Introducing your new 2023 CBYA Committee MEMBERS Three Committee positions were filled during the 2023 AGM on Wednesday 22nd March. John Mackney replaced Hugh Epsom as Chairman John is a Yachtmaster Instructor with 40+ years sailing experience, who has sailed…
Maurice Pilkington Award presented to retiring CBYA Chairman Maurice Pilkington donated his sextant to the CBYA in 2013, and it now presented as the CBYA Maurice Pilkington Award for long-standing, significant contribution to the club. It was kindly mounted by…
Available on Netflix The latest sailing film from the streaming giant, True Spirit, takes a look at the story of Jessica Watson one of the the most famous sailors from the late Noughties and early 2010’s phenomenon of multiple teenagers bidding to become the…
The March equinox – also called the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere – marks the beginning of the spring season in the Northern Hemisphere, and the autumn season in the Southern Hemisphere. What is it? The March equinox marks…
On March 1 and 2, Jupiter and Venus will appear side by side in the night sky in an event called a conjunction, which is visible without a telescope or binoculars. Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, and…