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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 →

As part of our series tracking the construction of C54 for Alan Hicks, this week we’ve got an update from Mark White who has just completed the fairing and finishing of the centreboard for the new boat.  Mark has kindly … Continue reading →

Our roving reporter snuck into White’s on Monday to find that all the moulding work on C55 is now complete, her tanks have been fitted and she is now sitting in the mould ready for transportation to Simon Hipkin for … Continue reading →

We had a great turnout for the lifting operation to move Cormorant from the lower to upper workshop on Sunday so thanks to everyone who was able to come and help.  Malcolm got everyone briefed and organised and the lift … Continue reading →