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Kraken

From: Dublin Bay

Registered: 2011-02-24

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Annual Luncheon and General Meeting 2010

The Annual Luncheon and General Meeting this year was the most select in the association's history with only 15 members and guests in attendance.

The photographs were taken in the Commodore's Room of the London Corinthian Rowing and Sailing Club. We enjoyed an excellent 3-course meal served by Beejal and her assistant in very pleasant surroundings.

The London Corinthian is on the Middlesex bank of the Thames just upstream from Hammersmith. The association has used it for the last twenty years, since the association was founded in fact, because of its good public transport links and its central location.

Jenny Cosker, John Cade and Olive Hathaway

John Tyer, Barrie Marson, Peter and Carol Hunt

Wann and John Sadler, Anne Grubb, John and Gillian Walker and Brian and Dawn Smith

Once luncheon was over, we moved downstairs to the Captain's Room, where coffee was provided and prepared ourselves for the General Meeting.

After our Chairman, Anne Grubb, had welcomed us to the meeting and the apologies for absence had been listed, the Officers gave their various reports starting with our Treasurer and the state of the finances. There was nothing too contentious and the meeting proceeded quite rapidly.

As anticipated, there were no volunteers to fill any of our vacant posts and so the Election of Officers concluded with everyone continuing to do the job they had previously held.

The Victoria Cup, for the first Victoria Yacht in the Round the Island Race, was not presented this year.

Olive Hathaway spoke on behalf of herself and Barrie Marson, as the judges of the Cruising Log Competition. It had been the most difficult competition to judge but they had decided the winner was John Corden with his Round Britain and Ireland Blog.

John Walker, ably assisted by Gillian, then gave us a superb visual presentation, showing many photographs of four Shadows as they made their way from the upper reaches of the Thames to the rough tidal stretch from the Pool of London down to Limehouse Basin to attend our historic rally earlier this year.