Open House
Open House was held at Conductive Education on Saturday 29th June. We had several aims: publicise Anita’s challenge; sell tickets for the Scones & Shanties concert; fundraise towards Anita’s £8,200 target for Cannon Hill House; try to attract Corporate Sponsorship towards Anita’s considerable costs. Where was Anita?? – Sailing (where else?), Level 2 again. Where…
Read MoreWe Won’t Go Hungry
The Blakemore Foundation has very kindly donated the “bits and pieces” for our promised cream tea. For our Scones & Shanties concert, thanks to their help, we WILL have cream, jam, butter, tea, coffee, milk, sugar, cold drinks and tissues. Thank you for helping to fill up our concert-goers! Now all we need is concert-goers!
Read MoreScones for Scones & Shanties Concert
Michael Hogan, of Sonja’s Bakehouse in Olton, will provide the scones for our Scones & Shanties fundraising event. Thank you very much, Michael.
Read MoreRYA Sailing with Spinnakers
At work one day one of my colleagues asked if I was interested in an RYA Sailing with Spinnakers course over a weekend at his local yacht club on the Thames. The first time I had ever sailed with a spinnaker was on my Level 2 course a few weeks earlier, and I think it’s…
Read MoreNo Regrets
Part of the crew allocation presentation, before we got told who our skipper and teammates are going to be, was a speech by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston in which he addressed the topic of not going through your life with any regrets. He said that as Clipper 13-14 crew members, we would not regret taking part.…
Read MoreRYA Sea Survival
We didn’t want to arrive late, so instead we arrived about an hour early, even before the course instructor, much to his surprise! This course was our RYA Sea Survival training, a one day course which forms a mandatory part of our race preparations and is completed as part of the Level 2 training. A…
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