PYA – Out & About
Pole Refit La Rochelle
Pole Refit La Rochelle (PRLR) – corporate members of the PYA since 2009 – is an association of companies which offer yacht construction / refit / repair services and facilities in and around the Port of La Rochelle. They attend to the promotion and marketing of the various companies with a view to attracting yachts to the area, and PYA Council Member Russell Lunt, representing the Professional Yachtsmen’s Association, attended at La Rochelle at the invitation of PRLR on the occasion of their ‘Open Days’ on 20/21 October 2011.
Click here to read Russell’s report of his ‘essential fact-finding mission’

PYA Golf Tournament – Friday 3rd June 2011
La Grande Bastide Golf Club,
Opio, France
Click here for list of prizes and results.
Click here to read golf report.
And also go the gallery to see the photos.
The PYA was very active at the Antibes Yacht Show in April
Please find the notes from the two seminars that it hosted. Both were very well attended.
CAPTAIN ROGER TOWNER’S CRYSTAL BALL – part 2 – 21st Sept 2010
Click here to read more
Salvage, Grounding, Piracy – Report on the workshop by Norwegian Hull Club
CAPTAIN ROGER TOWNER’S CRYSTAL BALL
Date: Tuesday 21nd September
Venue: conference room
Hosted by the Professional Yachtsmen’s Association
Sponsored by Blue Water Training and Hoylake Sailing School
Speaker: Captain Roger Towner, UK Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, MCA
Subjects discussed included the STCW code revisions, the implications of MLC, the 3000gt ceiling and the ways and means to rise above it.
Click here for full report of the meeting.
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