Author Archives: fionabrown

Congratulations to Danny Fox and the Mersea Boys in C8 Egret on winning Sunday’s CYC run Carstairs Cup race.  Five BODs came to the line in a light southerly to race using the new CYC course cards for the first … Continue reading →

The new Course Cards for Colne Yacht Club BOD Racing are now available and will come in to effect from today, 22 May 2016, with the Corsairs Cup.  Apologies that these weren’t ready for the first CYC race of the … Continue reading →

As always Malcolm and the team at Park & Ride will do their very best to ensure they have the right number of tractor drivers and launching helpers on duty for our racing, but please would everyone who uses the … Continue reading →

Good news folks.  The sun is coming back just in time for the second Thursday night race of the season and the weather looks good for our first BOD run out with BSC too. The forecast for Thursday night is … Continue reading →

The first official BOD race of the season took place on Sunday 8 May with the Eric Dent Cup which started from the CYC Batemans line at 14.15 in glorious hot sunshine and a lovely easterly breeze.  Despite only four … Continue reading →

The traditional Blessing of the Waters ceremony took place on Sunday 8 May with our very own Rev Anne Howson swopping the BOD for a smack to conduct the service. The great and the good of the town and the … Continue reading →

Please don’t forget to collect your new course cards from BSC.  There is now a single BSC course card which incorporates the BOD Courses so you only have to remember to have one sheet for BSC and one sheet for … Continue reading →

At last the official BOD season is upon us.  Thursday nights start this week and with Never Say Never, Storm Petrel, White Spirit, Dulcet and Grethe all confirmed to be on the start line so we’re getting the series off … Continue reading →

As of Friday 29 April we still have just half a dozen places left for the BOD Racing Rules Seminar on Friday 6 May at Brightlingsea Sailing Club.  International Judge David Chivers will run this fun interactive evening free of charge … Continue reading →

If you love a good old fashioned Quiz Night then CYC have something just for you on Saturday 23 April: