From the Commodore
Published 15:38 on 22 Aug 2024
From the Commodore's (and Editor's) Wheelhouse.
By Steve White F34 Wight Mistress
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What a year 2024 has been for us. Most of my time since the last AGM has been taken up learning how to be the Commodore (work in progress), working on Fisher LITE and preparing for NEPTUNE80, a combined FOA and Fareham Sailing and Motor Boat Club rally to Ouistreham and Caen to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Wight Mistress has been in use all through the winter but April and May was spent servicing all the bits that needed it, helping our friend Mike with CF28 EX- REA (year 6 of the refit) and generally getting our act together. We departed these shores in Wight Mistress on 27 May and after a 25 hour, 105 mile voyage in F4 to 6 gusting 7, arrived at Ouistreham at lunch time, where we saw 'SAS EN COURS' on the lock, meaning it was in process of letting us in. So, a 5kt average speed, mostly under sail. Not bad. After NEPTUNE 80 finished we visited St Vaast, Cherbourg and Alderney, at which point the decision was whether to head further south and continue the cruise or pick up the favourable weather and come home. The pull to come home was a bit too much so we are home for a rest.
Barbara and I went (by car) to Holland in September to attend the Fisherclub Nederlands southern rally at Hellevoetsluis. We did consider taking Wight Mistress but we had an important baby-sitting duty for our youngest granddaughter immediately after the rally, and even Wight Mistress wasn't fast enough to get home in the short time needed.
With the desire and intention to forge a closer link with the Fisherclub Nederland, and after chatting with Frank Sangers (F34 White Rose) the chairman, I decided to join them. They have the intention of a group of Dutch Fishers coming to join in with the Fisher 55 rally next year and with the conniption we have with the German Fisher Freunde Group, we hope to see some of them as well.
Finally, I want to say a huge thank you to your Committee for all their hard work throughout 2024 and I look forward to an exciting and busy 2025
Happy Fishering
Steve White
FOA Commodore and Fisher LITE Editor
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