Logs of dinghy cruises by individual HSC members (as opposed to club cruises).  Do please send your contributions to the website editor.

Harold Mann was a longstanding member to the HSC who died in October 2004. I felt that the articles which Harold wrote many years ago for our modest club  newsletter deserved a wider audience, so see here for Harold's experiences during the 1950s, working on commercial small ships and sailing barges on the East Coast of the UK. Following these experiences Harold continued a career in the Merchant Navy and in later years worked on the sludge boats which carried waste from London sewage works to be dumped well out in the southern end of the North Sea.

Dinghy cruising has always been one of the main activities of the HSC, so I think it is justifiable to include these 'how to do it' notes.

This section records our experiences when we have attended sailing festivals such as Semaine du Golfe, held biennially in Brittany and Seafair held biennially in Wales.

These sailing festivals are not competitive sailing events, rather they are an opportunity for sailors to socialise and to go sailing in company and they also provide a bit of a spectacle for land based tourists, which I think is the reason that they sometimes get a some financial support from local authorities.