The OGA was formed in 1963.  In 2023 we celebrated our Diamond Jubilee around the country with events for small boats, larger boats and people on foot.

The Round Britain Cruise (RBC60) formed a thread throughout the celebrations, joining up the areas and finishing at the four day Jubilee Party on the River Orwell in Suffolk in August.

Bonita, the oldest boat in the circumnavigating fleet went round 10 years previously, as did although Susan J, although she is under different ownership. Indian Runner was bought specially for the trip. Recipe is one of the Dutch participants, and Step Back In Time was one of the smallest in the fleet. All wrote blogs which can be viewed from the links on their names above.

Other stories related to the event can be seen at www.sailing-by.org.uk. There is a lot of information on there with a tag OGA60, about what happened this year, while the tag OGA50 has all the old posts, revised with improved photo galleries, from 2013. There’s also lots of content from the ten years between which has been reworked and republished.