Guildford Coastal Cruising Club

Winter Talks

The 2025-6 Winter Programme will be launched on 14th October.

A printable version of the Winter Programme is available here Winter Programme 2025-6.pdf

It's going to be a BIG Programme, with 7 Speakers, of which 2 are Headliners (including Tom Cunliffe), 3 Workshops, and 9 Social Events!!

Talks for the 2025-6 season will be held, as usual, in the Papercourt Clubhouse, and we encourage all Members to meet there. For reasons of distance, or health, we will also offer a Zoom facility over the internet for Guest Speakers evenings. Workshops and some Social Events are not suitable for Zoom.

Visitors are welcome to all our Talks (Please contact the Membership Secretary for access). We ask only a modest £5 contribution towards our costs (no Registration needed) - except for Headline Speaker talks which are currently £10, and will require Registration.

Click on the   Register   button for Talks requiring Registration.

Click for Summer Rallies or Social Events or choose from the tabs above.

  • Launch of the 2025-6 Winter Programme & Welcome to New Members

    • 14 Oct 2025
    • 20:00 - 22:00
    • Papercourt
    Event - Launch of the 2025-6 Winter Programme and Welcome to New Members

    Host: Paul Armstrong

    New Members will be personally invited to join us at the Papercourt Clubhouse, where our Commodore and the Committee will be on hand to welcome you and make introductions to other Members. Any Non-Members interested to know more about our Club are also very welcome to attend, and find out what a happy bunch of sailors and crew we are!

    So, come along, come along - Paul will then be providing all details of the full 2025-6 Winter Programme, with a Presentation on the Talks, Workshops and Social Events planned for the dark Winter months ahead. The presentation itself will start at 20:30. 

    This is an excellent Social evening to catch up with friends and reminisce about this past summer's Rallies, the Summer Cruise and your sailing season. The end-result of this evening is to enable you to put dates into your diaries for the Winter Tuesday nights ahead, so come along, enjoy a drink and have a natter with others.
    • This talk will be live in the Clubhouse, and we encourage Members to attend and catch up with friends.  
    • It will also be broadcast on Zoom. The link to connect to Zoom will be sent by separate email to Members nearer the date. Non Members who wish to participate via Zoom should contact the Membership Secretary by using using membership@guildfordsailing.org to receive a link.

    We look forward to seeing you!

    Organiser: Paul Armstrong, Vice Commodore

    Show details

Past events

22 Jul 2025 Workshop - Sailability at Papercourt
15 Apr 2025 Workshop - Life-jacket Servicing
01 Apr 2025 Talk - Platforms, Pirates and Pornography - Andy Beharrell
11 Mar 2025 Talk - Forestry England & Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation - White-tailed Sea Eagles Project - Imogen Lloyd
25 Feb 2025 Talk - Racing Life in the Roaring Forties and Round the Horn - Ian Worley
11 Feb 2025 Talk - Living Through the Gale - Tom Cunliffe
04 Feb 2025 Workshop - Nightsailing
28 Jan 2025 Talk - Waves - Dr Simon Boxall
21 Jan 2025 Talk - Celebrating 10 Years of Summer Cruises - Gareth David
08 Dec 2024 RYA First Aid Course
03 Dec 2024 Talk - Invaders, Explorers and Shipbuilders - Jeremy Batch
26 Nov 2024 An Evening With ..... Your Committee
05 Nov 2024 Talk - From Day-Skipper to Transatlantic Racer - Kate Cope
29 Oct 2024 Workshop - Chartering. UK, Mediterranean and Caribbean
22 Oct 2024 Talk - Confessions of a Cruising Correspondent - Dick Durham
15 Oct 2024 Event - Launch of the 2024-5 Winter Programme and a Welcome to New and Prospective Members evening
02 Apr 2024 Skipper Briefing on the Summer Cruise 2024
12 Mar 2024 Skipper & Stowaway Session for the May Day-Sail Weekend
27 Feb 2024 Talk - Ropes and Rigging - What can possibly go Wrong? - Spencer Rigging
20 Feb 2024 Workshop - "How did that Happen??"
06 Feb 2024 Talk - Ancient and Modern Myths of the Oceans - Dr Simon Boxall
23 Jan 2024 Talk - Maritime Archaeological Trust - Jasmine Noble-Shelley
19 Dec 2023 Outline Planning Session for the 2024 Summer Cruise
05 Dec 2023 Talk - Sailing in a Changing Climate - Steve Everett
28 Nov 2023 Talk - Sailing Accidents and Investigations - the work of the MAIB - Roger Brydges
14 Nov 2023 Workshop - Downwind Sailing
24 Oct 2023 Talk - The Story of Navigation BC 2000 to AD Now - Jeremy Batch
10 Oct 2023 Event - Launch of the Winter Programme and a Welcome to New and prospective Members evening
14 Mar 2023 Portsmouth - Harlots, Dung and Glory! Part 4 - Andrew Negus
28 Feb 2023 Sailing the Jester Challenges - George Arnison
07 Feb 2023 Junk Rig Sailing - James Gray
24 Jan 2023 Sailing to Jan Mayen Island and Climbing Beerenberg - Alasdair Flint
06 Dec 2022 Dinghy Cruising - Roger Barnes
22 Nov 2022 Portsmouth - Harlots, Dung and Glory! Part 3 - Andrew Negus
25 Oct 2022 Sailing the Scottish West Coast - Paul Armstrong - GCCC
18 Oct 2022 Workshop - Alternative Sources for Power on Boats
11 Oct 2022 Launch of Winter Programme & Welcome to New Members evening
15 Mar 2022 Winter Talk : Andrew Negus - Portsmouth Part 2; Harlots, dung and glory!
22 Feb 2022 Winter Talk : - Gaffers past, present and future – Sue Pennison
08 Feb 2022 Winter Talk : - Preparing for and Sailing the ARC - Jeremy Wyatt
25 Jan 2022 Winter Talk : End-of-life boats; how to decide if yours is a possibility and then what happens
07 Dec 2021 Winter Talk : - Can we decarbonise our boating? – Nigel Calder
23 Nov 2021 Winter Talk : Malcolm Denham (Denny) - Golfe du Morbihan
16 Nov 2021 Club Workshop : - Electronic Navigation Systems and Equipment - now on zoom as well
26 Oct 2021 Winter Talk : Eric Huke - Secrets of the Mary Rose
12 Oct 2021 Launch of Winter Programme - & Welcome to New Members evening
16 Mar 2021 Winter Talk – Race to Scotland
02 Mar 2021 Winter Talk – Scaramouche Sailing Trust
09 Feb 2021 Winter Talk - Speed Sailing – Colin Palmer
26 Jan 2021 Winter Talk - Confidence after Cancer – The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust
01 Dec 2020 Winter Talk - Wharram Catamarans
24 Nov 2020 Winter Talk - The Sea Takes No Prisoners
27 Oct 2020 Winter Talk - Malin Head to Mizzen Head, along the Wild Atlantic Way in Robinetta
17 Mar 2020 Winter Talk - The Sea Takes No Prisoners - CANCELLED
03 Mar 2020 Winter Talk - Turn to Starboard
11 Feb 2020 Winter Talk - Passion, Boats & Poverty
28 Jan 2020 Winter Talk - Poo to Power
03 Dec 2019 Winter Talk - Charting the Uncharted in the UK's Yachting Paradise
26 Nov 2019 Winter Talk - Sailing Weather
29 Oct 2019 Winter Talk - History of Portsmouth
12 Mar 2019 'Send us Some Women'
26 Feb 2019 The Coastal Geography , Flora and Fauna of Iceland
12 Feb 2019 'Donald Campbell' - Talk by Phil Holt
29 Jan 2019 'Man is not Lost' - Talk by Tom Cunliffe
04 Dec 2018 Jubilee Sailing Trust – Songs of the Seas
02 Dec 2018 RYA First Aid Course
20 Nov 2018 Voyage of The Liberdade
30 Oct 2018 Trinity House and more......
27 Mar 2018 Birds of the Solent
13 Mar 2018 Coastwatch
18 Feb 2018 RYA First Aid Course
30 Jan 2018 "Stress Free Sailing and MOB"
16 Jan 2018 "The Maiden Factor"
07 Jan 2018 Visit to HMCG SAR (Search and Rescue) Helicopter Unit
05 Dec 2017 "Organising Finances on a Boat"
21 Nov 2017 In the Footsteps of Shackleton
19 Nov 2017 RYA First Aid Course
07 Nov 2017 "Scapa Flow - Salvaging the German Navy"
24 Oct 2017 Bembridge Harbour Past, Present and Future.
14 Mar 2017 Three Great Maritime Explorers
14 Feb 2017 Talk - 'Around London in a small dinghy'
31 Jan 2017 Talk by the RYA on their services for yacht sailors
17 Jan 2017 Talk - All about Sails
13 Dec 2016 Solent in the 1930's & ‘70's
22 Nov 2016 GRP Yacht Construction
08 Nov 2016 Yacht Surveys by Guy Nicholls
01 Nov 2016 Captain McNaught & Trinity House
10 Nov 2015 Casting Off - Emma Bamford, Deputy Editor of Sailing Today
24 Feb 2015 Briefing on 2015 Summer Cruise
17 Feb 2015 An evening with Richard Nicolson
14 Oct 2014 New Members Night
06 May 2014 2nd Briefing on Summer Cruise
08 Apr 2014 New Members Night
18 Mar 2014 Ropes and Splicing
11 Mar 2014 Briefing on summer cruise
04 Mar 2014 Photography
18 Feb 2014 Atlantic Adventure with the ARC
04 Feb 2014 Marine Accident Investigation Branch
21 Jan 2014 Chatham Dockyard
17 Dec 2013 Commodore's Punch Party
10 Dec 2013 Sailing the Global Challenge - Round the World 2004-05
26 Nov 2013 40 Years of Navigating, Positioning and Communications underwater
12 Nov 2013 Preparing My Entry for the Fastnet 2013
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