As we begin a brand new sailing and social season at BCC I’d like to invite you to take a look at what’s new and what we’ve were given in store for us in 2016.

first off and most manifestly our new website is now operational. The site supports all the same old activities including offering information and the booking of places on occasions. The large change is the addition of capabilities to permit organisers to more without difficulty provide data and updates about activities and for all individuals to interact with every different. The social media wave has now sooner or later washed over BCC!

Take a look around our new ‘club residence’
We’ve come to recognize that, as a ‘digital membership’, the internet site is our clubhouse and we invite all individuals to come back and have a wander round and strive the various ‘doorways’. perhaps you’d like to: test the touch Us segment in which you could familiarise yourself with this yr’s committee; review the occasions planned for this season within the Programme segment; and ebook on any occasions that look thrilling – we’ve taken into consideration the outcomes of the latest member survey so hope we’ve arranged stuff you’ll revel in. after you’ve were given your BCC season deliberate it might be great to peer you asking and answering questions about the diverse forums, posting articles approximately your nautical sports, swapping pointers on fitting out/fashionable upkeep/locations to visit/laying up, normally adding to the uplifting banter that we are hoping will inform and amuse us all. There’s even a discussion board to permit you to make touch with other contributors to arrange cruising in organization on advert-hoc journeys.

same possibilities
while sometimes every boat wishes a skipper, we’re keen that every one participants can take part in membership sports and the web web site so you’ll find that even though the club rate is still in step with boat, skippers and crews can have their very own log-in for the net website online and so all members can participate in discussions.

You’ll also discover that the committee now better displays the demographic of the club – we’ve even controlled to recruit some committee participants who aren’t grumpy vintage men!

There are a few occasions that don’t but have organisers (even though we’ve booked the key elements which include berths and so on.), so if you fancy ‘website hosting’ an event please test study those marked as ’Organiser: tba’ and give me a hoop/drop me an e mail. equally, in case you’d like to be a number boat for the pontoon birthday celebration, it might be superb to listen from you.

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