Blackwater Sailing Club are pleased to continue to host the Cruising Association Essex Saturday evening winter talks. Supper is at 7pm and the talk begins at 8pm.

Everyone is welcome. CA & BSC members pay £15 for the talk and two course meal or £3 for the talk only. Guests pay £17 for the talk and meal or £5 for the talk only.

Tonight's talk is 'Stress Free Sailing'

Duncan Wells is an RYA instructor and features writer for Yachting Monthly. He specialises in developing and teaching shorthanded solutions for the everyday tasks of sailing couples including:

• getting off and then back onto the dock in a variety of wind and tide configurations,
  
• sail setting and reefing,
  
• picking up mooring buoys
  
• anchoring
  
• sailing in heavy weather and
  
• new techniques for man overboard retrieval
  

This talk will be especially useful for those new to cruising but we hope everyone will learn a thing or two.

For more information or to book tickets online, please visit the CA website CA Events book online . BSC members may also book tickets by adding their names to the sign-up sheet at the club.