Is membership of the Cruising Association (CA) worth the £118 annual membership fee?

That was the question back in October last year when Rosemary and Brian (currently in Tunisia) wondered about it aloud on our forum.  In response, the Cruising Association kindly allowed Sailers to have a good look around their website, join MedNet for a month, and generally have a poke about under the deck boards.

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A Microburst - a fierce vertical wind - was responsible for sinking the Canadian tall ship 'Concordia', says it's Captian, William Curry.  48 students and the 16 professional crew and teachers from the Concordia, which sank 300 miles off the coast of Brazil, have been rescued successfully.

The Concordia is a Canadian floating classroom which has taken over 1000 GAP and university students, who have earned both high school and university credits while sailing around the world.