Boat Yard

Ron Laurie (thanks!) has had a tidy up in the boat yard, now that Stag 2 has left for her winter home and freed up some space. This involves mainly the cadet boats, Optimists and Toppers, also the Lasers. Please remember to let me know if you plan to sail over the winter (or are certain you won’t). Please…

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What the Dickens – it’s Tollesbury

Many of you will be aware that various scenes from the BBC One Christmas drama Great Expectations were filmed around Tollesbury and Salcott. The opening scenes were filmed on the marshes (in the mud!) and the forge was built specially on the RSPB reserve at Abbotts Hall Farm. If you want to watch it, it is on BBC One…

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New East Coast Sailing Magazine

A new online sailing magazine for East Coast sailors has been launched. It is called East Coast Sailing. The latest issue (November 2011) has articles on the following: Cruising Contrasting stories – Danger on the Deben and Cornsilk in Holland. Boat test The extraordinary one-off Olympic hopeful Thrial. Navigation Roger Gaspar writes about surveying the shallows. The magazine is…

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