Around 25 boats full of ybw forum members and their families met at Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight this weekend for a get together and beach barbeque. The weekend was a great success and also helped to raise money for the RNLI.

A raffle was held with prizes donated by our marine magazines and a cheque was presented to the RNLI for £41 this week.

Here are some comments from our forums from those who attended:

“A great weekend, almost an adventure, and it was lovelly to put some faces to names. A great bunch bar none, my special thanks to Talbot, both Mr and Mrs, who took in a shaken stranger, and fed and watered him as one of their own.”

“Very much agree that Nigel deserves a very BIG vote of thanks. I was particularly impressed by how many people actually turned up considering weather conditions were slightly windy with the odd wave”

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