At the weekend had a cruise over to Queensbrough in Kent, this took in 4 Rivers, twice in 2 days, river Crouch Thames Medway and Swale, I would like to thank my crew for the weekend Janet and Teri who improved my knowledge of horse, to know end, and I in-return taught them about WW2…
Summer, sailing shenanigans around the East coast for the NFYC members. Intrepide explorers venturing North for the tranquility of Scotland or South to Devon & Cornwall and some even making it to The Scilly Isles. It’s been a busy July for the NFYC cruisers. We still have the Medway Cruise to come rounding off an…
The fleet was split with Flyer & Obsession spending the night at anchor in the River Roach and the rest of the fleet including Kokomo, Ithuna & Lunan deciding to leave North Fambridge at a misty 05.00am on Thursday morning. Unfortunately a few boats decided not to come at the last minute due to the…
The first Club cruise was last weekend with a mini cruise to Burnham and a meal in the Swallowtail Restaurant. 4 yachts left the moorings for a day sail on the river; the sun was out and just the right amount of wind to get them down to Burnham Marina. On mooring up Off Piste…
On Saturday the 14th May 2022 NFYC members attended the Annual Fitting out Super in the clubhouse. Feedback, via various media, was that a good time was had by all. Excellent food and an “interesting” fun raffle. An eclectic mix of donated prizes including mushy peas, biscuits and wine. The Winter Series prize giving was…
This is the key weekends where we set ourselves up for a successful year by cracking all those jobs we would rather not do when sailing is on offer! Sunday was the first of our two maintenance days and 19 club members turned out to clean and paint. Jenny, Lynette, Pauline and Margaret made lots…
The 1st official event of the year was kicked off with a quiz night with bangers & mash, beans & onion gravy for dinner before starting the quiz with some general knowledge as well as some nautical questions and a Picture Round. Team Quavers won the night with expert knowledge of Harry Potter, proving it…
NFYC jointly held a VHF radio course with Premier Sailing. Many people find the use of a radio somewhat daunting, particularly once they realise everyone can “listen in”. A VHF radio is an essential piece of safety equipment on yachts and it is vital to understand the correct procedures which was covered in the course….
