Sometimes, even in the winter, it is sunny in London. The Thames has large tides and strong currents and is a great place to do boat handling training courses. After this course, we’ve got 6 more boat handlers in the…

What better way to spend a Sunday than on a boat cruising down the Thames Estuary to Canvey Island? After a day of navigation theory in the classroom, we boarded Londinium 1, the City of London Maritime Volunteer Service’s motor…

We’ve been busy running boat handling courses on the Thames.  4 courses so far this winter (each with 2 boats) have seen Clidive members travelling through the Thames Barrier… up through Tower Bridge… … planning passages and learning to drive…

Today we stopped for lunch at the outdoor centre on Frioul. It’s like the Mountbatten Centre in Plymouth, save that it has good food and the sun shines. We enjoyed an excellent moules frites, a couple of bottles of wine,…