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What actually is dinghy cruising? : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. What actually is dinghy cruising? Dinghy cruising is the use of sailing dinghies for purposes other than racing. Which can be anything from coastal sailing to pottering in a sheltered lake. Here are some perspectives on what dinghy cruising means to different people. I have just spent an interesting three days at Beale Park talking to people about dinghy cruising when they visited our pontoon. ‘What is dinghy cruising? Dispels some myths in Nowhere Near The Edge of Fear. On a clear...
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Starting Dinghy Cruising : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. People take up dinghy cruising at all ages and with a wide variety of prior sailing experience. From ocean crossing in yachts to absolutely none. For some it's a gentle progression from one sort of sailing to another - for others new skills have to be learned, as they switch from yachts to smaller boats, from racing to cruising or from inland lakes to tidal waters. The skills and experience. Adult beginners' courses: Levels 1, 2 and 3. When considering courses, take account not jus...
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Journal : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. Is the Association's quarterly journal. It has been published continuously since 1955 and is available only to members. Designed and edited to a professional standard with 60 to 64 A4 pages, most in full colour,. Provides a wealth of inspiration and practical advice. A CD of the first 50 years of the journal is available to members at a price of 10, postage paid. Details in the journal sent to all members. A sample copy of the journal is available to download here. Selway Fisher's ...
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About : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. The aims of the Dinghy Cruising Association are to. Promote the use of sailing dinghies for purposes other than racing. Support the sharing of information arising from this in the Journal and via the web. Encourage the development of regional groups to organise rallies where members may meet and sail together. Assist beginners to take up dinghy cruising. Based in the UK, the DCA has members worldwide, and operates under these Rules. Read about the origins of the DCA. Two awards are...
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DCA Talk : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. DCA Talk is an email discussion list for members to discuss everything and anything dinghy-cruising. During the online sign up process for joining this site, you are invited to 'check' the box to join the email list. If you have already joined this site, you can join (or leave) the list:. If necessary, click 'Sign In' below the green 'Join Group' button at the botom of the right hand column;. Once you are signed in. Scroll down the page that opens, to 'List Memberships';. Is the As...
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Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. Dinghy Cruising means different things to different people. Finding launching tricky in Poland. DCA member no 4, Frank Dye. Famously sailed from Scotland to Norway. And Iceland in his Wayfarer dinghy - and along the east coast of North America. He described the latter voyage in his book. Sailing to the Edge of Fear. At the jetty on Ullswater. But there are the hundreds of us. Who take out a small boat for a day sail. Cruising in company at Cobnor. While in the middle of the spectrum.
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Join the DCA : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. The Dinghy Cruising Association is the friendly club with a sense of adventure. For sailors and families who use boats for more than just racing. Five regional groups with busy sailing and social programmes. Vast library - books plus articles back to 1955 - on CD too. Technical advice freely available. Dinghy Cruising journal - 60 page colour quarterly. Membership is 24 (for UK and overseas) per year payable by cheque. Should download the membership form in either:.
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Rallies : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
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Create your own group. Rallies are held across the UK and overseas. They range from day sails and short camp cruises in sheltered waters, to coastal expeditions over a couple of weeks. Holy Island off the Northumbrian coast is the setting for a longstanding,. And potentially challenging, rally. Details of forthcoming rallies are incuded in the Dinghy Cruising journal sent to all members and via the forum. In a typical year, UK rallies may be held at the following dates and places. East Head, Itchenor.
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About : Dinghy Cruising Association : GroupSpaces
http://www.talk.dinghycruising.org.uk/pages/about-the-dca
Create your own group. The aims of the Dinghy Cruising Association are to. Promote the use of sailing dinghies for purposes other than racing. Support the sharing of information arising from this in the Journal and via the web. Encourage the development of regional groups to organise rallies where members may meet and sail together. Assist beginners to take up dinghy cruising. Based in the UK, the DCA has members worldwide, and operates under these Rules. Read about the origins of the DCA. Two awards are...
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