{"id":1382,"date":"2022-08-23T20:09:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T19:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=1382"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:17:40","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=1382","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Click on one of the buttons below for more information on SOCA&#8217;s History<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=13727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Past Commodores<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=16812\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Commodore Charities<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=1586\">SOCA Fleet<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=15839\">People &amp; Events<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=13828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SOCA First Minutes 1984<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=17654\">Soca Committee Minutes<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>SOCA<\/strong> will have been in existence for 40 years in 2024!!!<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Its first formal meeting was on the 8th March 1984.<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13909 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Minutes-0-11th-Jan-84-300x102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"167\"><\/span>Articles will be added to this page tracing the history of the association over that period.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions on what can be added. Please contact using the following email <a href=\"mailto:commodore@socasailing.org.uk\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto:commodore@socasailing.org.uk\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">commodore@socasailing.org.uk <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 36px;\">40 Years of SOCA <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><br><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15873 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/SOCA-Burgee-40th-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"168\">SOCA<\/strong> held<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 28px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"> a&nbsp; <strong>celebration lunch on&nbsp; the 13th of April 2024<\/strong> in place of the normal 2024 Fitting Out Lunch to mark the <span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>40th Anniversary<\/strong> <\/span>of its inception. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=15685\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Click here to be taken a post and pictures of the event,<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Page Last updated on 4<sup>th<\/sup> September 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on one of the buttons below for more information on SOCA&#8217;s History SOCA will have been in existence for 40 years in 2024!!!Its first formal meeting was on the 8th March 1984.Articles will be added to this page tracing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=1382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":190,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1382","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17659,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1382\/revisions\/17659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}