Our regular branch meetings for the current winter season are shown below.
Contact: Peter Gifford, 11 Gordon Avenue, Bishopton, Renfrewshire, PA7 5EX.
Tel : 01505 863386. peterclaymore@hotmail.co.uk
Generally, we like to hold our monthly meetings on a THURSDAY evening
— that being the LAST Thursday in the month —
but from time to time this regular pattern needs to change.
Our meetings are held at Royal Gourock Yacht Club, Ashton road, GOUROCK, PA19 1DA, commencing at 19.30 hours.
PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS —- WINTER 2025 / 2026
2025
06 SEPTEMBER We held a special 60TH ANNIVERSARY LUNCH at theRoyal Gourock Yacht Club to celebrate the founding of our branch in 1965. Good food, good conversation, with much reminiscing. A splendid afternoon, all told !
25 SEPTEMBER TO THE ANTILLES FOR FRUIT, & THE CRESCENT CITY Tom Carreyette
30 OCTOBER CUXHAVEN AND HAMBURG Maurice Napier
27 NOVEMBER YEAR ON THE CLYDE : 1965 Paul Strathdee,
Committee member
2026
29 JANUARY JAPAN AND SOUTH KOREA Alan Dowie,
WSS Firth of Forth branch
26 FEBRUARY ARDROSSAN HARBOUR AND THE MANX CONNECTION Iain Quinn,
Clyde River Steamer Club
26 MARCH AGM + 60 GLORIOUS YEARS Peter Gifford
30 APRIL FIRTH OF FORTH : 2020 — 2022 Iain McGeachy,
WSS Firth of Forth branch
BRANCH REPORT
The continuing story of our branch saw us having to leave our meeting place at short notice in the summer of 2024. The Cedars school where we had met for 9 successful winter seasons suddenly announced that it had to close down. Our replacement meeting place is no longer in Greenock, but in the neighbouring town of Gourock. It’s at the Royal Gourock Yacht Club.
These pictures were taken at our 50th Anniversary Lunch. [09.2015 plus 03.2016]