Visit the Google Group “Brothers of the Coast” : It is open to everyone! Not only in the USA. Easy to use, stable and you can attach photos, and other files. Do not hesitate to share experiences, questions, concerns and ORZA’s 🙂
This Sunday ZOOM reunited many new attendees from Argentina, Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the USA. We exchanged a lot of stories about Orca’s deterrents, and the Chilean Zaf. Two menu entries were added to BOCUS.INFO: * Link to a store in Galveston where “Spark” got his bendable tricorne suitable to long voyages and out of the country Zafs. Visit the CHANDLERY option. * Link to a Forum/BOC Google group open to enable worldwide brother to interract about Chile, headwear… Please visit it, and send some feedback!
Big Hopper modified some entries in the US Roster “SECOIN (NEW)” tab. These were pulled from each individual table tabs.
One of the objectives was to add the “Mate’s” name, their email and tel . ( * see below)
It was not easy and I suggest you check your own table’s entries and revert to BigHopper252@gmail.com
In the meantime, the PDF version of the spreadsheet has been loaded on the website. Password = what we yell before a rum!
To reduce confusions, the “Live XLS” menu option has been moved to the UTILITIES tab.
I took some liberties because a “0” appears when there was no entry in the table’s tab.
– when the Boat was empty., I assumed the Brother will not have a boat: I deleted the “0”
– When the Brother was lost at sea, I deleted the “0″
-* Technical – for Ken and Ramzi: When the Mate’s name was missing in the table tab, I had to create a formula to show a blank entry instead of a “0”, such as
=IF(Houston!M41>” “,Houston!M41,” “)
– For New York, when the Brother deceased, I manually copied the Captive’s phone# and e-mail in its own entry. I still have to copy/paste/adapt the formulae for the other tables
We received a detailed schedule of the event. The artful original version is available in the Spanish language in the Chile Zaf page.
The following is an automated translation from the original PDF:
Sunday , october 18th From 4:00 PM onward: Reception of Brothers and visitors at Rosa Agustina Hotel Conference Resort & SPA in Olmue city. Room assignments ., 8:00 PM Reception Dinner
Monday , October 19th : 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Breakfast at the hotel, general greetings, review of the program, and coordination. Full days of activities at Rosa Agustina Hotel A day of total relaxation in a big warm pool, SPA, waves pools and many good food . Camaraderie and an ideal moment to get to know each other , exchanging pins and pirates souvenirs. 13 : 00 h . Lunch 3:30 PM: Meeting of the National Captains. Formal attire. Swimming Pools and outdoor activities . 7:30 PM: Dinner 9:00 PM: Party and nice moments Free Attire
Tuesday , october 20th : 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Breakfast at the hotel to energize ourselves for a day filled with fraternity and adventure. 10 : 15 AM : Departure by bus for a field day at Viña Santa Rita . We will learn where and how some of the best wines produced in the country are stored . The tasting will take place at a historic site . There, Doña Paula Jaraquemada protected and defended the patriots from the Royalist army following the battle known as the Disaster of Rancagua . The tour includes a visit to the Andino Museum, whose rich exhibits narrate the history of the pre – Columbian peoples who inhabited the region . The famous Carmenere grape variety was rediscovered at this vineyard. Casual attire with headkerchief . 2:00 PM: Traditional Chilean lunch at Viña Santa Rita, accompanied by a folkloric ensemble that will showcase the most genuine essence of the national soul. 5:00 PM: Return to the hotel by bus. 7:30 PM: D inner and activities at Rosa Agustina Hotel.
Wednesday , october 21 st : 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Rejuvenating breakfast, abundant with conversations about the experiences of the Zafarrancho . 10:10 AM: Departure by bus to witness and admire the discipline and elegance of the Green Squad of the Chilean Carabineros, the nation’s prestigious uniformed police force, demonstrating their high school of horsemanship founded in 1939 and his incomparable canine training. Casual attire with headkerchief . 2:00 PM: Unparalleled maritime lunch at the traditional Chilean restaurant “Ocean Pacific.” 6 :00 PM: Exciting cultural activity at the Aula Magna of the Carabineros School. A concert that will send shivers down the spines of pirates and captives alike. Casual attire with headkerchief . 09 :00 PM: Return to the hotel. Dinner
Thursday , october 22 nd : 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: Early breakfast at the hotel. We will use our pirate telescope to see what awaits us. 9:15 AM: Transfer by bus to the Central Coast of Chile. Visit to Tricao Park in Santo Domingo, home to South America’s largest aviary. 2:00 PM: Zafarrancho dance in Santo Domingo at the Santa María del Mar Club. Wine tasting from the region, a buffet lunch with open bar, lessons in the traditional Chilean cueca dance, and a display of typical Chilean crafts. Casual attire with headkerchief . 8:00 PM: Return to the hotel. 10:00 PM: Dinner and activities .
Friday, october 23 th : 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Breakfast to prepare for the final miles of navigation. 9:45 AM: Transfer by bus to Valparaíso. 11:00 AM: Visit to the Naval School, the academy responsible for training Chilean Navy officers. Tour its facilities, museum, and witness the changing of the guard and a ceremonial parade. Formal attire. 2:00 PM: Snack Visit to “Quinta Vergara”. Most famous amphitheater in Latin America and the Vergara Palace, whose museum tells the story of Viña del Mar. 5:00 PM: Return to the hotel. 8:00 PM: Fellowship activity: dinner and music.
Saturday . October 24th: 08:00 – 10:00 AM: Breakfast | Free day with Nautical activities and Pirate Olympics . Good prizes Warrior ́ s rest , before our great Zafarrancho 7:00 PM – 1:00 AM: Combat Zafarrancho at Rosa Agustina Hotel. Combat attire. Sunday , October 25 th : 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Breakfast at the hotel. 11:00 AM: Official Closing of the 2026 Chile World Zafarrancho . Farewell hugs, final Orzas and boarding of buses to the airport. Post – Zafarrancho activities
Remarks : The Organizing Committee reserves the right to make changes to the program due to force majeure or events that prevent its implementation . Our voyage under the command of our National Captain, ” Espartano ,” is relentless in the Sea of Fraternity . Our spyglass looks over the bow and predicts that our beloved Brotherhood will ravage the coasts of central Chile between October 18 and 25 , 2026 . Prepare your weapons and load your gunpowder, for the Zafarrancho will unite us in an unforgettable Orza that will be sung by all the Pirates of the world .
Soon after its publication, the last issue of “First Watch” is available on the site. You can always scroll through the history of this publication and sort the list by NAME or by DATE.
This web site update is very special. It contains the last edition of the Brotherhood guide. We invite you to visit the Publications menu.
There are many options to access your table: by the menu, by the “Search” option in the right sidebar or by clicking your table name.
At last, we’ll soon be able to physically see each other and talk face-to-face. Check the newly upgraded calendar of events. Please contact Big Hopper to have your Table’s activities added or fill the form below.
Hurricane Dorian shellacked the Bahamas. There are 16 Brothers out there and at least one Best Mate who owns a second residence there., “Per Save” is the Captain of the Bahamas table and his home apparently was destroyed along with much of the other island. The Man O War island community after the destruction of Hurricane Dorian needs the generous outreach and support from all of our worldwide friends, colleagues, and families.
The biggest and most immediate impact you can have right now to help rebuild the island infrastructure is through a monetary contribution to the PERC 501(c)(3) or GoFundMe accounts set up through this link: www.mowrelief.com marked for the “Man-O-War Relief Fund”.
BOCUS.ORG The site was moved to a much larger server that should provide way shorter response time. ( = FASTER ) Some brothers still experience difficulties to open items in the menu. I am still investigating. I suggest as a first strategy to clear your browser cache. Help is here
In line with the decision made by SECOIN, and with immediate effect, Brise-Galets will hand over to brother Americo a.k.a. Jorge Sapiains the management of the Boclist, which today contains 3700 contacts, having started in 1992 with 18 contacts. He wishes to thank all of the brothers who helped him along the way with what turned out to be a very long and tedious process. He wishes brother Americo to make good progress toward what would be the ultimate goal of a worldwide Brotherhood roster. Orza to all of you !!!
An official note about this transfer of assignments appears in the newest Tortuga Post #94. You can access TTP#94 on the official, worldwide publication, hosted by brotherofthecoast.org. This site is pretty secured and you can access it with your username and password. Please visit it often and update your Brother’s info!
As per TTP#94 : Quote: Because this Secretariat is in charge of a Chilean, it implies that Chile must assume the costs of the exercise and therefore SECOIN adopts the existing web with a new design, hosting and domain:secoin.hermandaddelacosta.cl. Big Hopper tried to log in, unsuccessfully. Please follow this blog for more info. Unquote
All comments are more than welcome! Especially updates on how to proceed in the future.
The HELP page is available in the top menu. Written for each table’s scribe and website updater, it should remain a static page. But the “announcement” here created is basically a post. Be sure to visit this page as Big Hopper will give a brief presentation about the web site at the Tybee Zaf’s Captains meeting. Scribes are wholeheartedly invited to attend.
Actively involved in blogging
This post was concurrently created with the Help page itself. There is a PowerPoint presentation “bocus-intro.ppt” we have uploaded and linked to. An Acrobat file is available at bocus-intro.pdf
A separate procedure is coming soon, for easy upload of Tortuga Posts and First Watches, as these documents are presented as a sequentially dated multi-choice list.
From Philadelphia, attending a WordPress web software “camp” and enhancing bocus.org, to enable communication between tables and Brothers, I really benefit from 1880 attendees who rapidly become friends and share the same enthusiasm and sense of sharing. Very Brotherly, I must say!
I miss the Zaf, but I hope some of you will post news and pictures as the Little Pirates parade. Brothers contributors to the site – usually the scribes – who are too far from their main PC to login and write though the “Dashboard”, please enjoy the Postit feature! It enables you to post via e-mail to the email address I did communicate to each table in my last eblast. In case you forgot it, feel free to call me (516) 672 3776. For spam reasons, I can not write it here!
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It is working. You can now email a post to this blog. No need to access the confusing wordpress dashboard, although technically oriented Brothers are more than welcome to use it. Your post will end in a “PENDING” folder on the website and we will have to approve it to publish it. We hope not to get too much spam and have to manually remove multiple emails every day. Please, send us news, photos and feedback! Comment to this post to ask for the procedure!
Friday October 30… 16:00
Having recognized that the “Dashboard” interface is uneasy to use for
each table’s scribe to post news about their ZAF, we are testing new
ways to write posts directly from their usual email system.
– BigHopper-
WordPress NYC Contributors Day
Note: 95 programmers in a room… very exciting!
Big Hopper modified some entries in the US Roster “SECOIN (NEW)” tab. These were pulled from each individual table tabs. 
