Welcome To The
Brentwood Model Yacht & Power Boat Club
Brentwood Model Yacht & Powerboat Club
was founded on the 1st July 1988, with the main interest being model
yachts. This was the time when the ‘One Metre’ yacht was
in its infancy and was becoming popular in Britain as a good quality,
competitive yacht. The ‘One Metre’ was then chosen as the
‘Club Yacht’, thus enabling competitions to take place throughout
the season at least twice a month.
Membership was very limited at this time, so the Ace
Powerboat Club members were invited to join together with the yachts,
making the rent of the lake easier to afford and enabling the facilities
to be used to their fullest. In the fullness of time ‘Scale’
modelers also joined the club and the membership became sectioned into
Yachting, Multi-racing and Scale. Each section of the club has a Secretary
who is responsible for planning and running events. The club also has
a Chairman, General Secretary and Treasurer who are responsible for
the general administration of the club.
In recent years the Scale Section members decided they
would like a smaller , more sheltered lake for their use. After much
searching a suitable site was found close-by. But the area was very
overgrown and the water itself was barely visible. However, the intrepid
scale members did not let this deter them and on many Sundays a work
party set to and cleared the undergrowth. Once a path was cleared, the
farmer, whose land the lake was on, helped immensely by felling dead
trees and scooping out much of the leaf mould in the lake itself. The
farmer also provided a hard-core car park and the members erected two
buildings, one for refreshment facilities, the other for male and female
toilets. The lake measures about 25x23 metres and is situated near the
centre of Mountnessing village.
The original lake that the Yacht and Multi sections
use is situated on a farm adjacent to the Mountnessing roundabout at
junction 12 of the A12, and is about 4.5 miles from junction 28 of the
M25. It measures approximately 180x70 metres, with a depth of around
six metres in the centre. There is a hard-core car park and male and
female toilets on site.
New members are always welcome as are any visitors.
Our fee structure reflects our desire to encourage families to become
members, as we believe the growth in our hobby will come from interesting
the younger members at an early age.
The Membership Year begins on January 1st and for further details, please
do not hesitate to contact;
Derek Coleman (The General Secretary)
Tel: 01708 459062
Email: derek.coleman1@btopenworld.com
