciting on the return journey . A very heavy storm
hit them mid-way from Iceland to Scotland and there was no escape.  The boat weathered
the storm for some time but then "the biggest bang I've ever heard in my life" and his next
recollection was being in the raging sea some yards away from ...
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Blog links

Posted by Web Master on Wednesday, January 21, 2009, In : Links 

Click any item on the right hand side either under Tags, Categories, Recent Posts, Blog Archive or Blog Roll.
so if you  click on weather you get weather. If you click on links you will get canal,weather and this post links plus others as they are added.

The other way is to enter a search term in the search facility at the top of the blog page then click on search!


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Members Night and Quiz 6th January 2009

Posted by Web Master on Wednesday, January 7, 2009, In : Previous Meetings 
Despite Arctic conditions there was a good turn out for our members night this year.

Bernard, from his days as a Glider Pilot Instructor gave us a fascinating insight into the day of a typical gliding instruction outing. "First get your victim then bolt the plane together!" He recalled the days of going solo for the first time when the canopy was shut above you and you looked up to realise the Instructor was outside the aircraft and you were on your own. He told how the "Tug" plane would some...
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