Antigua Yacht Club
News & Updates
Just got back from Miami with great results from Orange Bowl Regatta
Radial Laser Class, 98 competitors
Rhone finished 11th overall loosing his 10th place on last race with OCS !!
Vincent finished 29th ,he had 1 bad day, but still super result, last year he finished 80th
4.7 Laser Class, 28 boats
Jalese finished 14th overall .
Rocco finished 4th overall with last day 3 races all FIRST
Very proud of Everybody!!
Paola Vittoria
Social Media Guide Lines
This guide is intended for all the Antigua Yacht Club members in order to improve our communication, social engagement, global awareness and marketing abilities using social media.
Social Media is about being social. As you and I would be if we met up in the club, we might chat a little about the High Tide series, but we also might chat about the latest problems we have with our engine or the best way to teach our crew how to trim sails, we might chat about our favourite anchorage in Antigua and then get onto discussing the America's Cup World Series..... well that is what social media is about. It is not solely to put adverts re the Yacht Club in front of its members on a daily basis. AYC is now actively using social media with the aim of communicating with our members, attracting new members, increasing the use of our facilities and improving our revenue stream. To do that WE NEED YOU! The Board's goal is to build a better, brighter Club for the members. Please help us.
Please could you make sure that if you are a Facebook, Twitter or Google+ user, that you click the links below and follow us on all our channels.
Facebook has an algorithm that it uses to calculate who should see our posts. What this means is if you actively like, comment or share our posts, there will be a much higher chance of you seeing our posts in your timeline. If you wish to ensure you see all our posts, the best way to do this is to click the little down arrow next to the "LIKED" button on our page and then click notifications, you will then be given some options to select which posts you want to see, I would suggest all.
If you have friends who you think would be interested in our content you could also invite your friends to "LIKE" our Facebook page. To do this you need to be logged into your profile, then enter "Antigua Yacht Club" in the search bar to bring up our page, when you do that you should see on the left side bar an option to invite your friends to follow our page.
If you use Twitter please retweet our posts when you see them. Sharing is caring so lets get the message out there about our great Yacht Club and all the events we host.
If you attend any club activity or are out sailing and take some great shots which you would like to share on our page, please feel free to post to the page or send to Brian Turton at miramarsailing@icloud.com who will be our social media liaison with SPC Marine Marketing which is essentially me... Heidi Frith. Thank you.
Dear Members, the following email was sent to us. Please assist if you can.
REQUESTING A YACHT TO STAY ON AND LOOK AFTER FROM 18TH JANUARY FOR TWO WEEKS
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Subject: Query From: "Sue Verschoyle" <s.verschoyle@ntlworld.com> Date: 12/10/15 2:47 pm To: ayc@yachtclub.ag
Hello
A friend of mine suggested I email your club as I am coming out to Antigua at the end of January. I race with a yacht belonging to the Royal Southern Yacht Club in the Hamble, UK by the name of In X Celsis, skipper Peter Jones. I am specifically coming out to watch my son film the Talisker Atlantic Challenge rowers finishing their race in your harbour at or around the end of January.
This is a long shot but I’m looking for a place to stay and what better place than on an empty yacht and I am writing to offer to look after one if there is a request from any of your members. Or in fact, I am good crew as well and have over 10 years’ experience racing, have done 2 Fastnets and a number of off shore races. Is it possible to put up a notice regarding my email?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sue Verschoyle
07966 970454
UK
The following members were elected at the Annual General Meeting held at the Antigua Yacht Club on Tuesday 17th November 2015.
2016 Board of Directors
Commodore - Franklyn Braithwaite
Vice-commodore - Clare Leader
Rear-commodore - Ashley Rhodes
Dinghy Captain - Paul Eldridge
Classic Yacht Captain - Antony Maidment
Fleet Captain - Sandy Mair
Power Boat Captain - Steve Carson
Secretary - Paola Vittoria
Treasurer - Janie Easton
House & Grounds Director - Steve Spanis
Social Secretary - Robbie Cook
Director at Large - Brian Turton
News and Updates
E-mails are our number one source of providing members with News, Updates and Reminders of Upcoming Events etc.
If you are no longer receiving AYC e-mails, it could be due to several reasons:
1. YOUR MAIL BOX IS FULL - a very common problem, please delete unwanted messages.
2. YOU HAVE A SERVER PROBLEM - please check with your service provider.
3. YOU RECENTLY CHANGED YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND DID NOT INFORM AYC - The most common problem.
4. YOU unsubscribed from the mailing list - please contact the office and we will assist to resolve this.
If you have changed your email address, please contact me ( Nesie ) at the link below and provide your new email address.
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