Colin Van Geffen is an established and well-known artist and public speaker who lives and works in the New Forest. He is a local historian and aviation enthusiast. He researches and writes all of his presentations and presentation of the facts is his priority.   Colin’s talk  The Flying Boats of Southampton (Ships of the Sky) recalls the Golden Years of the commercial flying boat era, when Southampton and its Empire flying boats led the world. From the beginnings in 1913 to the swan song in the 50’s and later. The talk begins at 7pm followed by supper - Cost £15 Please book with clubhousemanager@rsyc.org.uk  

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Featuring Mike Golding. Mike is an Honorary Life Member of the RSYC. He is the first yachtsman to sail solo non-stop round the world in both directions and complete five circumnavigations The Rescue of Alex Thomson on the Velux 5 Oceans Race 2006/7 Alex Thomson ( Hugo Boss) and Mike Golding (Ecover) were two of the three entries – the other being one rather notable Sir Robin Knox Johnson ( Saga) in the V5O solo race around the world from Bilbao to Bilbao with just two stops in Fremantle and Norfolk USA. After a tough start in storm force conditions one by one each of the Brits were forced to stop and after restarting in Spain. Thompson and Golding went in hot pursuit of Bernard Stamm who had gained a healthy early race lead.  Despite both having vastly differing strategies both plunged deep into the Southern Ocean racing each other for the lead separated by just a few miles driven forward by a vast Southern Ocean storm. Disaster struck and Hugo Boss was left floundering taking on vast amounts of water as well as the rapidly approaching storm front. With no ships able to reach Alex,  Mike who was 90 […]