From Southdown to a Millbrook Mooring is 2500 miles!  Yes Keith took the long way round to his mooring last year.

“Watershed”, a Westerley Konsort Duo spent the winter at Voyager and was launched in April 2011.

She arrived on her mooring in August, having turned left out of Plymouth Sound and going the long way round the top of Scotland.

Keith Bousfield [ our newest committee member] explained that he did not want his nice new coat of antifouling to get any Millbrook mud on it and thought the best way to avoid this was to keep afloat. It worked too, she was dried out on the Camel Estuary near Padstow after 15 weeks and was still clean with the mearest trace of weed and not a single barnacle! 12 weeks on a Millbrook mooring restored her to the usual condition although the barnacles were smaller than last year.

The weather in the north was “disappointing” but it was much the same everywhere so she might have spent much of the time on the mooring anyway, which would have been preferable to several Scottish anchorages in Force 9/10.

Highlight of the voyage? The sight of Rame Head as she approached her mooring at last.

Quite a feat.

Dear Member,

At the AGM of Millbrook Lake Mooring Association Ltd held on 14th December 2011 the membership present voted for the following motions by a clear majority.

A.  This meeting agrees in principle to a donation to the Responder Services in 2012

 

B.  This meeting agrees to consult the whole membership via a covering letter with the licence application form. Option to vote for £1000, £2000, or £3000 donation. To abide by majority decision.

The principle of such a donation was set out in the 2002 constitution of the Millbrook Lake Mooring Association and reiterated in the objectives of the MLMA Ltd when set up in 2005.

In presenting these motions to the AGM,the Board felt that the Association had sufficient funds at this time to contemplate such a gesture.

We ask therefore all licenced members to tick the appropriate box giving your view on the exact amount to be donated. Please return your slip signed [ so that each vote can be accounted for] with the licence application form.

The amount donated will thus be decided by the majority vote of all eligible members.

Thankyou for your participation. If you wish for further clarification please email chairman@mlma.co.uk

Yours sincerely

Charles Clements

Chairman

MLMA Ltd