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Don’t forget that Alan Hicks’ beautiful new BOD C54 Storm Petrel is launching from The Hard this Easter Saturday 19 April. Come and help Alan celebrate and don’t forget that if the weather is good there will be opportunities to … Continue reading →

The BOD Dinner will be held on Saturday 10th May 2014 at Brightlingsea Sailing Club. With so many exciting developments and new boats in the class for the coming season, this year’s dinner is going to be really special as … Continue reading →

Our roving reporter had a quick chat with Malcolm Goodwin this week who advises that good progress is being made on the full restoration of Cormorant.  Following the big lift to get her into the upstairs workshop (thanks to everyone … Continue reading →

With C54 now only days away from launching, its the turn of James Anderson’s C55 to undergo the Simon Hipkin fit out treatment.  The hull and tank mouldings were moved from White’s to Simon’s yard recently and Simon is already making … Continue reading →

Alan Hicks invites you to celebrate the launch of Brightlingsea One Design (BOD) C54 Storm Petrel at 2.30pm on Saturday 19th April (Easter Saturday) 2014 at The Hard, Brightlingsea, Essex. Storm Petrel is the first new BOD to be built … Continue reading →

The eagle eyed among you may have noticed that we’ve just updated the number of boats in build in the side panel to the right to 4.  This is because in addition to C54 (Alan Hicks) and C55 (James Anderson), which … Continue reading →

Both Brightlingsea Sailing Club and the Colne Yacht Club have now published their full sailing programmes for the year.  Click here to view the BOD and club programmes.

The sun and warm weather has brought everyone out of the woodwork and Park and Ride has been a hive of new BOD activity over the past couple of days. On Friday Alan Hicks and Craig Bond spent the day … Continue reading →

One of our highly trained under cover reporting team has just sent me the following snap shot demonstrating the excellent use our illustrious Fleet Captain Mr Richardson and his crew make of Panic during the winter season, when she becomes … Continue reading →

It’s always lovely to find out how people came to be partnered with their BODs and the story of Richard Austin and C44 Janice is a particularly nice one. Richard originally registered at the BOD website because he was researching … Continue reading →