Summer Cruise, 2024: updated race results & video
The East Coast Summer Cruise is a mixture of racing, cruising and socialising. This post includes a short video providing… Read More »Summer Cruise, 2024: updated race results & video
Young Gaffer
A Young Gaffer in the OGA is someone under 35! These posts are about, or by an East Coast Young Gaffer . . . your Editor looks forward to receiving more ‘Young Gaffer’ reports!
Young Gaffers racing at S&A: 8 June 2024
Saturday, 8 June dawned suitably cloudy for an East Coast event, when over 20 boats turned out to compete for… Read More »Young Gaffers racing at S&A: 8 June 2024
S&A memories and sailing a Gaffling
As the Swallows and Amazons weekend celebrated 25 years 7 – 9 June, 2024 we hear from Maddy Masters, a… Read More »S&A memories and sailing a Gaffling
25th Anniversary S&A results: June 2024
The annual ‘Swallows and Amazons’ event organised by the East Coast OGA began in 1989 when East Coast stalwarts the… Read More »25th Anniversary S&A results: June 2024
A picnic in the Dardanelles
Sarah Adie brings us an account of where 15 boats went on Sunday 9 June during the OGA Swallows &… Read More »A picnic in the Dardanelles
East Coast featured boat: ‘Dirty Girty’
Our featured boat for March is another boat designed and built by East Coast Gaffer Bob Berk, ‘Dirty Girty’. Bob… Read More »East Coast featured boat: ‘Dirty Girty’
Rebuilding Mersey Rivers Class ‘Deva’
For those of you wondering what’s happened to ‘Deva’ recently, Tom Curtis brings us an update from the boatshed. ‘Deva’… Read More »Rebuilding Mersey Rivers Class ‘Deva’
Report on the OGA AGM: Liverpool, January 2024
East Coast Area Secretary, Pete ‘the knife’ Elliston provides a report from the Association AGM held in Liverpool on 13… Read More »Report on the OGA AGM: Liverpool, January 2024
Swallows and Amazons: 3 – 4, June 2023
On a fine Friday afternoon, reminiscent of the idyllic days of Swallows and Amazons, the fleet gathered at Walton and… Read More »Swallows and Amazons: 3 – 4, June 2023