It is very pleasant, in my first ever contribution to the Bulletin, to announce, as general secretary, an increase in membership from 75 to 97. Our new friends’ boats and bases are printed elsewhere in this issue. This encouraging statistic is the result of greater publicity in the Yachting Press and it occurs to me that if every one of us practised a little personal publicity on friends who are not members, the total could not fail to rise very much faster. A major — probably the greatest — asset of ASSOCIATION is that we can share our experiences, miseries or delights with fellow enthusiasts, argue and discuss our likes and prejudices with others who, we hope, know just what we are talking about. Don’t waste the chance to extend your knowledge this way. Members in those places too far to travel to a London evening meeting and who can’t get to a rally get little from the D.C.A. apart from the Bulletin — worth the subscription alone, of course — but it is to these members that my remarks are particularly addressed. Ernest Bailey