Cruising
The Club is privileged to have many members who own lovely yachts or motor yachts, and who enjoy using them in company with other members and their guests. The Club's cruising side has a well-deserved reputation for hospitality and newcomers can be sure of a warm welcome on any Thames cruising event or indeed on any yacht flying the Cumberland pennant.
The core of our UK cruising programme is a series of three or four Solent-based events, of which the flagship is the Cumberland Regatta, held in mid-summer. A typical Thames mix of smart and casual, keen racing and fine dining, old and new friendships, this is an event in which all members should aim to participate.
For members unable to get to the Solent, we organise a few regional gatherings each year. Some are small and informal. Some, as with the splendid Cote d'Azur party in 2007, can be on a truly grand scale.
For the cruising enthusiast, the world has so many exciting places in which to sail. The Club aims to organise rallies each year in at least two such locations. As always with the Thames, we try to do things with style, calling on locally-based members or reciprocal clubs wherever possible to provide that special something to make the rally truly memorable. We hold a Cruising Forum at Knightsbridge in January each year at which ideas for new, ever more exotic locations are hotly debated.
Proposed Cruising dates
2009
24th to 26th April Spring Excuse
16th to 17th May St. Vaast Gastronomy
7th to 15th June Turkish Rally
26th to 28th June Cumberland Regatta including the annual dinner of the Cumberland Sailing Society (founded 1775)
9th August Hurst Picnic
29th August to 12th September Vancouver Rally (ICOYC)
2010
March New Zealand (ICOYC)
June West Scotland Rally
July Baltic Rally (tbc)
September Mallorca (tbc)
Scroll down for the full list of RTYC 2008 Cruising events
January |
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Tuesday 20th |
Cruising Forum at 60 Knightsbridge |
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February |
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Sat 23rd - Sun 2nd March |
Gstaad Ski-Yachting (including practice) |
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March |
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Sat 8th - Sat 22nd |
Caribbean Cruising Rally |
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April |
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Fri 25th - Sun 27th |
Spring Excuse - Beaulieu/Poole |
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Sun 27th - Sat 3rd May |
Stanford Antigua Sailing Week. |
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May |
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Fri 30th - Mon 2nd June |
St Vaast ‘Le Weekend Gastronomique' |
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June |
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Saturday 14th |
Staff Day Afloat |
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Fri 20th - Sun 22nd |
Cumberland Regatta - Solent |
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July |
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August |
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Sunday 3rd |
Cowes Cocktail Party |
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Sunday 10th |
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Saturday 30th |
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September |
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Sat 6th - Fri 19th |
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Mon 29th - Sun 5th October |
Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez. |
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October |
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Fri 17th - Sun 19th |
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Wednesday 22nd |
Laying Up Dinner |
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Thursday 23rd |
AGM |
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November |
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Tuesday 25th |
Rally Reunion Dinner |
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December |
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Tuesday 23rd |
Club closes for Christmas until 5th January 2009 |
Events Calendar
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25 November '08
Rally Reunion Dinner
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22 January '09
Cruising Forum
