On Sunday 23rd October 2022 the NFYC winter series race No 2 got under way, 5 yachts on the start line, Blue Streak, Flyer, Burgler, Shamir & Menhic. The weather forecasts were for strong winds, gusting over 28kt with heavy rain and thunder storms. This didn’t quite match the 4-6kts we received with Menhic having…
On Saturday 22nd October 2022 the North Fambridge Yacht Club held its 124th annual Laying Up Dinner in its historical club house set on the north bank of the River Crouch overlooking the river. As we celebrated another year afloat, a full programme has been completed; cruising and racing on the river, activities in the…
At the North Fambridge Yacht club, this weekend was the start of our annual winter series, with 7 yachts on the start line ranging from full on racing yachts to a Westerly Centaur with crew of all ages and skills. Our club race officer Pauline set a race course that meant a quick trip to…
At the weekend had a cruise over to Queensbrough in Kent, this took in 4 Rivers, twice in 2 days, river Crouch Thames Medway and Swale, I would like to thank my crew for the weekend Janet and Teri who improved my knowledge of horse, to know end, and I in-return taught them about WW2…
Summer, sailing shenanigans around the East coast for the NFYC members. Intrepide explorers venturing North for the tranquility of Scotland or South to Devon & Cornwall and some even making it to The Scilly Isles. It’s been a busy July for the NFYC cruisers. We still have the Medway Cruise to come rounding off an…
The fleet was split with Flyer & Obsession spending the night at anchor in the River Roach and the rest of the fleet including Kokomo, Ithuna & Lunan deciding to leave North Fambridge at a misty 05.00am on Thursday morning. Unfortunately a few boats decided not to come at the last minute due to the…
The first Club cruise was last weekend with a mini cruise to Burnham and a meal in the Swallowtail Restaurant. 4 yachts left the moorings for a day sail on the river; the sun was out and just the right amount of wind to get them down to Burnham Marina. On mooring up Off Piste…
On Saturday the 14th May 2022 NFYC members attended the Annual Fitting out Super in the clubhouse. Feedback, via various media, was that a good time was had by all. Excellent food and an “interesting” fun raffle. An eclectic mix of donated prizes including mushy peas, biscuits and wine. The Winter Series prize giving was…
This is the key weekends where we set ourselves up for a successful year by cracking all those jobs we would rather not do when sailing is on offer! Sunday was the first of our two maintenance days and 19 club members turned out to clean and paint. Jenny, Lynette, Pauline and Margaret made lots…