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Remembering Tony Wintle
Club Member Tony Rowe pays tribute to his sailing buddy.
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Maureen Highfield-Sykes honoured at the RYA Volunteer Awards
Maureen-Highfield Sykes has been honoured by the RYA for Lifetime Achievement.
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Misty to the Rescue
Just as both the RYA and RNLI release new safety at sea videos (https://marineindustrynews.co.uk/rya-and-rnli-release-new-safety-afloat-videos/ ) White Mistral and her crew found themselves in a Pan Pan rescue outside of Poole.
Paul Russell tells the tale and there's also a video on the RNLI website here.
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The HOEOCA Fastnet Story - to be continued
Simon Dipple, co-owner of All or Nothing, looks back on HOEOCA's Fastnet Campaigns to date.
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Looking back on Hot Hot Hot 2020
Our destination for our 20th Hot, Hot, Hot was Gocek in Turkey, one of our favourite countries. We first visited the area in 2009 but the plan was to get further south as far as the Kekova Roads. Sadly, the Covid-19 pandemic had reduced our planned 5 boat flotilla (with the option to extend for a 2nd week) to a 1 boat charter of 6!
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Latest RYA Guidelines
The latest guidelance from the RYA for affiliated sailing clubs.
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HOEOCA Calendar 2021
HOEOCA first produced a Calendar for 2013. [How many got that quiz question correct? Ed].
It's become increasingly popular over the years and includes not to be forgotten dates such as Rallies, First Tuesdays and Speaker nights. In addition it makes an ideal Christmas present and is a handy souvenir of the sailing year.
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Lockdown Activities
As we've probably all got a lot more time on our hands right now than we would ideally like we've come up with a few things to keep you occupied and to keep up the HOEOCA spirit during lockdown.
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MYCAR - New Online Resource for Midlands Sailors
Judy Lambourne is working closely with our RYA on the Regional Volunteer Team as Cruising Representative providing information and resources for Cruising Clubs and their members.
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A Brief History of HOEOCA Racing
Mike Veal, at one time Rear Commodore Racing, looks back on how we got into racing and how on how we've come on in leaps and bounds since those early days.
Join Us
Please get in touch if you're interested in joining HOEOCA or come along to a First Tuesday Social or Speaker Evening to meet some members and find out more. All the dates are listed in the Whats' On section on the home page.