Author Archives: fionabrown

Your BOD Fleet Needs You!  Please would as many people as possible come over to Malcolm Goodwin’s workshop in St John St, Wivenhoe at 7.00pm on Tuesday 15th July to help lift Cormorant out of the upper workshop and down … Continue reading →

Storm Petrel, helmed by Alan Hicks and Jayne and Craig Bond, this weekend continued their drive towards BOD World domination by winning the Carstairs Cup from Mark White, Dick Stephens and Mark Wilby in White Spirit by just 42 seconds. Five boats … Continue reading →

The second of the Cormorant Cup two race series took place on Sunday 22 June and turned into a match race between Mark White in White Spirit and Chris Matthews in Rebel.  It was to be a sunny light airs race … Continue reading →

Sorry for the lack of race reports over the last 10 days, our webmaster had to go off and earn a living for a few days, but fortunately she’s back to loafing around this week so here is a catch … Continue reading →

We have a secret we’ve been dying to share with you, and today we can finally reveal that….. drum roll…… two time Cherub National Champion and all round B’sea legend Graham Bridle is joining the BOD Fleet for Pyefleet Week … Continue reading →

Here are the latest images from Simon Hipkin’s build shed where C55 is rapidly coming together.  As you can see from the images taken at the end of last week, the deck is on, the joinery work is complete and … Continue reading →

Following full discussions with racing competitors and race organisers, it has been agreed that the CYC start time will be amended from 14.30 to 13.45.  This will apply for all CYC afternoon races for the 2014 season. This change will … Continue reading →

What a great day was had by all on Saturday for Rowhedge Regatta.  With ten BODs coming to the Bateman’s start line it was to be a brilliant day’s racing with lots of place changing in the tricky light conditions … Continue reading →

Penned by Bob Richardson on Saturday evening after Rowhedge Regatta – enjoy! I do not wish to pre empt Roy Hodgson’s post match interview tonight but I feel it would be safe for me to say that I am a … Continue reading →