Sailing Opportunities

Club News, Sailing Trips | January 25th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Through this web site Bromsgrove Boaters would like to provide a crew finder facility where members can post their availability for sailing and skippers,  including boat owning members may advertise sailing opportunities.  This could include groups wishing to charter either in UK waters or perhaps in the Mediterranean with berths available. 

If  a boat owning member wishes to promote a sailing opportunity through this web site, this should be viewed by all parties involved as a private arrangment and will not therfore benifit from the clubs liability insurance which is intended to provide cover for club organised sailing activities only. 

Any member wishing to use this facility should add brief details in the comments area at the bottom of this article which should include the nature of the voyage, date (fixed or flexible) boat details etc.  Should you wish to include your direct contact details you are reminded that this is an open website and your details can therefore be viewed by anyone.  Alternatively please provide details of the trip or your availability stating that your contact details are available via the club cruising secretary at cruising@bromsgroveboaters.co.uk  

Don’t forget to check out our  spring sailing weekends and cross channel  cruise in company for club organised sailing.

Bromsgrove Boaters Library

Club News, Useful Resources | January 22nd, 2012 | No comments yet

  One of the many benefits of joining Bromsgrove Boaters is the free use of our extensive library.  Members are entitled to one month’s free use of any library media which includes not only books but educational DVD’s Interactive CD ROM’s such as collision regs etc.  Amongst the extensive collection of books on offer are many pilot books including the Shell channel pilot, West Country cruising companion, Croatia Cruising Companion to name but a few.  In addition to the media listed below there are a large number of charts which are in the process of being catalogued for inclusion here.

Due to the weight & volume of the library it is not always possible to have everything on display at our monthly meetings, so if you wish to reserve anything from the list below please either email librarian@bromsgroveboaters.co.uk or make a request in the comments area at the bottom of this article.  Please give one weeks notice where possible in case the item is already on loan.

Enormous thanks to member John Baker now living in Australia for his very generous donation of books and charts.

Please Click Here to view Library contents in new window

 

Welcome to our new website

Club News | August 16th, 2011 | No comments yet

We’ve been excited about this day for a while and now, our new website is up and running.

Our main objective for the website was to give you, at first glance, an insight into what we do at Bromsgrove Boaters.

We will keep you regularly updated with latest news in our new blog and be sure to check out our events section, to see how you can get involved in upcoming events.

We hope you like the look and feel of the new site and can easily find the information you are looking for. We are really pleased…and we hope you like it too!

Please Note: If you are viewing this site using Internet Explorer 6 or lower, we strongly recommend you upgrade your browser. Recommended Reading

Sailing Magazines Available (FOC)

Club News, Useful Resources | January 26th, 2012 | No comments yet

 

“Paul Evans has a large pile of magazines from about 2001 to 2010. These are mainly Yachting Monthly and Sailing Today, with a few random issues of Practical Boat Owner. They are mostly complete, but I have filleted a few articles (Gull’s Eye features of ports around the UK, mostly)Free to a good home, but you will have to collect them, as I usually walk to the Rugby club for meetings! Paul Evans”

Contact Paul directly at

paulsailing@gmail.com   or phone 01527 832492

Roger Taylor returns to Bromsgrove Boaters. (The Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing)

Club News | January 22nd, 2012 | 1 Comment

 

On The 18th January Members of Bromsgrove Boaters were honored to welcome Roger Taylor for the second time to our club

Below is an excellent review of the evening by member Richard Bird

Roger Taylor gave his second talk at Bromsgrove Boaters and proved beyond the shadow of a doubt he truly deserves the title “Intrepid Sailor”. Roger’s talk about his exploits on “Mingming” a 21 foot junk rigged Corribee drew gasps form the transfixed audience. His descriptions, slides and videos taken in the high Northern latitudes amongst the ice and whales were truly both breathtaking and incredible.

Sailing on his own for months at a time in a tiny vessel and obviously truly enjoying the total isolation and communion with nature in all its forms was so obvious to us the audience. It left you with a feeling of someone who had taken singlehanded sailing into new and completely different realm. The realm of the humpback whale and seabirds, of glaciers and ice floes of volcanoes and pack ice, of cragged mountain peaks and frightening gales along with days of utmost tranquillity and beauty in a sea that welcomed you  – if you showed the respect and love for it that Roger obviously does. His first book Voyages of a Simple sailor sets the scene and tells of his shipwreck on a square rigger and his modifying Mingming his second book Mingming and the art of Minimal Ocean Sailing is absolutely spellbinding with tremendous reviews from the sailing fraternity. Both books worth having can be ordered from HERE

Club Organized Sailing, Insurance and the use of Non Coded Boats

Club News, Sailing Trips | November 14th, 2011 | No comments yet

During the past couple of years many questions have been asked regarding the level of cover provided by the club’s liability insurance policy.  In an attempt to answer this and other insurance related questions members of Bromsgrove Boaters committee embarked upon a large piece of work which perhaps unsurprisingly raised more questions than it answered. 

This article is aimed to inform the reader of the many issues surrounding the use of non coded boats for club organized sailing activities so that you may better understand why as a club we are no longer able to arrange sailing on privately owned non coded boats. 

On Liability insurance held by Bromsgrove Boaters strictly I am prohibited within the terms of our policy to summarise or comment on cover provided. In spite of this I am prepared as a non professional to offer my opinion on certain areas of cover in an aim to satisfy questions asked from within the membership of Bromsgrove Boaters.  Any opinion offered below will be as a result of having read the relevant sections of our insurance policy as well as having asked specific questions to our insurance broker. 

It should be borne in mind that the officers of the club felt it necessary to guard against errors & omissions during club organized activities and that the annual cost per member for liability insurance represents approximately £2.00 per head.  It should be assumed therefore that any cover provided by the policy will only satisfy a minimum requirement.  Members are strongly advised to seek advice from an insurance expert and arrange for suitable insurance cover to satisfy their own insurance requirements.

 

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