Author Archives: fionabrown

Brightlingsea Sailing Club has published a brand new course card which now includes all the BOD Courses within the main card.  This will hopefully help to avoid confusion in future as we will be using the same Group letter and … Continue reading →

The inimitable Mr Geoff Gritton requests the pleasure of your company to celebrate the unveiling of C56 Never Say Never – the very latest addition to the BOD family – at 11.00 on Easter Friday 25th March at Brightlingsea Boat Park and … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce that the tickets for the 2016 BOD Dinner are now officially on sale! Click here for the booking form. The dinner will take place at Brightlingsea Sailing Club on Saturday 30th April. Pre-dinner drinks will be served … Continue reading →

By popular demand we will be running a 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 with a view to allowing everyone to … Continue reading →

Derek Gentry – soon to be joining the crew of Geoff Gritton’s new BOD C56 Never Say Never – has been delving into his archives and found some fascinating Yachts & Yachting articles.  The first is about the BOD from … Continue reading →

Whilst we might not have been out on the water recently, that doesn’t mean the BOD Fleet is totally dormant.  In fact, quite the opposite!  This winter the fleet has been a veritable hive of activity. Simon Hipkin is now … Continue reading →

At the BOD AGM Bob Richardson stood down as our Chairman having competed his two year stint and Jeremy Newman also stood down as Class Secretary, although he has generously agreed to continue coordinating the sailing programme. The new officers … Continue reading →

With the 2016 now in our sights we’ve published the 2016 Racing Programme and 2016 Social Programme and we’ve also updated the Class Rules to the 2016 edition reflecting the one small rule change approved at the AGM in November, to allow … Continue reading →

Back in late July 1986 the Brightlingsea One Design fleet suddenly found itself staring in a major Hollywood movie as this fascinating extract from the log of Tom Sargent of C6 Jumbo Too relates: Thursday 31st July and Friday 1st … Continue reading →

So it turns out that it’s not just Panic and Aina undergoing significant refit/restoration work this winter.  Word reaches us from Rob Maloney in Wivenhoe that C31 Blue Peter is in his workshop and he is in the middle of … Continue reading →