The St Edmundsbury Sailing & Canoeing  Association (SESCA) will be holding  a Club Open Weekend at Lackford Lake, five miles NW of Bury St Edmunds, on May 18/19  from 10.30am-4pm. The event forms part of the RYA’s (Royal Yachting Association) ‘Push the Boat Out’ initiative to encourage everyone to get out on the water…

Ipswich is the largest town in Suffolk and is a great place to visit. It is a culturally diverse town with attractions including historic churches, several museums and art galleries. The River Orwell runs right through the town and the marina is a hive of activity, with several boat companies offering river cruises to visitors….

The Ramsholt Arms is a lovely pub on the river Deben near Woodbridge, We like to go there for a good day out taking in Orford Castle, the Butley Oysteridge,  Orford Ness or Sutton Hoo as well. You can walk up the river bank from the pub and find fossilised sharks teeth lying on the…

  If you are sailing up to Aldeburgh this is the way you go and a very exciting start it can be too, I have done it 4 times and felt to bottom twice as there is about a 20 minute ‘window’ when you can get over the sand and gravel bar which blocks the river…

The River Deben is a tidal estuary in Suffolk, flowing through largely unspoilt countryside for nearly 25 miles from its source near Debenham to the North Sea at Felixstowe Ferry. The Deben is tidal for about 13 miles, from Bromeswell, just upstream from Woodbridge. Sutton Hoo sits high on the bank overlooking the river just…