Cleopatra Owners Club New Website

elv_1986

elv_1986

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Hi,

I hope you do not mind me posting a link to the Cleopatra Owners Club. If you feel this post is out of order, then I will understand if you delete it.

We have just fully updated and renewed the website and forum, and are now looking to increase our membership. The current members have managed to gather a wealth of information on Cleopatra's, Including original brochures. We also have a forum, which is free to join, and has regular posters who are more than willing to discuss anything with fellow Cleopatra owners.

We are also in the process of designing a new Burgee and Sticker set. We are hoping to get to the ordering stage very soon.

If your interested in joining, come over and say hi, its all free and we don't bite!

www.mycleopatra.co.uk

Happy boating!

Louis
 
Nobody should mind you posting a link to your site. It all looks very informative. A couple of observations:

1) You ought to change the text from "Welcome to our Redesigned Web Site." to "Cleopatra Owners Club" to help Google index you well.
2) I would remove the email addresses from the Database page before your members get inundated with spam (I assume that you've asked them if they want their details being displayed).
3) I'd add some Google Adwords to the empty space in the left hand column of the home page.

Pete
 
Hi. Nice forum, and good luck with it. I don't know much about Cleopatra's so can't contribute any info, but I liked the pictures of the old Cleopatra factory, which is now Essexboatyards (where I've spent a lot of time lately, that's another story). Did the Barke family buy the place after Cleopatras stopped making boats?

Also nice to see the 46. I didn't realise that the JCL Marauder 46 became the Cleopatra 46.
 
Hi Pete,

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I am just a member who is doing some promoting for the website, so will pass on your suggestions to the owners club owner.
As far as I know all the email address in the database have been approved by the members, but its a good point.

Louis
 
Hi jfm,

I'm not sure if the Barke family bought the place after Cleopatra, finding information on cleopatra's is proving to be extremely difficult! Yes, I was amazed also to find out that the JCL Marauder 46 became the Cleopatra 46, an amazing looking boat in my opinion.

Louis
 
Yes, amazing looking boat the 46. I remember drooling over it as a 10-12 yrs old kid in the mid-late 70s I think, seeing the colour ads for JCL Marauder in MBY, and telling myself one day I'm gonna get one of those!

On your tour of Essex Boatyards did you ask the Barkes for info on Cleopatra? You should ask David Barke Senior, the father of the 4 Barke brothers. He still works at EBY many days a week. He would have been around when the Cleopatras were being built so he's bound to know some history. Just call EBY and ask for him. Nice guy and lots of tales/chat to tell.

As you drive to EBY, about 1 mile before you get there you pass what is now a big farm shed on your right. Just after that golf club. It has on the shed a Tyler Mouldings sign and logo, a bit weathered to say the least. I wonder if that's where Tyler hulls were moulded, yonks ago? Anyone know?
 
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I wonder if that's where Tyler hulls were moulded, yonks ago? Anyone know?
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Tonbridge, by Cannon Lane Bridge. Its a salad wholesalers now. Used to pass it almost daily to and from the school boat club in the rowing season.
 
Ah, thanks. I know where you mean, once did a job in Tonbridge. So the sign in Essex must be someone's memorabilia, nailed to the side of his shed!
 
Hi jfm,

I wasn't a member of the club when they went on the boatyard tour, so I'm not sure if they have spoken to David Barke, I will find out though and if they haven't it might be worth while us giving him a call! Thanks for the info!

Louis
 
I don't have his email, but it'll be firstname at essexboatyards dot com, or "davidb" at essexboatyards dot com. Or call them, Kat will answer the phone, and ask her for his email. To use your expression, they don't bite. The might try to sell you a boat (good on 'em!) but they dont bite :-)

Come to think of it, he's always out and about, hands on, doesn't sit in an office. He might hate email, I dunno. You'd be better calling him I bet, and chatting on the phone. I'm there tomorrow and sunday so I'll likely see him and if so I'll ask him about Cleopatra and the history, and I'll ask him what's the best way for you to chat to him
 
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