Category: Lecture Summary

. Wednesday 2nd March Linda Crewe-Gee Girl’s Guide to the Southern Ocean       Linda Crewe-Gee realised a dream when she joined Tecla, a traditional Dutch tall ship, for a voyage from Auckland across the Southern Ocean via Cape Horn to the Falkland Islands. Although no novice, this was very different from the sort…

Wednesday 2nd December Capt Ian McNaught From Cruise Liners to Trinity House With 40 years maritime experience, having been Master of the QE2 and Queen Victoria in his day job at Cunard before joining Seabourn, Ian then became Executive Director and now Deputy Master of Trinity House. He was in command of the QE2 on…

Wednesday 11th November Steve Carson and Damien Oliver Coastguard: latest organisation and new Helicopters     Solent Coastguard has moved into the new Fareham Maritime Operations Centre, which also manages the other remaining Coastguard operations at Dover, Aberdeen, Shetland, Stornoway, Belfast, Holyhead, Milford Haven, Falmouth and Humber. We have an opportunity to hear how the…

Wednesday 4th November Julia Jones Ghost in the Cabin; Sailing Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck     Arthur Ransome owned many boats over the years. Peter Duck was commissioned in his later life and is a ketch with a modest sail plan, aiming for sea keeping rather than performance.   Julia Jones spent her childhood years…

21st October 2015 Colin van Geffen Flying Boats of Southampton   Flying boats were in use for less than sixty years, starting soon after the Wright brothers’ first controlled powered flight in 1903 until the late 1950s with the advent of the jet airliner. Throughout this time Southampton has played an important part in this…

            Wednesday October 7th Professor Carl Ross How Deep the Ocean ? – Advances in Submarine Structures   Carl Ross was Deputy Chief of the Project Design Office at Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders), Barrow-in-Furness. He then moved into academic engineering research at University of Manchester, Teeside and subsequently Portsmouth, where is he now emeritus Professor of Structural…

 Wednesday 25th November     Jimmy Cornell   Atlantic crossing planning and an Arctic voyage Having just completed a 10,000 miles voyage on his new yacht Aventura that took him from London to Greenland, Arctic Canada, Newfoundland, US east coast and the Bahamas, Jimmy will tell us about voyage planning, the new Atlantic Odyssey rally…

     Wednesday 28th October          Chris Smith and Cocky Taanman Unlikely Places: Albania and Ukraine   Durres – Albania’s second port   Two of the best known Mediterranean cruising grounds, Ionian and Croatia, are separated by 150 miles of Albania. So Chris would like to know why he met only six other cruising yachts during…

  Wednesday 14th October     Duncan Wells Single Handed Sailing Techniques   GXSA member Duncan explains bullet-proof techniques for departing and returning to the dock, anchoring with confidence and getting an incapacitated casualty in the water back on board when short-handed, plus many other tips.  His new book  ‘Stress Free Sailing – Single &…

Wednesday 7th January  Presentations by GXSA Members Part 1 Steve Daish – What could possibly go wrong ? The perils of yacht delivery. Steve describes a recent sailing trip in the Med which all ended rather abruptly…   Part 2 Bernie Smallman – Antarctica in comfort Bernie talks about her recent visit to the Falklands,…