Two skipper’s newsletters have been sent to all regular skippers of Sea Essay this season.
For reference purposes these can also be downloaded from here:
All Skippers Newsletters for the last few years are also available here:
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Coastguard Helicopter Video
This happened a year of two back so although you may have seen this before is too good to leave languishing in cyberspace. Many thanks to Andy Rankine for editing this down.
This is a short video clip of a Coastguard helicopter exercise conducted in conjunction with Sea Essay.
This exercise was pre-arranged I believe. The helicopter crew would have initially briefed the skipper about what is going to happen and what direction to sail etc. The pilot often requires the yacht to sail on a close reach while the crewman is lowered down on the winch. The helm’s role is critical and they need to avoid looking up at the aircraft or otherwise being distracted. Note the level of noise. It is extremely hard to communicate on board with a helicopter hovering over your heads.
Charter Opportunities
Calling all skippers and crew. We still have the following fantastic opportunities available for private charters during the summer cruise.
So if any of you are interested, please make this known. Tell your friends or share your idea on the Facebook Group where we now have about 150 members. Failing that if you might be interested in doing any of these weeks on Sea Time terms, please contact Susie Welch at the Crew Bureau on seatimebureau@channelsailing.org
Skippers interested in taking any of these weeks as a private charter should
in the first instance contact Adrian Barnes, boscombe@lineone.net
- 8th to 15th June – Guernsey to Brest
- 15th to 22 June – Brest to Pornichet
- 13th to 20th July – La Trinite to Brest
- 20th to 27th July – Brest to Falmouth
CSD Google Calendar
Note. This calendar is under development. Its main focus is for tracking availability of Sea Essay and Training Events.
If you try this, whether you like it or have difficulties, please feedback to the CSD webmaster@channelsailing.org.
The advantage of this calendar is that it can be shared with members. If you already use Google Calendar you can subscribe to a read only copy of this calendar by clicking on the + sign at the Bottom Right of the calendar below. You will then be able to view this calendar it alongside your own.
That said, in the event of any conflict between this and the Official Sailing Programme which is Excel based you are advised to refer to the Official Programme. This calendar is maintained and updated by the webmaster.
2019 Sailing Programme
The Sailing Programme for 2019 was last updated on 1 July 2019.
It may be found on the usual page and is accessible as always from the main menu.
Bids for charters, training, familiarization and Sea Time should be made through the relevant member of the organizing committee.
Yacht Husband Team – Jan 2019
The following photo appeared on Facebook on 3 Jan 2019.
The CSD Yacht Husband Team with hard hats, a sense of humour and safety glasses, ready for anti-fouling.
Sea Essay is now back in the water in readiness for the 2019 season.
Skipper Familiarisation
We will be holding Skipper Familiarisation sessions for Sea Essay on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 February 2019.
- All newly Approved Skippers and those anticipating becoming Approved Skippers in 2019 must attend a familiarisation session before they are allowed to charter the boat.
- Approved Skippers who have not sailed on Sea Essay in 2018 are strongly advised to attend a session as a refresher.
The sessions are held aboard Sea Essay at Mercury Yacht Harbour and take about 3 hours.
- If the weather permits we may go for a short sail in the afternoon.
- If you would like to attend please email Jeff Llewellyn (j.llewellyn57@ntlworld.com).
- Joining details and further instructions will be sent nearer the time.
Wanted – photos
This is just a quick note to ask for photos that might be useful for this website of CSD publicity. Particularly, action shots of members enjoying the use of Sea Essay.
Photos should sent to the webmaster.
Where is Sea Essay now?
Sea Essay is fitted with a AIS transponder that transmits her location other suitably equipped vessels. This is a safety feature but as a side effect, it enables anyone who who knows how to see where she goes. If you are interested in following along then the following page (Click ‘Continue Reading‘) will explain how you can find out where she is and what you have been missing out on.
Note that AIS reception is better in some areas than others because VHF signals rarely extend beyond ‘line of sight’.
//channelsailing.org/seaessay-2/where-is-sea-essay-now/
Read once – About this website
Welcome to this website. Please take a moment to orientate yourself:
- In particular, please take a look at the ‘
About’ menu which will pop-up below the word ‘ABOUT’ if you move your mouse or cursor in this area of the Menu bar. - Note the tiny black triangle to the right of the word About. This indicates that this menu has a drop-down sub-menu to explore. The same applies to the ‘LINKS’ menu.
About’ menu which will pop-up below the word ‘ABOUT’ if you move your mouse or cursor in this area of the Menu bar.
- Please look out for hyperlinks such as this one to the FAQs.
- Hopefully you will all appreciate the photographs which have been contributed by members. Please do contribute more if you have any. The easiest way to do this is to either email them to the webmaster or post them on Facebook – preferably in an album.
- Comments and suggestions for further improvement are always welcome.