White Horse Cruising Club

For tales of Sailing and the Sea

Based in the Vale of the White Horse in Oxfordshire

Next meeting - February 8th Clive Sutherland - The islands of the English Channel - read more

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LATEST NEWS

Pirates of the River Thames ?

John Magraw had a skirmish with some local pirates recently.

Read the full story
Paul Molyneaux has started EXERCISE TRANSGLOBE and is skippering 'Challenger' in the Hobart to Auckland leg. They arrived yesterday - 13th January in 3rd place. ~ Click on images for more.

 

 Download some sailing items of interest to your computer or MP3 player click here for the Furled Sails podcasts or here for Yacht Cruising video items.  
LIVE ship movements (AIS) data now available here - the page auto refreshes and you can zoom in to any area. Try it. . .
The visit to Chatham Historic Naval Dockyard - Saturday 5th September was a great success - see the pictures and read all about it
Chatham was the senior British naval dockyard. The attractions of the Historic Dockyard are first class, three naval ships to go over, the original 1000 foot rope walk plus the largest collection of shore-based lifeboats.

Live Sailing news tickertape - click on a story to find out more . . .(May need Internet Explorer)

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Haven't got the right size chart? Try this link for fully zoomable (to full resolution) chartlets. Lots of other information on this excellent site.

In addition if you intend sailing the East Coast don't forget to download the latest shifting sands chartlets here.

  
 

 

  

 
 

Yachting Monthly has Libby Purves'

and Tom Cunliffe's columns in MP3 format.

  
 

Read 'All at Sea' on line 

Click on the logo                                    Two recent observations on 
                                                                  Marine Insurance matters. 
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Have you tried Google Earth yet? As sailors and navigators it is an extremely useful resource. Great for checking the pilotage and approaches of a new port or secluded anchorage. It now has wave height buoy data! Download it here. (Better with broadband)

  

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Monitor your favourite RNLI stations from your PC.

Click on the picture to download

the Pager software. Now also available for your mobile.

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Click on the picture to update yourself on the latest VHF developments.
Try this link for pretty good quality sailing video news items.

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Please contribute material to expand the website and make it more interesting.

We particularly need sailing pictures (from your last cruise?), anecdotes, confessions etc.

If you find any interesting links on the internet which other members may also find interesting please send them to peter.bradley2@btconnect.com and I'll include them.

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  This webpage was updated on 17 January, 2010
 
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