Welcome
Haven Ports Yacht Club is based on the lightship at Suffolk Yacht Harbour, Levington, where a warm welcome awaits visiting yachtsmen and new members. The club has active racing and cruising sections, catering for all ages and stages, and a full and varied social programme, as well as excellent bar and restaurant facilities. To make the most of the website it may help to set compatability view "on" on the tools menu of your browser. Thank you.
Coming Up
September 26th - Winter Bar Hours were adopted (see below). Towards the end of the current e-beacon are the days over the holidays when the clubhouse will be closed and it goes on to cover when it is closed for a deep clean!
February 11th - To The Baltic With Ben - A talk by Sam Brown and Camilla Herrmann.
February 25th - Nautical Quiz - Teams of up to 5 - Its a bit of winter fun!
May 25th to 27th - Dragon East Coast Championships
PHOTO COMPETITION - CALENDAR 2012
Enrties for the logs and photo comps have been judged. By way of a chance to see the pictures sent in they have been formed into calendar and each month can be viewed and/or printed off here. It has been done by the month to allow possible updates so the suggestion is to only print a month when you need it.
JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
The winners are:
Best Picture: Linda Jones - reflective seagull in January picture above.
Yacht Log:
Motor Boat Log: Rita and Bob Browne
Blog:
Charlie and Juliet Deerlove
Looking for news?
The latest newsletter (e-beacon) can be viewed to left or clic on "club" and then "news" on the top menu bar.
RNLI Autumn Fair 2011
Thanks for coming along and supporting the Autumn Fair, the club’s annual fund-raising bonanza in aid of the Harwich Lifeboat. There was unwanted books, yacht grot, surplus garden produce for sale, cakes and tombola. There were RNLI Christmas cards and gifts on sale, refreshments available all day and lots of fun competitions to enter. The totals will be available soon but it was great!
clic here for 2010 Totals
Bar Hours
We now working on "Winter Hours", in short every lunchtime except monday and evenings on Fridays and Saturdays. More ... But lets be positive - it will be "summer" again at the tail end of March!
Cruising Pages
There have been some changes in presentation of the Cruising pages (again) for the new season. Take a look now.
On the Programme page links to the flyers for destanations will be possible when they are published. On the Documents page the flyers are there again as well as some navigational information and misc. items.
Members Websites
News: Brindabella recently added.
Upon request and so you can keep up with the news of members, links to sites and blogs have been added to the "contact - links" page. There must be more so please contact us to add your site. Remember there is a new trophy this year for blogs as well as the usual logs so let us know. At the bottom of the page you will see a link to "East Coast Pilot", well worth a look for up to date information.
Marina Security
December update: changes are pending - keep a watch here or listen out for news.
Just a note to let you know that access arrangements have changed at the harbour. If you are not aware call in at the chandlery to receive the new information.
2012 Social Dates
The 2012 social programme is taking shape so keep a watch on the social calendar page or on the "coming up" on this page.
There are talks in the pipeline, along with a chance to have dinner beforehand, and there is a Nautical Quiz on 25th February.
Do you have any ideas for future events? Do you want to run one? Perhaps a shantie night or maybe that Antiques Afloat idea........
Now we are in Europe
You may wish to have some Schengen forms on board so that you are prepared. They can be found for Holland and Belgium from the top menu bar under "racing" and "documents".
You will also find some translations of the Euro letter stating that we in the UK can have red diesel in our tanks. Well worth printing off!
You will find that the site is almost there! Only the gallery to go (Emily) and more news content for the front page is on the agenda. There will be a few more frills on the resources to the left to be added. Please help us by sending in your pictures, reports and tales!