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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

Events Calendar