BMF NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2007
View Newsletter ArchiveThe winter quarterly meeting and Christmas Dinner of BMF Wessex will be held on Tuesday 11th December 2007 at:
Salterns Hotel,
Salterns Way,
Lilliput, Poole,
Dorset at 6.30 for 7.00pm.
Our guest speaker will be Jake Kavanagh Practicals Editor for Practical Boat Owner Magazine. He entertained us two years ago and says he will be working on some new material so we look forward to a fun evening. We will be holding our charity raffle again and would welcome donations of prizes. Please let me know if you are able to bring a prize.
Barbara and Cyril Snare and Mermaid Owners Club have kindly offered to sponsor the wine at the dinner. Grateful thanks to them for offering this. We welcome sponsorship for future dinners. This normally involves providing some wine. If you are interested in this please give me a call.
I hope you will be able to join us on 11th December. The cost will be £20 per head. Please send your booking form and cheque to me by 3rd December at the latest.
Following the BMF Wessex AGM on 9th October Peter Gordon is now our chairman. Keith Lovett is vice chairman and Celia Sharpe is secretary and treasurer. Andy Osman has now left Poole to take up a position as manager of Sovereign Harbour at Eastbourne. We wish him well in his new job. The new committee are; Peter Burt, Geoff Warde, Jonathan Howe, James Sydenham, Jon Eads, Jan Robinson, John Graham, Seth Marshall, Ben Geary – Sunseeker International, David Okey – Mermaid marine Engines and Paul Glatzel – Powerboat Training UK.
The Christmas Dinner will be at Salterns Hotel on 11th December 2007 at 6.30 for 7.00pm. There will be the traditional raffle with all proceeds to charity. Donations of prizes will be very welcome. Jake Kavanagh of Practical Boat Owner has kindly agreed to have his arm twisted and come along again with some more stories to entertain us. The wine is being provided by Barbara and Cyril Snare on behalf of Mermaid Owners Club. Many thanks to them for this. Please send back the reply slip on the accompanying letter.
BMF Wessex AGM will be held in the Autumn. Andy Osman will then have completed his 2 years as chairman and our vice chairman Peter Gordon will be taking the chair. Nominations are invited to join the committee at this time.
BMF would like to welcome all new and existing members to a Member Awareness Day on 21st November 2007. Informative presentations will be given by key BMF staff members who work on your behalf across the range of services provided by BMF, including an opportunity to hear from the National Boat Shows team. The presentation session starts at 10.00am and includes key topics such as how BMF & Marine House is set up; its functions & key contacts, the many services on offer and the benefits and value of BMF membership. Lunch will be served at 12.45pm with an opportunity to network with fellow members and have one to one discussions with BMF staff. We are also delighted to advise that a contribution of £25 will be given towards travel costs for each company attending the event. Please ask for an expenses claim form on the day.
For further information on the day please contact the membership team on 01784 223663 or email membership@britishmarine.co.uk. Registrations to attend must reach the BMF by close of business on Monday 19th November.
Planning is taking place for 2008 Poole Afloat. We are intending to hold the event for one day only on Saturday 21st June completely on Poole Quay and in Poole Quay Boat Haven. Poole Afloat will be held on the same day as "Arri Paye Day" and the Fishermens Regatta. This will ensure maximum visitor numbers to the Quay on the day and will be jointly marketed. For more information please contact Celia Sharpe on 01202 431088 or James Sydenham on 01202 707391. To book stand space on the Quay please contact Carol Middleton on 01202 701828. Spaces will be limited so please book asap.
Rockley @ Poole Park, is celebrating after winning a top award in the prestigious Poole Tourism Awards! The Sibbett Gregory Tourism Awards recognise Poole's top people in tourism and this year Rockley @ Poole Park won a joint special sponsors award with other key figures at Poole Park. The special sponsors award recognised all of those involved in the transformation of Poole Park.
Peter Gordon said: "It was a great honour to be recognised in the Sibbett Gregory Tourism Awards! Since opening Rockley @ Poole Park earlier this year we have welcomed thousands of people to experience watersports on the wonderful 60-acre Poole Park Lake. Rockley @ Poole Park was created to make watersports accessible to everyone and the Poole Park lake is ideal to introduce beginners to watersports with its shallow waters. Poole Park is perfectly located to attract tourists, corporate groups and school groups who can enjoy sailing, windsurfing, kayaking and our newest watersport, dragon boating which gives up to 20 paddlers the chance to row together in 40 ft. boats! Our greatest success story at Poole Park is the Onboard scheme which gives youngsters the opportunity to get on the water. School groups from across the county visit Rockley @ Poole Park during physical education lessons and after school clubs to learn the skills of watersports".
Marina Developments Ltd (MDL) is pleased to announce that the £940,000 Drystack extension at Cobb's Quay Marina in Poole Harbour is now fully operational. This project was completed and handed over earlier this year providing an extra 125 racks. This makes the Drystack facility at Cobb's Quay the largest in the UK with 248 racks accommodating all types of sports boats up to 10 metres LOA.
Before the handover, the marina had a high demand for space in the Drystack so the extension was built to satisfy this demand. Enquiries are still being received in record numbers as demand continues to grow. Along with the extension, a second Drystack forklift was purchased from the ‘Hoist Lift Company’ in America. This allowed us to have a dual launch and recovery operation running at the same time from the dedicated launch bay. Two additional staff members have since been employed to cater for the increase in operations. In August, the dry stack team set a new record for the site by launching and recovering 136 boats in one day. To compliment the Drystack an additional 3 service racks were added, giving the Drystack the capability to have eight boats being worked on at any given time on the ground.
The Drystack extension has filled rapidly leaving just a few vacancies for anyone wanting to make the most of the benefits that Drystack has to offer. The Drystack option gives the boat owner the following benefits:
- Reduced maintenance and costs
- No need for antifouling
- Better access for working/cleaning
- Higher residual boat value
Drystack berth holders can also make use of their 'Club Outlook' membership to visit other MDL marinas at no additional cost. More information can be found at www.mdlmarinas.co.uk.
Rockley Watersports played host to a top children's sailing event, attracting 30 very talented young sailors! Children aged between 8 to 12 years, from Parkstone Yacht Club took part in the AB World Inland Championships, which took place at Poole Park in Dorset.
Peter Gordon said: "The AB World Inland Championships is a very prestigious event for talented young sailors and it was fantastic that we were able to host the event at Poole Park."
Peter Gordon said: "We were really impressed by the standard of the young sailors this year and were proud that many of the children taking part in the event were taught by Rockley Watersports instructors! All the children who took part had a fantastic time and parents were also given the chance to shine in the parent/child race!"
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If you think that every newsletter has something about Rockley Watersports in it you are quite correct! This is because they email every press release to me. If you would like your news to be included then all you have to do is email me at wessex@britishmarine.com
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