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Reports of Adventures and Events 

20th June 2013, A Midsummer Adventure with Stedfast & Kicks

2012 Shrub Planting - Saturday December 1st

Isle of Man Race May 2011 - almost finished?

Isle of Man Race May 2010

2009  The Collins Stewart 54th Round the Island Race - Sunday 3rd May

2009 Reports of Dinghy Racing - Click on the event to read the report

2008 Reports of Dinghy Racing - Click on the event to read the report, sadly not all events are reported

2006 March Working Party - lots of pictures mostly Saturday. The working party was over the weekend of 25th/26th March

2005 A Tall Ships Adventure - " ...  On 15th July 2005 Paul and I set off by plane, train, boat and taxi to Cherbourg to get to the boat. We arrived to find a dockyard full of enormous ships and bemused French people. ... " - plus some pictures of Anne dinghy sailing

2005 Mersey River Festival - lots of pictures   Tuesday 31st May to Saturday 18th June 2005 - this is just a lot of pictures and a few words, not actually about the festival but just the boats that went and returned. Please, if you have anything to contribute to improve this archive please get in touch Michael Swarbrick

2005 Single-Handed Open Meeting - lots of pictures    Saturday 11th June 2005. We arrived at lunch time and found several visitors, some with their boats already rigged. The first race was at 1345 hours so there was plenty of time for more boats to turn up. The sun was shining and the wind was easterly force 3 gusting 4, ideal strength but we'd have preferred a westerly - later on we'd have been delighted for the wind to have stayed as it was. Snowhill Maiden was manoeuvring down the slipway on the winch ready for the incoming tide.

2005 Glasson Week - lots of pictures In the days before cheap air travel and holidays in almost guaranteed sunshine Glasson's sailors used to spend the Spring Bank Holiday week at the club in tents, camper vans and small cruisers, e.g. Lysanders, and there was racing and events every day with entertainment in the evenings provided by themselves. So that explains the 'Subject' and I hope you will forgive a bit of nostalgia.

2005 February Working Party - lots of pictures of Saturday only. The working party was over the weekend of 26th/27th February

2004 Dinghy Reports

2004 Regatta - August 28th, 29th & 30th - report & pictures

2004 Family Cruise to North Wales

2004 Mersey River Festival      The day dawned in my case by the very rare and historic sound of an alarm clock and then just on 0900 hours we left the dock en route for the Mersey along with three other Glasson boats. ... Stories from Dennis Marsden & Justin Denham

2004 A Round Trip to France       This is the story of Tom & Irene Riley's epic voyage to France, along the canals and Back to Glasson

2004 The Recovery of Kerry Girl     It was Saturday night in early February, during a spell of spring tides, and very WINDY! The anemometer at Glasson Sailing Club recorded 60 knot winds from the west. ......... Have you ever seen a 26ft yacht in the middle of a several hundred acre 'field'? ......

2003 Toggenberg Sails North    A Ripping Yarn of Adventure on the High Seas from the pen of John Holt, Master Chronicler   .......

2003 Family Cruise to North Wales

2003 One Week Last Summer - 2003 Alan Round's account of bringing his new boat home to Glasson

2003 Kirkcudbright Autumn 2003

2003 Greater Manchester Challenge Daniel Johnson's voyage in 2003

2002 Walton-on-Naze to Glasson The Rileys journey home

2001 a few days on the Lancaster Canal

Ireland 2001 - May Day week 2001

Millennium Bridge Race 2001 The first Millennium Bridge Race, not the first time we've raced to Lancaster