Here are RSA newsletters and articles from the present to the earliest years of the Association.
| 2025 September newsletter (draft) | Upcoming Events and Racing update Latest blogs and web site news Ivor Jones (by Dave Hanchet) Simon Joel (by John Langrick Hope and Memory |
| 2025 February newsletter | Boatyard news 2024 Racing update Accounts 2024 Events 2025 Using Steering Systems that don’t require Power (John Apps) |
| 2024 September newsletter | Boatyard news 2023 Racing update One year on with Briar Rose East Coast Cruising Reg Seal |
| 2024 February newsletter | Boatyard news 2023 Racing and Cruising round-up The Black Shed (RIP) AGM detail and 2023 Accounts 2024 Events programme |
| 2023 September newsletter | RSA supports the Calais Rally (Brian Browne) Escape from the USA (Steve Noble) A trip to Clacton Air Show (Rob Ayre) Corinne Chronicles (Aleck Poole) Briar Rose in Orkney and Shetland (Shaun Hetherington) Briar Rose – the voyage home (Graham Pelling Havengore buoyage update |
| 2023 February newsletter | RSA celebrates 50 years Racing and Awards 2022 Ciel Bleu: Paglesham to Grenada (Jon Walmsley) Briar Rose Greek Odyssey (Shaun Hetherington) Admiral Lord Cochrane (John Apps) A short history of the RSA (John Langrick) |
| 2022 September newsletter | RSA East Coast Cruise (John Langrick) Hmm, where’s that oil coming from? (Brian Browne) SWAMPED! (John Apps) Ciel Bleu cruising upgrades (Jon Walmsley) |
| 2022 February newsletter | Special Electric Edition Arelia’s Jester Azores Challenge 2021 (John Apps) |
| 2021 September newsletter | The Long Tow (John Apps) Getting Ashore (safely)(Richard Bessey) Inspirational Navigators – Vasco de Gama (Shaun Hetherington) (Richard Bessey) Round Britain (Graham Pelling) 2021 East Coast Cruise (John Langrick) |
| 2021 February newsletter | If Napoleon had been a sailor (John Apps) Corrine Chronicles II (Aleck Poole) Restoring Pudmudle – again (Richard Bessey) Memories of Havengore Bridge |
| 2020 September newsletter | Circumnavigating Potton Island (Graham Pelling) BRIAR ROSE, Start of season (Shaun Hetherington) IMOTHES to Pyefleet 2020 (John Langrick) Love at first sight (Ermal Krutani) Round Britain Voyage 2007 (John Aplin) Hey Potton WASUP (Jon Walmsley) |
| 2020 February newsletter | Leros to Corfu (Shaun Hetherington) Carry on Corrine (Aleck Poole) First Aid for solo sailors (John Apps) |
| 2019 September newsletter | Lotus’summer cruise (Ken Wickham) Lucy’s trip to foreign lands (Nick Turner) Heligoland (John Apps) A typical day on the river(Jon Walmsley) |
| 2019 February newsletter | A New Yacht for the President (Mike Green) Havengore and Potton bridge plus RSPB Wallasea project (Ken Wickham) A new Yacht for Vince (Vince Lowen) Mystical (Steve Noble) |
| 2018 September newsletter | Bleeding diesel engines (Aleck Poole) The Gracilda Cup (Alice Noble) Winter Series on the Roach (Ken Wickham) Sheer Terror or absolute Splendour (John Apps) From the log of Ambition II (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2018 February newsletter | Ambition II: the big cruise (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) The Building of a Bermudan Sloop – the Halloween story (Rodney Choppin) Seagull Seagull (Aleck Poole) |
| 2017 September newsletter | Jessica’s log TRIUMPHANT and LADY ANNE 2017 (John and Sheila Quillam) An eventful 24 hours (Shaun Hetherington) My first trip up the East Coast (Ava Lowen age 18 months) |
| 2017 February newsletter | AMBITION II Scotland log part 1 (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Cat and the Bat (Jon Walmsley) Bornholm, Island in the Sun (John Apps) |
| 2016 September newsletter | Sambuca sailing log (Dave Pierce) AMBITION II Scotland log part 1 (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Two Cruises 2016 (John Langrick) The ad on the internet (Steve Noble) |
| 2016 February newsletter | Corrine to Lowestoft (Aleck Poole) Triumphant in Belize (John and Sheila Quillam) Ambition II (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2015 September newsletter | Sandy’s first East Coast Cruise (Rob Jennings) The Ray Sand Channel (Richard Bessey) Eider Keil Skagarrak or Limfjord (John Apps) CORINNE makes Pyefleet and contacts the East Coast Cruise (Aleck Poole) IMOTHES Sambucca Cup challenge (John Langrick) PGSC 2015 (David Hanchett) |
| 2015 February newsletter | The Most Extraordinary Place on Earth (John Apps) DESTAYE Journey across the North Sea to Flam (Shaun Hetherington) SEVERN – Rivers Class Yacht 1912 (Dave Pearce) |
| 2014 September newsletter | 2014 RSA Cruises (John Langrick) Around Wallasea in WINKS (Sambucca Challenge) (Richard Bessey) Plenty of Fish in the Sea (John Apps) Up the Eider River (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) A quick once round Holland with John, Peter and Clem aboard IMOTHES (Clem Freeman ) SPARKLE on the Roach (David Hanchet) PAKLJHAWA Ping! (Jon Walmsley ) Master of all he Surveys? (Anne Boulter) |
| 2014 February newsletter | CONTESSA OF WESTON’s Sambuca Challenge (Ian Hewett) Tony Hudson and SNIPE (John Langrick) PAKLJHAWA Goes East (Jon Walmsley) |
| 2013 September newsletter | REMIS VERLESQUE (RV) challenge and East Coast trip (Kay Callahan and Vince Lowen) PAKLJHAWA Goes West (Jon Walmsley) RAVENS Progress 2013 Cruises in IMOTHES (John Langrick) From Wight to Ushant (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2013 February newsletter | Pascua to Pape’ete via Pitcairn (John Apps) Hosteller’s 2013 Summer Cruise (Mark Smith) |
| 2012 September newsletter | The Cruise Part II (David Hanchet) Carry on Down Channel (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) CORINNE Makes The East Coast (Aleck Poole) RSA yacht to paradise – John Margarson’s account of the Jester Azores race 2012 |
| 2012 February newsletter | Some history (John Langrick) Parrot in Panama (John Apps) It’s a Dream (Peter Watson) Dinghy cruising at the Semaine du Golfe Part 1 (Gerald Turner) |
| 2011 September newsletter | Not calling all ships Not the PSGC Summer Cruise (David Hanchet) Dom’s first trip in SWANTI (Dominic Bolengaro) SUSIE’s‘Weekend’ Trip (Gerald Turner) IMOTHES’ Summer Cruise (John Langrick and George Phillips) Out and about in Pickled Pajamas (Jon Walmsley) |
| 2011 February newsletter | Steak and Oysters (Anne Boulter) A Warram Tiki catamaran (Jon Walmsley) Restoring Susie (Gerald Turner) Jester Challenge (John Apps) Around again with Destaye (Shaun Hetherington) |
| 2010 September newsletter | Sea Jay’s log (Christopher Noble) The Gentleman’s Cruise (David Hanchet) Philomelle in Sweden (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2010 February newsletter | Triumphant in Guatemala (Sheila and John Quillam) Folkboat Rodingen (Mary Hare) Philomelle in Denmark (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2009 September newsletter | Not the Atlantic again… (John Apps) Imothes in France (John Langrick) Foreign food (Richard Bessey) Pyefleet and beyond (Alec Pool) Tales from the river (Mark and Chrissie Flitter) |
| 2009 February newsletter | Commissioning Monndancer (Brian brown) Update from South America (John and Sheila Quillam) Return of Destaye via the Scillies (John Langrick) |
| 2008 September newsletter | Jester Challenge to the Azores (John Apps) Imothes in France (John Langrick) Philomelle in France (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2008 February newsletter | A brief visit to Sydney (Richard Bessey) Square Rig cruise (Ken Wickham) News from Triumphant (John and Sheila Quillam) Log extracts from Triumphant (John and Sheila Quillam) |
| 2007 September newsletter | Three men in a boat (John Langrick) Dawn raid (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Atlantic double cross (John Apps) Ibiza to Croatia (Jon Walmsley) |
| 2007 February newsletter | From London to Paris River (James & Shaun Hetherington) Nancy of the yawl Philo (anon) Dick Churn (obituary) Norwegian Log (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2006 September newsletter | The first Mudcatcher’s Cup (Richard Bessey) When the storm forms around you (John Apps) Gemini, twice to Pin Mill (Ken Wickham) Exploring Barling Creek (Steve Dowding) Triumphant’s progress (John and Sheils Quillam) |
| 2006 February newsletter | A day out on the water (Shaun Heatherington) So you think you are ready for a West to East Atlantic Crossing? (John Apps) Scilly to Alderney (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Holiday of a lifetime? (John Langrick & family) |
| 2005 September newsletter | Restoration of Boom Boat Dally Brandy Hole series (Steve Dowding) To the Scillies (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Benfleet rally – a ditch crawlers guide (John Langrick) I don’t like brussels sprouts either (John Walmsley on an Atlantic crossing) |
| 2005 February newsletter | The Beacons (Richard Bessey) Tiny Mite (John Whittingham) A Partner’s lot is not a happy one (poem by Anne Boulter) From the Roach to Australia – the eay way (John Langrick) |
| 2004 September newsletter | The Jo(h)ns’ top ten sailing tips (one of the Jo(h)ns) My first East Coast cruise (Shaun and Ben Hetherington) Kingsley Varcoe 1913-2004 Follow that ship! (Richard Bessey) New decks for Philomelle (Richard Bessey) Paglesham Regatta 1974 |
| 2004 February newsletter | Paglesham to St Peterberg (and back) (Jon Walmsley) Laying up in Talinn (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) To Maldon with the OGA (John Langrick) A quick trip to France (John Apps) Triumphant voyage update from Madiera (John and Sheila Quillam) |
| 2003 September newsletter | Paglesham Yacht Race (John Perry) Fambridge Rally (John Langrick) East Coast Cruie (John Langrick) Fahrting rund der Ost See (John Ap The journey to Hel (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) |
| 2003 February newsletter | Delivering Philomelle (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Baltic or Bust (John Walmsley) Professor Peter Quillam OBE (1915-2003) |
| 2002 September newsletter | HMS Beagle (Rodney Choppin) Freisian cruise (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) Brilliant bash for British Boats in the blue and brown Baltic and Holland (John Apps) Three Tiny Mites (Richard Bessey) |
| 2002 February newsletter | Don McDowell Trophy (John Langrick and Pat McDowell) A Floating Home (book review by Ivor Jones) |
| 2001 September newsletter | Norman Bishop (Paul Bishop) To Try and Try Again (Anne Boulter) RSA Holland Cruise (John Langrick) |
| 2001 February newsletter | Live-a-board in the Mediterranean (Dan O’Herlihy) A sad farewell to Don McDowell A Passage (Bill Christie) A day-trip to Gunfleet Lighthouse (Richard Bessey) |
| 2000 September newsletter | Norman Whibley – the Quiet Man (Reg Seal) Going Dutch (Richard Bessey and Justine Selman) OGA East Coast Rally (John Langrick) Build me straight and strong O worthy Master (Rodney Choppin) |
| 2000 February newsletter | Close Encounter (John Walmsley) Normandy and back (Dai Williams and Caroline Gibb) Laying in your bunk dreaming (Rogues yarn) |
| 1999 September newsletter | Lady Hamilton’s trip to the sun (Dennis Haggerty) The Everlasting One-Design (Caroline Gibb) Winks on the Fal (Richard Bessey) Ditch Crawling (John Langrick) |
| 1999 February newsletter | Triumphant Goes West (John and Sheila Quillam) A Freight to Maldon (Ron Watts) Lady Hamilton is heading for the Sun (Dennis Haggerty) First Time Foreign (Jon Walmsley) |
| 1998 September newsletter | Are you a tall ship? (Ron Watts) Round and Round – Part 2 (Caroline Gibb and Dai Williams) Creek Crawling? (John Langrick) |
| 1998 February newsletter | To Shotley and Ipswich and back (Alan Holland) Round and Round – Part 1 (Caroline Gibb and Dai Williams) |
| 1997 September newsletter | Two summer cruises (Richard Bessey) RSA and Hostellers SC Pyefleet August bank holiday weekend (Steve Dowding) My first circumnavigation of the Isle of Sheppey (John Langrick) From Dinghy to Cruiser and back again! (Roger Frith) |
| 1997 February newsletter | One Man and His Boats: A tribute to Jack Walmsley (Jon Walmsley) Launch of the Gracilda (from Southend Standard, 1934) Home to N51.35.31, E00.48.41 (Dai Williams and Caroline Gibb) Swanti’s travels (John Langrick) |
| 1996 September newsletter | Farewell Len Choppin Hostellers Sailing Club Nearly Won the first Dinghy race! For the love of boats (John Langrick) Oops Ruth (John Langrick) |
| 1996 February newsletter | The Last Race (archive 1961) The Years Roll By (Ron Watts) En route to Les Sables D’Olonne (Caroline Gibb and Dai Williams) To Maldon this time! (John Langrick) |
| 1996 | Tony Hudson’s memories of Snipe in the 1940s Havengore: a sceptic’s guide (Dennis Haggerty) |
| 1995 | Tess in France part 1 (Dai Williams and Caroline Gibb) Tess in France part 2 A trip to Faversham with Swanti (John Langrick) |
| 1975 August newsletter | About the formation of the Crouch Harbour Authority |
| 1974 July newsletter | Crouch Harbour Authotity update Paglesham Regatta notice |
| 1974 February newsletter | Newsletter No 1. |
| 1973 | Letter to yachtsmen – an invitation to join the newly formed RSA A response to the proposed Maplin airport (part 1 and part 2) |
