{"id":16943,"date":"2025-04-01T20:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T19:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2025-04-02T10:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:09:01","slug":"soca-2025-fitting-out-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=16943","title":{"rendered":"SOCA 2025 Fitting Out Lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SOCA<\/strong> held it&#8217;s <strong>2025 Fitting Out Lunch<\/strong> at the Cowper Arms on <strong>Saturday 29th March<\/strong>. <br \/>There was a very good attendance with 22 members attending the very convivial gathering.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16944 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250329_140938-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"286\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16945 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250329_140955-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"288\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-16946 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250329_141007-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"289\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16728 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2025-2026-Commodore-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Commodore, Terry,\u00a0 took the opportunity to thank the attendees and outlined the plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?page_id=198\"><strong>SOCA events<\/strong><\/a> over the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16948 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250329-WA0003-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250329-WA0003-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250329-WA0003-768x758.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250329-WA0003-304x300.jpg 304w, https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250329-WA0003.jpg 806w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing Commodore also presented the <strong>Commodore&#8217;s Cup<\/strong> to Peter Sackett who could not attend the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=16690\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 AGM<\/a> <\/strong>where the cup was awarded to him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final action of the Fitting Out Lunch was for Geff to remind the attendees of his choices for the <strong>Commodore&#8217;s Charity for 2024-2025.<\/strong> It was decided to donate <strong>\u00a3400<\/strong>, <strong>\u00a310 for every year of the 40 years SOCA had been in exsistence.<\/strong> This has been split evenly between the <strong>RNLI<\/strong> in recognition of it&#8217;s<strong> 200 year anniversary.<\/strong> With another<strong> \u00a3200<\/strong> being presented to <strong>Grafham Water Sailability.<\/strong> <br \/><strong>Geff<\/strong> presented a cheque to <strong>Pauline<\/strong> who is a long time <strong>SOCA<\/strong> member and key member of <strong>Grafham Water Sailabilty.<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16951 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG-20250329-WA0001-1-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCA held it&#8217;s 2025 Fitting Out Lunch at the Cowper Arms on Saturday 29th March. There was a very good attendance with 22 members attending the very convivial gathering.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Commodore, Terry,\u00a0 took the opportunity to thank the attendees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/?p=16943\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,44,46,43,10,28,29,6,1],"tags":[49,19,13],"class_list":["post-16943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-200th","category-40th","category-agm","category-bosg","category-commodore","category-events","category-rnli","category-soca","category-social","category-uncategorised","tag-49","tag-commodore","tag-soca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=16943"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16974,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16943\/revisions\/16974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socasailing.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}