The Thames Estuary is amongst the more complex waters for yachtsmen and women to navigate in the UK. Despite the sandbanks, narrow channels, swatchways, tides and shipping, it can and is crossed easily, in comfort and with interest. None of your featureless channel waters here! The book contains 32 suggested routes between landfall waypoints off [...]

WCC member and former Army Air Corps Pilot Paul Strugnell has written a book about his experiences. There are many anecdotes in Paul’s self-published 120-page memoir “Hawkeye – The Story of an Army Pilot”, which covers the period from 1970 to 1984. It chronicles the places he went to, the missions he was involved in, [...]

Our press officer, Angela Lawrence, has recently published her first novel, ‘Rumour’. It is set in Suffolk during the First World War and is based on a true story. It tells the story of a village schoolmaster and his wife who become caught up in a spy scandal at the start of the war, simply [...]

Club Member Judy Clements recounts in her book how living aboard ‘Fram’ might have been testing, frightening and exhilarating – but it was never mundane.

Juliet Dearlove works in the City as company secretary of a FTSE250 Investment Trust and lives in Easton. She qualified as a solicitor in 1993 and worked in London for 12 years. However, in 2005 she resigned her job, the family house was sold, the children withdrawn from school (then aged six and eight) and [...]