Sailing
This year, ‘Cachalot’ joined more than 30 boats and over 55 people for the East Coast OGA Summer Cruise with the planned start for the Cruise in the River Ore being Sunday 27 July, 2025.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2025”
History
On Sunday 18 May, ‘Cachalot’ arrived in Ramsgate to join the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships as they gather for the 85th Anniversary Return to Dunkirk this week.
Read more “ADLS fleet gathers in Ramsgate”
Sailing
Steve spent a final week making sure ‘Cachalot’ was ready for her passage to Dunkirk with the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships before setting off from the Tidemill Yacht Harbour on Friday 16 May, 2025.
Read more “Depart Woodbridge for ADLS Return”
Sailing
Catch up with what we did on the OGA Summer Cruise, 2024. There are also two posts telling the whole story in words and pictures.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2024: the movie”
Sailing
The second part of the Summer Cruise involved a couple of days exploring Walton-on-the Naze followed by a night at Stone Point, the Pennyhole Bay Race and a couple of days in the River Orwell. Find out what we did in the first part of the week here.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2024: Walton to Woodbridge”
Sailing
Ben had agreed to crew with us again for the Jubilee Race but we were quite anxious about the weather.
Read more “OGA60: Jubilee Race”
Sailing
On Friday morning, bright and early, BBC Radio Suffolk arrived to record the first of three interviews broadcast throughout the morning.
Read more “OGA60: Parade of Sail”
Sailing
The weather doesn’t look promising for the OGA60 Jubilee Party and we have no crew for the trip to Ipswich.
Read more “OGA60 Jubilee: arriving in Ipswich”
Sailing
‘Cachalot’ is 125 years old this year and we’ve invested in some crew kit: t-shirts and caps made by Nathan at ‘Quiller’ in Matlock Bath.
Read more “Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classics, 2023”
Sailing
June 2022 found Steve with Ben and PJ as crew at the Classics Regatta.
Read more “Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classics, 2022”
Sailing
Back to the Tidemill after the Classic Yacht Regatta, it was time to get ready for the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2022.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2022”
Sailing
Since her launch in August, 2017, ‘Cachalot’ has never actually left the Deben!
Read more “Out of the River Deben at last, 2021”
History
Gone are the handwritten entries with signature and official stamp on broadsheet-sized manilla folded into the cloth-bound ‘blue book’. Since the 1990s the Certificate of British Registry is simply a laminated piece of A4 card, printed in plain type and renewable every five years.
Read more “Recent owners”
History
‘Cachalot’ has taken part in events run by the ADLS, including the 1990 ‘Return to Dunkirk’.
Read more “ADLS Rally: Ipswich”