SSC Commodores Board a brief history

The Commodores Board was commissioned in January 1976 by the then Commodore Joey Dardis who along with his fellow committee member Joe Boylan asked a local man and sailor, Brendan Redden to create a suitable board.  Brendan developed a unique hand carved mahogany surrounded board based on Celtic motifs with two birds on top facing a beautifully carved goats head.

The board took almost a year to complete and, on the 28 January 1977, was unveiled at a specially convened social event in the club (a cheese and wine evening, popular at the time).  Local papers attended and photos appeared in the Fingal Independent.  Brendan Redden also hand painted the Commodores names on the Board starting from 1933 to the then current one in 1977.  Brendan continued adding the subsequent Commodores names until the mid-80s when he left for the UK.  

The inscription job was then taken over for a few years by different people including, local artist Hugh Ryan, Gillian Dunne, and Dave West, among others.  The last Commodore on the original Board was Sam Shiels for his term 2012-2013.  The Board was then basically full as Brendan had used a Celtic anchor style icon for the years of additional service of each Commodore under their names, the longest reign was Joe Shiels from 1936 to 1943 with 7 such icons.  

Last updated 11:53pm on 5 July 2024