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Welcome To The
Brentwood Model Yacht & Power Boat ClubWelcome To TheBrentwood 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 sstructure 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
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