Category: RNSA

Vivien Ryser, our longtime Treasurer invites the East Coasters each year to a swimming Barbeque at her home, Alfa House in West Mersea. After almost four months of benign, indeed ‘Mediterranean’ weather it was a chance for the North Sea to send a remi…

Excellent navigation practice, enough wind to sail, warm and clear skies, varied port stops, and enough brown sauce to replace water.

Boat checks and food shopping done, we set sail and dived straight in with boat handling and manoeuvre training whil…

Ideal conditions for the final race of the Summer Series except perhaps for the honking tide greeted the small fleet to contest the final podium places. Sunshine set the course of a beat into the foul tide to NE Ryde Middle, a kite reach to Browndown …

Members who read my editorial in the recent Journal will have noted that I announced to the Committee my intention to step down as your General Secretary after a wonderful decade in post. Plan A was for this to be effective in the month of September bu…

Fifth and final evening of racing for Portsmouth Dinghy Sailors in the series Thursday night saw 7 boats out for the final races of the series. Lee Bichard of the RN Watersports Centre (RNWC) kindly ran the two races in a light South Westerly breeze. …

With boats away competing in Cork Week and others on holiday the penultimate race of the Summer Series was poorly supported, however unsurprisingly all the boats in contention for the podium places were racing and the results set up a grand stand finis…

On Thursday and Friday an RNSA team competed at the inaugural Commodore’s Invitational Regatta at the Royal Yacht Squadron racing against other notable yacht and sailing clubs from around the UK. The Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron (RYS), Jamie S…

6 yachts turned out for a light airs race. JJT was away to compete in the Beaufort Cup in Cork and a few others were on holiday or wanted to watch a strange contest where 22 men kick a ball to each other and very occasionally have a rest by putting it…

Elite RNSA Team at RYS Cdre Invitation Cup First day in the RYS J70 Invitation Cup saw the team waiting for wind for most of the first morning.

Earlier plans to create a world record placed on hold. sail past also on hold. No information whether it is or not going to happen. No plans shown should a sail past still be on the cards.

Sorry we cannot be more definite. Mark Smith, Chairman of Aro…