One way to recover a boat!

  The Bates winter refurbishment is nearing completion. 
Isn’t she looking great?!

Repair of the entrance gate is now complete. Fobs that you may possess will need to be paired with the gate before they will work, so in the meantime please use the four digit code (same as last year) on the keypad to gain access.

If you are down over Easter weekend, Dave Lawson will be available to pair your fob with the gate and activate it for future access.

The new season is but a stone’s throw away – it starts on Easter Saturday!

Pop down and meet up with friends and rivals, and even consider having a sail!

Handbooks will be available for collection at the bar for the next few weekends. After this time they will be posted to your address as recorded on WebCollect.

Hope to see you all sometime soon.

The Lady Rear Commodore has sent the following link to the school’s fund raising run. She hopes that the many runners in the club will consider taking part and aid their training for the various other runs in which they’ll be partaking this year.

Final call for copy for the next edition of Foxy Tales. Please email Mik Chappell with any articles or anecdotes which you may wish to share with the rest of the membership.

Please get your articles to us by the end of February 

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We are presently preparing information for the handbook. The following fleet list is based on data in Webcollect. If there are any changes please let us know as soon as possible (and amend Webcollect if you can)

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2016 is here – enjoy! It won’t be long till the new season starts, better start stretching that wet/dry suit….

We have just learned that member John Shackleton sadly died on Christmas Eve.

He had known he had cancer for six years and went through and benefitted from many different treatments during those years, all the while knowing it was not curable.

He was a very determined man who believed strongly that “you can not afford a bad day” whatever life was throwing at you and he tried hard to live up to that.

Wherever he lived and worked around the world, sailing was his main love and John was thrilled to have his lugger(s) on Bassenthwaite. Despite his many physical challenges John determined that he was fit enough to sail his beloved Lugger even as late as this last summer.

Our thoughts and condolences go out to his wife Gwen at this sad time.

John’s funeral is being held at 11am Monday 4th January in Accrington Crematorium, Lancs

BB5 6HA

followed by nosh at John’s favourite Carvery –

The Game Cock, Great Harwood, Lancashire, BB6 7UH

Please let me know if you will come for nosh?

Family flowers only – donations if wished to East Lancashire Hospice 

Wishing one and all a very merry Christmas, and a happy and prosperous New Year for 2016.

May the winds be fair, the sun shine, and the rain not be as persistent!