From the BMC's Board of Directors we want to send all members and friends our Season Greetings and our best wishes of a Venturous 2008!

Yesterday we received the new owners of Banjer ANNE-MARIE as a member of the Club. We want to welcome them from this pages and wish them a long and happy ownership and an enjoyable BMC membership!
The new owners are from Holland and will bring their Banjer from Italy to her new home waters there. So the number of members in Italy reduce to only 1 and number in Holland increase to 22.
We also want to heartly say farewell to the former owners, Karl and Anne-Marie and wish them all the best for the future.
The Board.

On August the 17th, 2006, we received our member numer 91, from France. Banjer is named PHILEAS, from 1968, probably  hull numer 5, so one of the very first to be produced. She's an owner's version, with personalized layout and a 100 HP Perkins.
Although the Banjer is for sale (See the ad at the Buy & Sell page), we received her ownerin the mean time as a member.
Be very welcome aboard!

   On June 27, 2006 we received the owner of "TO BE" as a new member of the BMC. He has owned and lived aboard his Banjer since 1974.  Be very welcome on board!

Dear fellow members and BMC friends,

Next year we'll enjoy our 3rd Banjers Gathering and BMC Meeting in the cities of Einkhoven and Medemblik, within the coasts of the Ijselmeer, Holland.

A new ocasion to meet old friends, visit other member's Banjers, chat around, taste warming drinks and, generally speaking, enjoying life, which is one of the main 'reasons to be' of our Club. Salty members, newcomers and even friends maybe looking for their own Banjer, will have here an excellent opportuinity to have a close look to all details and solutions the creativeness and ingenuity of owners has achieved with the passing of time.

Don't miss this opportunity. Even if you are in far away waters, coming to Holland in summer time is a most rewarding experience and the ocasion of bringing together a dozen or more Banjers, only happens every third year. And it's good to see each other's faces from time to time, as mostly relationship between fellow members is done by e-mail only.

Take your time, organize yourself and join the Gathering! We'll be waiting for you!

Keep on Banjering.

The Board.

Dear BMC fellow members,

We are now accepting links to some web pages from services or equipment manufactures who offer an special discount or other benefits to BMC members. Find those providers at a dedicated section in a new "Conveniences" page within the private pages of our web site.

Anyhow, the Club and its Board doesn't endorse the quality or accuracy of those services or equipments, so carefully check and make yourself sure, prior to purchase. We'll try to be careful with the choosen providers, but this is not a guarantee. Please inform me if some of you find an specific provider who does not fulfill the expentacies.

I hope this service may be useful to some of you.

Keep on Banjering,

Commodore Guillermo.

We received today the new owner of TASMAN OF GDANSK, in Malta. We want to gladly welcome him to the BMC and present our best wishes of long and pleasant sailings with her! Nice winds, John!

We also want to heartly say farewell to Richard, former owner, who now parts for another rhumbs. So long, Richard!

The Board.

   We received yesterday a new member from Denmark, a country now with a five strong members number!

Banjer is named "BANJER" and is number 8 from 1969. She will have membership #88.

Be very welcome on board!

Our fellow member Baard Vetteren, in Norway, has been designated as the new Scandinavian Delegate, to help the Club to keep in close contact with members there. There are already seven registered Banjers in the zone, and number is slowly growing.

On behalf of all members we want to deeply thank Baard for his availability, and wish him a good luck in his task!

Members may find his contact data at the private pages.

The Board.

Some underground movements have become to take place regarding 200 Banjers Gathering and BMC Meeting. Whispering words talk about alternative locations: Antwerp, Holland? Dover in the UK? Dunkirk, France....?

Other windy words talk about a desirable Banjers two days Rally, where crews can show up their great handling and navigating skills...

Why don't you let us know about your feelings and ideas?

Let us know!

The Board.

We received today the new owners of HESTIA (Ex-Zeehond) as new members of the BMC. We want to welcome them on board on behalf of all BMC members.

The Board.

The new owners of Barcarolle, a very nice couple from Denmark, became members of the Banjer 37 Motorsailer Club. From here we want to heartly welcome them  on board.

BMC members can find particulars about the new members at the private pages.

The Board.

Unfortunately the editing and publishing of the CD will be once again delayed, now owning to odds. Oscar Alstede's computer with all BMC data has been infected by a virus, and information seems to have been lost. He will try to download all info from his personal web pages and BMC web pages and remake the thing. He talks about four weeks hard work for it, but it will probably be much more, as there is a lot of stuff...

Let's keep on being patient once again.

The Commodore. 

We received these days two new members, with memberships numbers 86 and 87. Banjers are:

MY HAVEN (Ex-VAYA CON DIOS), hull number 81 from 1974. Owner from the UK, will keep the Banjer in Holland.

ANAS II, hull number 63, from 1972. Owner from Sweden.

Interested members may find contact data at the private pages.

The Commodore.

BMC Members: The time to close the editing of the CD is coming quickly. If you want your info, photos, and so on to be updated at the CD, contact our Secretary as soon as possible.

Help the Club to make this first CD a milestone! Give your proactive collaboration!

Thanks in advance

The Board.

  We ask members' help to contact the owners of Banjers: ITAPARICA, MERDEKA, RESPITE, ENTERPRISE, HUNTRESS & LILO, as we have no means of contacting them nowadays.

The BMC Board of Directors.

Banjers List, with hull numbers, year of production, etc., has been updated at the private pages. We'd appreciate the collaboration of members to keep it as most updated as possible. Please visit the page and tell me about your Banjer data missing, if some.

If you do not know the hull number and production year, because there is not a plaquette by the side of the helman's position, maybe you can find a Lloyd's hull registering plaquette (Eista produced boats). It should be located astern, moulded in the hull laminate inside the helm's stock lazarette, on the starboard side.

Thanks in advance.

The Commodore.

Our Secretary is working hard in making the CD with all BMC available data about Banjers. You can have a look to the first approach of the CD cover in: http://www.banjer.nl/scan0001.jpg

We expect to have the CD ready and available to members by the end of November (hopefully!). You can have a look at the progress in: http://www.banjer.nl/About%20Banjer%20CD.htm

If you are a member interested in getting a copy, please contact our Treasurer, Ton Koot, to put your name in the list. This will help us to determine the number of copies required.

We ask BMC members to contact the Secretary or the Treasurer, to actualize their home addresses, etc., to allow for the CD having the most accurate data.

The BMC Board of Directors.