Carl Vincent

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Winter racing

Calling all winter racers. Next race is this Sunday at 11.00 am Nick Spur will be RO Red haze will be out. Any other takers? Billy whizz, Odin, Kandula, Emigre, Auf wiedersehen Pet, No Permission It is not to late to still enter the series £30 paid before the race […]

The Log of the Iolanthe 1928

The Skipper: A Johnson 1st Mate and Purser: R Davy A.B.: L Davy Cabin Boy: T Thackary The gaff sloop Iolanthe was built at Kolbjornsvik, Arendal in Norway in 1915. In 1928 her owner, Arthur Johnson, was a member of Tynemouth Sailing Club. He joined the Northumberland Yacht Club later. […]

High Tides & RNYC

Over the past two days a huge amount of work has been done by Mike Wade and his team of Garry Robson, Alan Dewar, Ken Brown Alan Richardson (snr) and Alan Richardson. During the exceptionally high tide yesterday the walkway rose higher than the gangway that is bolted to the […]

Pontoon Power

We have removed all power from the pontoons for 24 hours to enable us to get a fix on the consumption of the House Yacht at its busiest time of the week. The power will be switched back on around lunchtime tomorrow. This is needed because of the problems we […]

Severe Weather Warning

We have received the following weather warning from the Port of Blyth Harbour Master, which in itself is unusual and therefore should not be ignored: ALL PLEASE NOTE THAT AN AMBER WARNING FOR THE REGION HAS BEEN ISSUED EFFECTIVE FROM 0200HRS THURSDAY FOR WINDS OF 60 -70MPH WITH POSSIBLE GUSTS […]