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In issue number 213:

• 2012 Rallies
• Sailing in Denmark, Part III
• Mersey Daysail: A Tale of Tides
• Cruising from Loch Etive in a Wayfarer
• SEAFLY - A Potential Cruiser?
• Roger Barnes on the Wild Side
• TINKERBELLE
• Southport Lifeboat Disaster

Cover photograph: South Coast members on a winter daysail, January 28, 2012, Itchenor to His Lordship's Pool, Mengham Rythe, Hayling Island.

• le rat 'dEau's First Cruise
• Sailing in Denmark, Part II
• Clipper Dinghy
• Contact Cruising on the New England & Fundy Coasts
• Sailing Canoe Cruises
• Sailing Canoes on the South Coast
• A Tale of Two Derricks
• Last 2011 Rallies

Bassenthwaite Lake, where the North West Group of the DCA will be cruising in June 2012. Read on to download the full listing of DCA rallies as at 2 March 2012. Update 10 April: more information on the Bassenthwaite Rally here.

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Exploring the saltings of the Dwyryd estuary

Updated 1 March 2012. Please contact the rally coordinator for information in advance if you plan to attend. For general queries contact NW regional secretary John Hughes 0151 632 0178, northwest@dinghycruising.org.uk. Tide times are BST.

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This year's AGM will be help at Rudyard Lake on Saturday March 24, and will include a lecture by Tom Cunliffe.

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In issue number 212:

• Breakaway to France
• Cobnor Week
• Orkney Rally
• Farnes Rally
• In the Good Old Days Pt III
• Small Boats on The Haven
• La Route du Sable
• Sailing in Denmark Pt I
• On the River Tees
• (Not) Sailing in the Broads

In issue number 212:

• Just What is a Cruising Dinghy?
• 19 Years Cruising in an Enterprise
• the Good Old Days Pt II
• Gippsland Lakes Cruise
• Swallow
• Broads Cruise
• Charles Stock Swallows the Anchor
• Overnight in SCAMP – well below Zero 

Sat 4th Feb 2012, Northwest planning meeting, Elton Sailing Club, Bury, Lancashire. This is partly a planning meeting and partly a social event. Please come and have your say and get to know people. 

10.30 tea/coffee for 11.00 start; 13.00 buffet lunch; 14.00 speaker, Mike Harrington on Sailing in the Arctic; afternoon tea/coffee, £12.

John Hughes would very much appreciate having an idea of numbers a week in advance. Please phone 0151 632 0178 or email northwest@dinghycruising.org.uk.

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