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Looking Back on the Spring Rally 2021
Jude Lambourne looks back on our Spring 2021 Rally.
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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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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.
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A Brief History of HOEOCA Rallies
Judy Lambourne, Rear Commodore Cruising for many years and organiser of our annual Hot Hot Hot trip to The Med, reflects on how our rallies have developed over the years.
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A Year in the Life of HOEOCA
Graham Clarke has raided his filing cabinets to see wht we all got up to in 2002, the year he joined HOEOCA.
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How it all Started & The First Rally
Peter Smerdon, a Founder Member, looks back on the early days of HOEOCA and the very first rally in November 1993.
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Looking Back at our First Canal Cruise
Graham Clarke looks back on our first canal cruise, was it we needed something completely different, or was it we needed to be on the water? Anyway we hired three narrow boats which were quickly filled, Goose, Owl and Warbler, 70’ in length.
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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.
