Faces of Hout Bay Yacht Club

L-R: Thelma, Yoalin, Verna, Wayne

These good folk (also patient, hardworking and amazingly tolerant) are the friendly souls you will meet in the club bar. Most have been with the club for many many years! It would more appropriate to say the furniture is part of the staff in fact!

Thanks to Peter Adamo for the pic.

Faraway sneaks out of the harbour on Friday afternoon!

The race was on Wednesday Chris! Just as well we didn't wait!

left-click for a larger pic!

Tonight's Friday Night Draw now up to R3400!!!

Be there! Hosts of other prizes and great pub fare! What a great way to end the week! You could be rich and famous (a bit!) - and living on your own island by next week!

The Drifters

After a great run out towards Kommetjie last night in 20-30 knots and flat seas, there was absolutely no wind in the bay to get home. Enigma and Nandi are seen here under power of their iron topsails, while Quest is coming in courtesy of the tide, a bit of genoa, and wishful thinking. Roy can see this all from his house - albeit in fading light (thanks for the pic!)

Boet and Swaer . . .

Check at these two. Robin and Dick trying to impress the ladies last Wednesday night. Apologies for poor picture quality - it was taken with an old cellphone in poor light. Be grateful it didn't have sound . . .

Are we safe from Climate Change?

Roy took this pic in the harbour yesterday of the high tide. Its only about half a meter below the quay! Best you sell your cars and motorboats right away and buy a sailboat. Maybe thats what Noah had in mind, last time we had a serious case of rising damp . . .

Later the same day . . .

Spring High, Spring Low (sweet chariot?!)
The previous post shows the idyllic calm conditions this morning at spring low. This is what it looked like at 17:00 later in the day   . . .

Sammy's favourite spot - never mind the weather . . .

Hout Bay at Spring Low Tide

Can there be anywhere nicer than Hout Bay on a Monday morning at spring low tide? This morning the low tide was 0.1m above LAT (lowest astronomical tide). This afternoon at 15:46 it will peak at 2.01m. Thats quite extreme. The low tide provides a fantastic beach to walk on . . . .

Rajun Cajun!

Once again thanks to Roy for the pic!

Now you see him now you don't! Most of you would know Tony and the crew of Rajun Cajun. After a good long visit to Hout Bay Tony has become part of the furniture. Not everyone knows that Tony spent almost all his time here devoted to selfless and charitable causes (when he wasnt busy with music!). Such is the life of cruisers - always moving on - in this case having recruited Lyn Rattle aboard as first mate (my ex neighbour). A few miles out of Hout Bay  they suffered a small computer error so here they are heading back to fix it. They have promised to send a emails along the way which I shall post on this website as they come!

Friday Winners!

Are you a Friday winner? Charles Howell won R5400 last week in the Friday draw because he was there! Poor old Robert Fine (on the other hand) has had his name drawn twice already but failed to collect because he wasn't there! Is he the luckiest or unluckiest bloke on the block?

Cheerful Charlie is the one on the right!

Be there tonight and you too could be famous!