Chichester Yacht Club Magazine December 2016 | Page 2

Commodore Robin Hamilton
Many of you attended the very interesting talk
by John Ascoli celebrating the 80th anniversary
of our original club. I wonder how many of us
realised the club was so old.

also ask you to
confirm this at
renewal. Please be
assured this
information is never
Next year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of shared with any
the present club, which was re-formed in 1967. organisation outside CYC.
We plan a full weekend of events over the first
May bank holiday.
I hope you know that you can pick up a printed
copy of the magazine from the office when you
2017 will be a good year to be a member of
visit. As an extension of this, and for those
CYC. I do hope you will continue your
who do not visit the club very often, we will post
membership and if you are not already on
you a copy each month for a fee of £20 per
monthly direct debit you might consider it as it year. Please let the office know if you would
does spread the load over the year.
like this and we will deduct £20 from your card
to cover the cost.
We are always delighted to welcome your
boating friends as members and you will
New Year is approaching fast and you will have
benefit from £50 on your card as a reward.
seen we have kept the New Year’s Eve party
price down this year to encourage as many
I know many of you have skills you use in your people as possible to celebrate at CYC.
everyday lives that could benefit CYC when we
are carrying out projects. As part of the renewal Please come and enjoy the club over the
package that we are about to send out we will festive season.
invite you to tell us about these skills so that we
can build up a skills bank of members.
Best wishes,
Also, for a number of you we do not know your
date of birth so we cannot include you in the
loyalty scheme, which is driven by age. We will

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