Category: Lectures 2011-2020

 Programme Autumn 2020 On line talks begin at 8.15pm.  Zoom invitations will be sent to members and registered visitors at least one day before the talk. Help on using Zoom for GXSA sessions can be found by clicking this link The Extraordinary Voyage of Mary Bryant John Apps The events that led Mary Bryant to…

 Programme Spring 2020 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Paddington: Motorboating in Europe James and Carol Littlewood Having sailed the coastline from the Norwegian Arctic Circle to La Rochelle, James and Carol decided to visit the “inside”. In 2014 they started to explore the gutters of France, the ditches of Belgium,…

 Programme Autumn 2019 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Antarctic Antics David Bray David is a retired Master Mariner and an expert in dynamic positioning of vessels. He will tell us about his experiences working as Navigating Officer in the research vessel RRS “John Biscoe” in Antarctica during the 1970s. At…

   Programme Spring 2019 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Oceanography and Climate Change in the Arctic Dr Simon Boxall Simon is Principal Teaching Fellow in Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton. He heads up the science on the Cape Farewell programme focusing on the…

 Programme Autumn 2018 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Marlin’s Mission Dave Selby Dave Selby is a passionate sailor who’s been fumbling around the east coast for years in Marlin, his 18-ft Sailfish, without dying once. In 2016 the PBO columnist set off on Marlin’s Mission to sail 340 miles up the…

 Programme Spring 2018 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Shackleton – The greatest story ever told Geoff Selley Geoff Selley will recreate the original lantern slide lecture given by a member of Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 – 17 Antarctic Expedition. His presentation tells the extraordinary story of the survival of the ill-fated…

 Programme Autumn 2017 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Dianne Mannering Send Us Some Women When the Governor of Australia wrote home to Lord Sydney (yes, that’s why it’s called Sydney) asking for some women, he was sent Newgate Gaol’s worst offenders. This is the story of their amazing sea voyage…

 Programme Autumn 2016 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Elaine and Bob Hazell From Kiwis to Orangutans Elaine and Bob are on a Round the World Odyssey, and taking the time out to tell GXSA all about it. Their second leg took them from New Zealand to Borneo.  A fantastic tale…

 Programme Spring 2017 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm Peter Bruce Heavy Weather Sailing Peter Bruce is a well known author having published books such as Solent Hazards, Solent and Island Tidal Streams and a newly updated 7th edition of Heavy Weather Sailing. We look forward to learning how to deal…

Programme Spring 2015 Talks begin at 8.15pm, bar and coffee open from 7.30pm January 7th Presentations by GXSA Members Part 1  Steve Daish – What could possibly go wrong? The perils of yacht delivery Part 2  Bernie Smallman – Antarctica in Comfort. South Georgia, the Falklands and Cape Horn   More details January 14th David Brook…