Trip Reports

Bridlington – 14th – 16th August 2025 Phil prepped and checked Top Cat during the week before we towed it on Friday evening for Bridlington. We met up with Anna and Mark in the Lobster Pot bar to firm up the dive plan for Saturday. Plan A was to dive LV 83, however the forecast […]

Anglesey Dive / Snorkel & BBQ Weekend – 2nd – 3rd August 2025 The aim of this weekend was to provide a Club diving and snorkeling trip, to give newer members experience of the sea and RHIB diving, and to provide a BBQ and social evening for all members. There was a lot of interest

Eyemouth Dive Weekend – 28th – 29th June 2025 Departing to make the journey up to Eyemouth on the Friday we all had varying degrees of traffic congestion but by late evening we were all present in our lovely spacious static caravans on the Eyemouth park so close to where the boat was moored. Saturday

Dieppe Wrecks Dive Trip – 15th – 19th June 2025 The trip was a joint expedition with ECSAC and St Ives (Cambs) SAC to dive the usually remote wrecks out of Dieppe France. There were four of us from ECSAC, Steve Jan, Simon and Clare, and three from SISAC; Joe Paul and Dan. Three others

Llyn Peninsula and Anglesey Dive Weekend – 20th – 22nd June 2025 Top Cat and Cheshire Cat were prepped and checked mid-week ready for towing. The journey down was smooth despite a contraflow through the Conwy tunnel. Nikki had booked accommodation for six near Caernarfon while Phil and I stayed on Anglesey. On Saturday morning

Anglesey Bank Holiday Weekend – 3rd – 5th May 2025 A big thank you to Phil, Dave and Steve for ensuring that the repairs to  Top Cat‘s trailer were all sorted prior to this trip. We got the boat prepped and set off from Macclesfield to Anglesey for a weekend of diving in superb weather.

Gallipoli, Turkey – 26th April – 3rd May 2025 Five of us met at Manchester airport early on Saturday morning to catch our flight to Istanbul with Turkish Airlines (we met Paul at Istanbul airport as he had gone out earlier for a holiday). The airport is huge and it took some time to get

Anglesey Easter Weekend – 18th – 20th April 2025 The journey to Anglesey on Thursday evening was smooth. The forecast was for South Easterly winds force 3 gusting 4. In true bank holiday fashion, it started raining in the early hours of Friday and continued for 36 hours. There were some incidents with the trailer

Menai Boat Run – 23rd March 2025  Dave and Clemmie organised the East Cheshire contingent to take part in the annual Menai Boat run this year.   They had a very early start with their alarm sounding at 4.30am in order to tow Top Cat to Y Felinhali and meet the rest of us.  We all