Year |
Event |
1950 |
Banbury
Sailing Club formed |
1951 |
Championship
Series for Merlin Rockets started |
1960s |
Clubhouse
moves from southern dam to present site. Old green hut floated
over on pontoons.
Road to new site built with help of Massey Ferguson.
Cricket pavilion bought second hand from Northampton Technical
College and installed with help from Wellesbourne RAF station. |
1974 |
Telephone installed at the club.
Midday Series for Merlin Rockets started. |
| 1976 |
Lockheed
SC members join BSC.
First bar licence granted & bar built in lounge area.
Clubhouse connected to mains water but power supplied by a generator
& lighting by calor gas. |
1978 |
Existing
duty box built.
Norman Parker takes over as Bar Chairman.
Tiger Moth biplane G-AIVW visits in October & again in 1979
& 1980. |
1979 |
Pontoon
formation changed from three spurs leading from bank to a T-shaped
formation.
Electricity provided to club for the first time. |
1981 |
Firefly
National Junior Championship hosted. Robert & Claire
Gallimore finished 4th in under 18s with Felicity & Rebecca
Rawlings 3rd in the under 16s.
First shower unit installed in the Ladies Changing Room. |
1984 |
Southern
dam raised & strengthened by British Waterways.
Menagerie fleet formed. |
1985 |
Polytechnic
Colleges National Team Racing Championships staged over three
days. |
1986 |
Clubhouse
clad in cedar shingles.
Sail training programme started.
Small balcony built at south western end of the clubhouse. |
1989 |
Laser
Fleet formed. |
| 1991 |
Weather
vane presented by George Smith |
1992 |
Ditch
between duty box and slipway filled in by Merlin Rocket fleet
and Merlins move to this area. |
1993 |
Balcony designed & built by Mike Taylor with the help of other
members.
First family fun day run. |
1995 |
Ladies
Changing Rooms refurbished & expanded.
Sailing curtailed in autumn by drought. |
| 1996 |
Upgrade
of electricity supply to 2 phase.
Sailing curtailed in late summer/autumn by drought. |
1997 |
BSC
website designed and launched by Richard Turner.
Power & new stairs provided to duty box.
Bill Mansfield Memorial Trophy race started - won by John Bonete. |
| 1998 |
Autumn Series starts. |
1999 |
Comet
Fleet formed |
2000 |
50th
anniversary celebrated by an Anniversary Ball in June in marquee.
The History of Banbury Sailing Club by John Green published. |
2001 |
Club
closed from mid-March to late May by Foot & Mouth Epidemic.
Bar store and duty box encased in steel plate to prevent
break-ins. |
2002 |
Green
shed (the original clubhouse) lifted off foundations in November
gale. |
2004 |
Green
shed (the original clubhouse) demolished.
BOG entry in Round the Island Race holed and retired but
won subsequent protest.
Men's Changing Room refurbished and the Bar re-built &
expanded. |
2005 |
Lottery
bid successful: Club buys 6 Toppers and 2 405s for Junior Section. |
2006 |
Norman
Parker retires as Bar Chairman having started in 1978.
BW carry out extensive work on western & northern dams to
reface & reinforce the western dam as well as building fishing
platforms into both dams. Very low water levels from November
through to following February. First sections of plastic pontoon
installed. |
2007 |
Very
hot in April but from mid-May onwards very wet with extensive
flooding all over the Midlands. Boddington was full in late
August!
BSC wins Spar, Tiller & Daggerboard competition against Hollowell
& Cransleigh SCs at first attempt. |
2008 |
Central
heating installed. Failed to retain Spar, Tiller & Daggerboard.
Training Cabin installed. Plastic pontoons extended. |
2009 |
Car park and roadways levelled and improved. Club becomes a Volvo
Championship Club. |
