Commodore's Evening 1998

Lee-on-the-Solent Sailing Club - 6 June 1998

Key points

Commodore (Stephen Parry) welcomed over 60 people, including flag officers of Local Sailing clubs to an Italian evening

The main purpose of the evening was to encourage communication between sailing clubs and to officially launch the club website

An update talk and demonstration of Sailing on the Internet by Richard Phillips included the Lee-on-the- Solent Sailing Club website and the following:

Main sailing website (www.sailing.org)

International Sailing information -
calendar of sailing events around the world,
news and links to major regatta reports,
sailing clubs on WWW
sailing schools on WWW 
international classes plus links to national class websites
and much more through the menu system on ISAF website.

Major events
Americas Cup - New Zealand 2000 with video clips and links to competitors websites

UK Clubs
BUSA (British Universities Sailing Association)
List of UK Sailing Clubs on the WWW
List of Solent Sailing Clubs (Hampshire coast and Isle of Wight, UK) with links to their websites
Ocean Youth Club

Classes
Boats sailed at Lee with links to Class websites - Lee, the main base for the UK FD Class is hosting the FD Worlds in 1999
Examples of other good international dinghy websites - 505, 470, Optimist

Special Interest websites - a few examples
Americas Cup 1995
BMIF (British Marine Industries Federation)
Crewseekers International
Royal & Sun Alliance Challenge (Tracy Edwards)
RNLI (Royal national Lifeboat Institution)I
RYA (Royal Yachting Association)
Weather (Southampton)
Whitbread around the world race which finished in May 1998  - including action packed video clips of final approaches to Southampton, photo gallery, boats, results and news
Yachting World Newsroom

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