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Messing about on the River Medway
It was at Foys, the restaurant at the Flying Squadron, where us Middle Harbour Yacht Club Cruisers had our annual Long Lunch, where I read a little bit of history about the club on one of the plaques on the wall. Strange that it couldn’t be had at our own club.It seems Mark Foy, founder…
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Macquarie Lighthouse
by Jeremy Clark, S/V Kai Rani Primitive open fire signals apparently sufficed the early Sydney settlement for its first 26 years . In November 1814, however, the energetic Governor Lachlan Macquarie * requested the services of architect Frances Greenaway (convict). Greenaway suggested that a revolving light should be erected. At either south or North Head…
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Plimsoll Mark
by Jeremy Clark, S/V Kai Rani The Plimsoll Mark is painted on the side of British Merchant Ships to indicate the draught levels to which a ship may be loaded under various conditions The Plimsoll Mark shows six loading levels, those for: This mark is accompanied by another consisting of a circle bisected by a…
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Travels with the Attersalls
Gill telling the tales of many adventures on the seas over the years together with Glynne
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Some Memories over 74 years of “Sailing”, part 1
By Bill Humel. A few of my Memories Articles appeared in the Compass Rose in 2019 and in years before, so I will try to be brief on what has appeared previously. My first nautical experience was paddling an old mattress with a paling on North Curl Curl Lagoon just after World War 2. My…
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A brush with the Law
By Martin Colebrook. My Dad was a policeman. He was very strict. I grew up in a little village in the midst of farming land in Kent, UK. He was the village bobby and so I had to be a good boy at all times, which I was but was always being told off for…
