Cruising

2013 Cruising Programme  

The Club runs a cruising programme that is notable for the quality and variety of its events. All members are cordially invited to participate, whether as yacht owners or as crew.

We are privileged to have many members with lovely yachts, not just in the Solent but also in some of the best sailing areas of the world. Our objective is to enable as many of us as possible to enjoy sailing together, sometimes in familiar waters but often in special places that one would never have managed on one's own.

As always with the Royal Thames, we try to conduct ourselves in style, calling on locally-based members or our reciprocal clubs wherever possible to provide that special something to make the event truly memorable.

Organising a successful rally in some distant corner of the globe can be a lengthy process, so your cruising committee is working up a strategy based on a five-year rolling plan. As well as enabling members to plan their own movements to fit in with key events, we hope this will ensure that we do not get stuck in a rut and overlook new opportunities. To whet your appetites, consider the Grenada rally scheduled for February 2011, for classic Caribbean windy warm weather sailing, or to the altogether cooler Chesapeake Bay rally that September, being organised by our friends over at the Cruising Club of America.

Photographs

Most yachts are things of beauty and many of the locations in which we sail are lovely; some of our members are not too bad looking themselves. But we have relatively few pictures of cruising members actually sailing their yachts. During this year, can members who own yachts make a little effort to obtain a picture of themselves in action? Then simply email a copy to the Sailing Secretary together with a note saying who when where. A Rogues Gallery may be created on this website....

2008 Cruising Reports Click here

2009 Cruising Reports Click here 

2010 Cruising Reports Click here

2011 Cruising Reports Click here