Another great Tall Ship success with Topsail!
August 26th, 2010 by admin-
- Liz and Sarah aboard the Wylde Swan
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- Team Topsail!
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- Tall Ships in Victoria Harbour
Operating the corporate hospitality at the Hartlepool Tall Ships Races this August was many months in the planning and smoothly executed by Sarah ‘The Leader’ Pyatt here at mission control. Ships from literally all over the world attended - Indonesia, Russia, Oman – and BBC News Tees hailed the whole event a “stunning success”.
Topsail Events organised deck parties, corporate cruises, hospitality and entertainment of every description: from barbecues on deck with singing waiters under the towering masts to cool jazz on the quarter deck with casinos down below! Some lucky corporate guests got the added wow factor of the magnificent Parade of Sail and the spectacular Firework Evenings.
It was a happy, rewarding week on site for all the Topsail team and as our MD Mark Tower commented: “it has all gone extremely well and we are proud to have been part of such a wonderful, special event.” Be sure to check our website for Tall Ships available in London this autumn!
More Tea, Vicar?
June 25th, 2010 by Amy
English Cream Tea Cruise
Topsail’s English Cream Tea Cruise, a delectable Great British delight, has been very popular this summer, with guests quaffing champagne, sipping tea, and enjoying delicious homemade scones with clotted cream and jam.
Not forgetting the salmon sandwiches, sticky flapjacks, and overflowing bowls of succulent strawberries…yum!
A great way to entertain staff or clients (or the vicar!) and a summery addition to our Thames lunch cruises and Thames dinner cruises.
Our quote of the day:
“A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.”
A.A. Milne, English Author – most famously of Winnie the Pooh (1882-1956)
Tall Ship Hospitality at London International Wine Fair
May 28th, 2010 by Amy
Will & Atlantis at ExCeL
We had a great, gloriously sunny week at the London International Wine Fair 2010 last week, with two beautiful ships at ExCeL’s quayside for hospitality and corporate events in London.
Two corporate clients had a successful three days entertaining and meeting with clients aboard stunning three-masted barquentine Tall Ship Atlantis, and London’s Sailing Barge Will.
Perhaps at next year’s fair (or for other events at ExCeL) we will have a fleet of four! Any takers?!
Our quote of the week:
“Wine is the most civilized thing in the world…”
Ernest Hemingway, (American writer & journalist, 1899-1961)
New Cuban Experience Cruise
May 6th, 2010 by Amy
The art of Cuban cigar rolling
Never one to rest on our laurels, Topsail has joined up with exquisite experiences to create the ultimate Cuban experience for corporate events in London; a fantastic new corporate sailing event for entertaining or team building on the Thames…Rum Tasting & Cigar Rolling!
You don’t have to be a smoker to have great fun learning the art of Cuban cigar rolling. From the highly combustible to the disastrously catastrophic, the results are sure to either please or amuse.
Contact Anthony for more details and a bespoke quotation.
Our quote of the week:
““There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum…”
Lord Byron, (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)
World Cup Screenings onboard Will
April 29th, 2010 by Amy
Kick off!
As we all know (even the non-sporting among us!), the FIFA World Cup is nearly upon us. The action may be taking place in South Africa, but why not take the opportunity to treat staff or clients to an intimate World Cup Screening onboard Will, in London’s centrally located St Katharine Docks?
Key dates include England matches on 18th and 23rd June, or the semi final on 6/7th July. Combine the screening with our team building activities, a meeting, or just a drink or three…
Contact Anthony for more details and a bespoke quotation.
Our quote of the week:
“The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.”
Sir Robert William “Bobby” Robson CBE, (18 February 1933 – 31 July 2009)
Yesterday’s sunny spring networking event
April 8th, 2010 by Amy
SB Will in St Katharine Docks
We had a fantastic open day aboard SB Will yesterday, a networking event in the spring sunshine at St Katharine Docks. There was a great vibe onboard with lots of hustle and bustle; our MD Mark held a meeting in the saloon and clients popped in and out to network and view the boat.
We met some lovely ladies from Visit London who chatted to us about more ways we can work together. Other great clients included Clearfleau and Corporate Entertainment Consultancy, who came to find out more about our corporate sailing events including our dinner cruises and clay pigeon shooting…
Our quote of the week:
“No one has it who isn’t capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn’t fake.”
PD James, English Writer, b.1920
It’s Easter, how egg-citing!
April 1st, 2010 by Amy
Sarah & Lucy Lamb
It’s nearly Easter weekend, so we all pulled names out of a hat for a ’secret bunny’, and swapped easter eggs in the office this morning. Sarah received a chocolate Lucy Lamb and has so far just eaten the (white chocolate) feet… Yum!
So now Lent is over, why not take a look at our egg-citing food & drink based corporate sailing events on the river here – from sushi making team building with Tsuru to Italian cooking parties with La Cucina Caldesi. Double yum!
Our quote of the week:
“Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter, That maketh the leaf and the flower come out”
Bertran de Born, 12th Century
Happy Easter everyone – have a great holiday weekend!
A face for radio?
March 26th, 2010 by Amy
Topsail MD Mark
Topsail MD Mark and our sales & operations superstar Sarah took a trip to Hartlepool this week for planning meetings for our exciting corporate sailing event (and our public Tall Ship Sailing Day) opportunity that is Hartlepool Tall Ships 2010.
Mark cunningly managed to get on Radio Hartlepool to promote the festival. Poor Sarah, however, had to run back to the car to top up the parking meter, so had to listen to the radio interview from the car instead of the studio!
Our quote of the week: “I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by”
John Masefield, English Poet Laureate 1930-1967
Spring into summer on the river
March 11th, 2010 by Amy
Lots of ideas for hospitality on the river
Officially, spring starts in 9 days, on 20th March…so what does that mean for us? It means that as soon as the sun comes out we will get an influx of enquiries for summer parties and hospitality. Thereby I do decree that it is officially “time to think about organising some corporate hospitality on the river thames“ season!
You can’t beat a thames dinner cruise, team building day out (clay shooting from a boat anyone?), or simply a boat party on the river thames, when the sun is shining. We promise.
Our quote of the week: “Never did sun more beautifully steep. In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will.”
Finding a quiet space in London
March 5th, 2010 by Amy
The river is a truly tranquil space in London
Mayor Boris Johnson calls for the creation of peaceful havens from the noise and chaos of modern London life, in this BBC London news video clip.
As all Londoners know, finding a quiet space in London can be nigh on impossible. Reducing noise (”the forgotten pollutant”) in a city of millions is a hard task; one that the Mayor would like to fix by creating quieter places with the use of screens and green spaces.
We at Topsail know that it can be relatively easy to find a quiet space in London – on the river. Far from the madding crowd, a Thames dinner cruise or other corporate sailing events on the water presents an ideal way to stay within London, but seemingly a million miles away from the noise and stress of the city streets.
Our quote of the week:
“How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on…”