Little Ship Club

New Members Evening

The AHOY Centre is a charity established to develop a boating and sailing centre catering for all, young, disabled and retired alike. It offers them all the experience, opportunities and new horizons gained through water based activities – plus the opportunity to learn to sail, race, row, build and maintain boats. The AHOY works with many different sectors – the disadvantaged, youth people with disabilities, local schools, youth offenders and people at risk of offending, and many other groups and organisations. It also runs projects working with the Metropolitan Police and the Probation Service.
The Centre is a recognised RYA teaching establishment and 'Sailability' Centre and provides professional training towards recognised qualifications.

Mandy has been at AHOY since before it became operational 5 years ago and has developed and grown as the centre has, and has become an asset in terms of fundraising and day to day development. She has, with the help of others, put into place health and safety criteria/documents as well as Marketing, PR to ensure that AHOY has been able to continue to expand its activities.

Honorary Port Officers’ Dinner

(bar open until midnight)

MENU

• Roast guinea fowl breast served with chorizo, new potatoes, fine beans
• Sticky toffee pudding and custard
• Glass of Port

Tickets £18.00 per person                                            

Dress Code: Lounge Suit/Blazer

This event MUST be booked in advance.

Download the form, complete it then return it with payment to the Club Office 

Sam Steele is the author of UK & Ireland Circumnavigator Guide, a practical guide on planning and preparation for sailing around the UK coastline.
Sam Steele has been sailing offshore for 28 years and has logged over 15,000 miles at sea. Starting in her home-built mirror dinghy on the Broads, she then sailed with the Ocean Youth Club and by the age of 20 had gained her RYA Yachtmaster. Sam has sailed to the Azores and back, cruised around the Canary Islands and the Baltic several times, and in the summer of 2006 sailed around Britain

New Members Evening

Photographic Competition

Richard Hare will be an overview of wood technology in-so-far as it affects marine use (including woodfinishing)

Followed by a Q & A and general discussion at the end.

Tonight's lecture will be based on the film "Shackleton's Boat: The Story Of The James Caird".

Roderic Dunnett is website editor of the James Caird
Society. He got his interest in Shackleton from his
father, Harding McGregor Dunnett, Founder of the Society, author and the maker of tonight's film. Roderic has broadcast some 20 programmes on BBC Radio 3 and has written extensively on music, opera and books for The Independent, FT, Spectator, Oldie, Opera Now, The Strad,and the Church Times. He is the author of or contributor to books on the composers Dvorak and Debussy, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Sir Arthur Bliss, and has a special interest in English Opera and Eastern Europe, where he has travelled extensively. Other passions include Romano-Celtic remains, Greek History and Poetry (which he taught for 15 years), Boys' Hockey (of whose National
Championships he was the founder and administrator from 1981-94).

Best selling author of World Cruising Routes, Jimmy Cornell used to run the ARC and round the world rallies.
He has now completed his third circumnavigation, and will be giving us a talk on "Planning a voyage from the UK to the Med, the Caribbean, and back...and all the way around the world", illustrated with photographs from some of the most attractive cruising destinations in the world

Club member Robert Fellowes will talk about his summer 2007 cruise from Glasgow to the Baltic via Shetland and Norway, when a number of Club members (some of whom appear in the pictures illustrating tonight's presentation) joined him on Chookapa.

Robert's cruise next summer will be a circuit of the Baltic sea, and he hopes once again to welcome members to join him for the various legs.