Author Archives: fionabrown

Don’t forget we have Brightlingsea Regatta this weekend.  Key points for BODs are: Saturday 31 June All day – lots of stalls, fun and games around the hard and Harbour Square at the marina plus a full programme of events at … Continue reading →

From Class Secretary Jeremy Newman – All available BOD owners and sailors are invited to an informal fleet meeting at the Colne Yacht Club immediately after racing on Sunday 1 June.  There are two items on the Agenda: 1.  The … Continue reading →

David Chivers recently found these wonderful archive photos of BODs racing at Burnham, taken by Trevor Davies.  Does anyone have any idea which year these were taken and can you help identify the boats in the photos? Comment below if you … Continue reading →

This coming weekend its Brightlingsea Town Regatta and the town is really pulling out all the stops for the 2014 edition.  Ashore the regatta is taking over the Waterside Marina’s Harbour Court area which will be filled with lots of … Continue reading →

The entry for Pyefleet Week just keeps on growing and with Danny Fox and the Egret crew (aka The Mersea Boys) and the leg-end that is Mr Robert White sailing Sarah Louise, on loan from Jack Wills, now throwing throwing their … Continue reading →

Three boats came to the line for the first of the Cormorant Cup races on Sunday 25 May.  After some confusion over the start time Adrian and Judith Gibbons and Tom Quilligan aboard Blue Peter led off the line closely followed … Continue reading →

In our earlier post we announced that this Sunday’s Cormorant Cup 1 race is to start from the BSC line at 14.10 as stated on the BOD Programme.  On checking the BSC Calendar we have established that this is incorrect. … Continue reading →

Fi just did a very quick informal add up and it looks like we will definitely be over 20 boats for Pyefleet Week and the President’s Race this year. Here are the 20 boats we are already pretty sure will … Continue reading →

Simon Hipkin has been in touch to let us know that the construction of C55 is moving ahead on schedule and he anticipates delivering the boat to James Anderson before the end of June. Simon tells us that he has … Continue reading →

The Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend is upon us and with it comes the first of the Cormorant Cup races which starts from the BSC line at 11.00 (not 14.10 as previously stated) on Sunday 25 May. The forecast for Sunday … Continue reading →