After a long period of effort, we’ve released the new RNYC web site. I’ve been greatly assisted by Adrian Park (who’s done the lovely graphical work as well as some of the technical stuff) as well as Bruce Grant who’s done a lot of tedious work copying content over as […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Blyth to Clachnaharry Josephine received no more than a perfunctory lick of varnish, and a coat of anti-fouling, for her winter re-fit in 1986/87. There was much more work to be done on her “tender”, a Mirror Dinghy called M-T. M-T had suffered a stove-in bow in a collision with the safety boat during […]
Blyth to Kirkwall The crew for Josephine‘s 1986 cruise were my brother, Colin, with whom, many years ago, I used to sail on an old GP14 dinghy, and Edward Chester, who readers of Josephine‘s previous logs, will have encountered on her cruise to Denmark in 1984, and to the Dutch Provinces in 1985. This […]
Blyth to Ijmuiden (via Whitby) In 1984, Josephine of Hoo cruised extensively in Danish waters. Her crew became so enamoured of flat, tideless seas, sunshine and soft winds, that in 1985 the decision was made to re-sample the luxury of continental sailing, by visiting Holland. The crew were to be […]
1. Planning 2. The first leg – Blyth to Kirkwall 3. Orkney to Farœ 4. Torshavn 5. Klaksvik, Eidi, Vestmanhavn 6. Farœ to Orkney 7. Skarabrae and Maeshowe 1. Planning We did not choose to cruise to the Farœ Islands in the same year as the Falklands Crisis, but the […]
The boat and her crew Goddess Freya is a Folkboat, 25′ LOA, 7′.2 Beam and 4′ Draft. Long keeled and with the legendary sea-kindliness of her class, she seemed a good boat for the trip, even if the absence of both a self-draining cockpit or a reliable auxiliary motor added […]
I have been puzzling what to do with my old cruising logs, and have decided to post them on the RNYC website. I hope you like them. See the Cruising page. ABG
A reminder that the Club AGM is taking place this Thursday 23rd January at 7.30pm. Due to the postponement of commencing some electrical work required on HY Tyne, we are still open and therefore able to have the meeting on board the Club Ship rather than at the Port of […]
Triune of Troy is a Channel Class auxilliary bermudan cutter designed by Laurent Giles & Son and built by A H Moody & Son in 1938. She is 37.9′ LOA, 26′ LWL, 8.8′ beam and 6′ draft. Her sail area is 624 sq ft, and her design displacement is 6.9 […]
RNYC will once again be running winter racing in the Blyth Harbour and Blyth Bay area. This is an open series and we welcome non-members to take part. Entries Racing is open to Yachts and keelboats. There will be combined starts, but results will be split into classes, although class […]