This year’s Hollowshore CC AGM on Thursday December 17 was for the first and hopefully the last time held on Zoom, with nearly 30 friendly faces on screen, plus another nine who took part by sending in their voting intentions by post and e-mail. The move to Zoom was made necessary by the Covid restrictions. …
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COVID 19 CLOSES HCC CLUBHOUSE
The latest lockdown means the HCC clubhouse will be closed into the New Year, and when we can re-open will depend on the Covid restrictions in force at the time. We are as keen as everyone to resume our club activities, and the 2021 sailing and social programme is already being arranged.We are usually very …
HCC’s 2019 AGM
Dick Holness was elected as the new HCC Commodore at the Annual General Meeting in December 2019. He succeeded Phil Davies, who stood down from the committee. His new team is a mix of current and new committee members: Vice-Commodore Mark Sanders; Rear-Commodore Bob Todd; Secretary Mike Riches; Treasurer Dr Viv Moore (Viv Valentine); Social …
RYA presses our cause
The Royal Yachting Association has made formal representation to the Government about owners’ access to boats during the current lockdown. An earlier statement from the RYA was put out to HCC members in early April via a Google Mail, but the RYA has now issued this much fuller press release: – “With the current COVID-19 …
Commodore’s Autumn Newsletter
Commodore Prof. Phil Davies writes: 1 Introduction As we reach that time of year where we look forward to hauling boats out of the water prior to scraping bottoms, crawling through unimaginably small spaces to fix things we didn’t know were broken and standing open mouthed like a stunned mullet unable to believe the price …