The Broom Owners Club are an independent and non-commercial association of people with at least one thing in common - we all own Broom boats.
Anyone who owns/part-owns any boat produced by C.J. Broom & Sons - young or old, large or small, sea-going or strictly non-tidal . . . and that applies equally to the boat or you!
If you're proud of your BOC membership you'll want to fly it from your flagstaff so get one of our double sided burgees or house flags to adorn your mast.
We also have caps, ties, clothing and a new club pin badge.
C J Broom & Sons Ltd, the boat-building arm of Broom Boats, is to go into insolvency with the loss of up to 70 jobs. Broom Boats Ltd, which operates the Brundall marina, boat service operation and brokerage will continue to operate as normal retaining 50 employees.
The action is part of a major re-organisation following the companies’ sale to Mark Garner and Akis Chrisovelides six weeks ago.
Mark Garner, Broom Chairman said “New Broom boat sales currently are weak. After several years of major boat-building losses amounting to more than a million pounds, we have had to call a halt to boat-building for the time being. We hope to be able to resume this part of the business in due course”.
C J Broom will regrettably not now be exhibiting boats at Southampton Boat Show, due to open on September 10. Mr Garner stressed all other parts of the Broom organisation – the marina, brokerage, repairs, refurbishment and waterside diesel, etc., was unaffected.
Last Updated ( Wednesday, 01 September 2010 15:33 )
Five boats make Dordrecht rendezvous
Written by Louise Busby
Monday, 30 August 2010 12:30
Although our 'Rest of the World' region does not yet have its own coordinator, with several boats visiting Holland from the UK this summer, it seemed a shame not to try to get them all together. In the end five boats made it to the rendezvous in Dordrecht on the 6th August, with several others having already committed themselves to cruising elsewhere in Holland, and our Dutch member already half way through the French canals. Boisterous Mistress, Lady Alison and La Strega met at Strijensas for a pre-rendezvous barbeque the evening before, then joined up with Bonny Rose and Lucille at the Koninklijke Dordrechtsche Roei and Zeil Vereeniging on the Friday afternoon.
We have booked the Kings Arms in Cookham for Saturday 16th October. Meet in the bar at 6.30pm for dinner at 7pm.
If the weather and river conditions allow will will be mooring on Bell Rope Meadow.
Spaces are filling fast, as the members are talking to each other. So if you are interested either email me at
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or telephone on 01277 350674 or 07957 332515.
Keith
Haslar Rally and Soton Boat Show Dinner
Written by Frank Hawkins
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 09:19
The Southern and Western Region have just had a blustery but very enjoyable Rally at Lymington with dinner in the Royal Yacht Club superbly organised by the Stephens and Oldham teams, for which many thanks, we move on to the next events on our Summer Agenda.
1. Firstly there is to be a boat rally at Haslar Marina Gosport on the weekend of 4th and 5th September 2010 being organised by Chris and Dawn Dawson. Please read the details that follows and respond direct to Chris on
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if you are interested in coming - it sounds like a great meeting with a chance to visit a submarine included.
2. There is to be a dinner on the opening evening of the Southampton Boat show Friday 10th September 2010 at the Royal Southampton Yacht Club at Ocean Village Marina. This event is being organised by John and Gill Oldham and importantly we have been restricted to a fixed number of attendees. This means that we will be accepting bookings on a strictly first come first served basis and asking for payments to be made well in advance. Please see below for full details. We are hoping to have a guest ( or guests ) from Broom attending but more details of this later. Please respond to John or Gill by email on:
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if you wish to attend this. (Please note that if you are attending the boat show a ticket booked in advance has a saving of £5 on the first day.)
Martin and Jennifer Broom have handed over the helm of their boat building company to two businessmen from Norfolk. Mark Garner and Akis Chrisovelides will take over as Chairman and Managing Director, with Martin Broom remaining in a presidential capacity.
The new owners have committed to developing the next generation of Broom Boats, in line with customer demand.
