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• NEPTUNE 80 Rally June 1-9 2024 

  Normandy France

  Briefing  Friday 8 March at the Fareham Sailing and Motor Boat Club, 1930hrs

  I just received a request to post the NEPTUNE 80 Rally Flotilla as seen today.

  You will notice that there are a few spaces left available,  so if you would like to join in,  please email me at

  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we can start the ball rolling.

  John Gunn and George Thomson,  I have you both still on the list as I am hopeful you can both join in.

  There will be a briefing on Friday 8 March at the Fareham Sailing and Motor Boat Club, starting around 1930.  All are welcome.  There will be a paper hand out on the evening

  I will be sending you all a briefing notes file on completion by email, including any Q&A we will have had on the evening.  I will also post the information on the FOA website and pass it to Richard and Clare for proper inclusion on FSMBC website.

  I intend promulgating a proper Oporder NEPTUNE80 at the end of April (latest) which will have the appropriate forms and links, plus tidal information and anything else I can add.

  Barbara and I had a great week visiting Ouistreham and Caen, talking with officials in both cities and of course the marina manager for Ouistreham and Bassin St Pierre (Caen) Marinas.

  We also went and had a session with the Colonel in Command of the Calvados region Gendarmerie.

  To round it off we then had a pleasant meeting with Caen YC who are looking forward to seeing us all.  

  They have small fleet of racing boats which they use on the Canal de Caen and they have invited us to race with them on the second weekend,  along with a reception at the club.

  There will be more to announce but I am waiting on confirmation from the authorities.

  Suffice it to say that there will be loads to do and see and ‘discretionary time’ for you (ie I am not trying to fill every day with activities.)

  One thing came to light:  having been guided by our friends in Caen and have met and spoken to all the RIGHT people, it revealed that no other sailing association has taken the effort to do this.  I have been working on this for the last 18 months and I think we achieved more being on the ground doing the face to face thing over 5 days than the rest of the time working on this.

  Anyway,  below is the latest list for NEPTUNE 80.

  Please could you help me fill in any gaps.   

  So if you could let me know:

  1        If you would like to attend the briefing on Friday 8 March at 1930 at FSMBC.  

  The Boathouse
  Lower Quay
  Fareham
  Hants
  PO16 0RA

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  2     If you would like a battle flag (small,  90 x 50cm £20,   large £135)

  3    Confirm you are happy to share email and phone number

  4     Fill in any gaps in the table (or provide me with the information to do so please.)

   

  Regards

  Steve White

  NEPTUNE 80 Organiser

  07702 706874

  Your attention is drawn to the terms and conditions applying to FOA Rallies and Rendezvous 

  https://www.fisherowners.org/foa-events-deeper/item/foa-rallies-small-print-stuff-para-8

   

  No	Boat Name	Skipper	Departing from	Mate Names
  1	Wight Mistress	Steve  White	Isle of Wight	Barbara White
  2	EX-REA	Mike Smyth	Fareham Creek	Alan Stewart
  3	Witsend	Rod Cooper	Fareham Creek
  4	Set Free	Richard Payne	Fareham Creek	Claire Payne
  5	Aldebaran	Ted Middleton	Fareham Creek
  6	Legasea	Les  May	Fareham Creek	Deborah May
  7	North Star	Alan Ward	Titchmarsh Walton on Naze	Chris Town
  8	JoJac	Andrew Thompson	Torquay
  9	Tarquin	Derek Colman	Chichester	Helen
  10	Fishbones	Geoff Brown	Guernsey	Marie
  11	Serendipity	Mark Jones	Fareham Creek	Romy Jones
  12	Genie	George Thompson	Fareham Creek	Laurie Curle
  13	Mari-Louise	John Gunn	Fareham Creek