News from Sheer Tenacity!

Rod and Mary are still doing the dream in all those exotic locations, and driving me slowly crazy. Read their latest blogpost at http://svsheertenacity.blogspot.com/.

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Here they are with Jeremy and Yvonne - from SV Jervon, all looking rather well! Rod must have taken the pic.

New Stuff listed in the Online Boat Jumble

Sailing charts, loads of boat spares from a Roberts 45, and mooring #74.

See it all here!

Wow what a day in Hout Bay!

Normally the post is called Sunday Sailing results! But this was "The perfect day"! Light steady breeze, and the sea as flat as a pond! Some of the cruisers had elected to stay the night out in the bay - in fact the last three nights in some cases - so we used one of them as a race mark as well. The harbour was crawling with tourists, icecreams, seagulls and a few fishermen. And traffic . . .

 Faraway, Aquamaniac wafted in within seconds of each other at the finish, after trading places themselves and Megafreight for the entire race.

View onboard Quest, showcasing the fierce conditions . . .

Anyway:
1 Megafreight
2 Aquamaniac
3 Nandi
4 Quest
5 Faraway

Scenes of HBYC!

Of all the things that happen in front of HBYC, we have had Motorbike Brigades, Dutch Supporters and now a collection of Impisti! Thats a new term for people who like Hillman Imps!

These guys happened to be doing a photoshoot of Roy's car as he wandered back to it. I would bet they are European tourists as these cars weren't that well know here, but in fact are amazing vehicles - this one is a 1967 Singer Chamois. Designed by ex-racing drivers Tim Fry and Mike Parks (F1 - Ferrari), they are astonishingly powerful little cars, with loads of technology for their time. As it happens Roy is rebuilding a race version of one of these - its quite something to see - all about it on www.ckdboats.blogspot.com

Sunday Slides in Simonstown

The 82' Gaff Schooner "Coracle", a replica of the "America" wich first won the America's Cup, shows her stuff in Simon's Bay on Sunday morning! This vessel is made of a compsite including Bamboo and GRP.

Further up the hill in Simonstown, just beind the station in fact, is "Astra" - a beautiful Tumlaren restored a few years back by Roy McBride. Here she sits on a trailer evidently having a scrub etc.

News from Cruisers

Interesting news received from our cruisers:

• Rod and Mary on SheerTenacity
• Steve and Renata on Dixi-Rollar
• Taffy, Shirley and Rubbish on "The Road"

I am sure they would all like some news back us too . . .!

More Sunday Sailing.

It was blooming cold last Sunday - and blowing a fair stinker to start with. But 5 boats arrived - and we set out after some good coffee at Muriel's. Pat - after toying with the idea of taking out Shosholoza singlehanded - relented and sailed on Megafreight. That left Nandi, Quest and Savannah - singlehanded for the latter two. We exited the harbour with 20-25kts, and then all of a sardine ther was nothing . . . A short course followed - in which Nandi was first around the first mark - big suprise - but Megs charged back and cleaned us all up as usual. Quest and Savannah had to retire as the wind died completely - but we had  a result in the end - a great lunch - and a good day out anyway . . .
Result
1. Megafreight
2. Nandi
3. Quest and Savnnah (DNF)

Another Mark goes AWOL

This time it was "Ore-Jetty". The recent North Westers took it off the rope and it washed up high on the rocks at Tintswalo luxury lodge.Until today I had never been there but what a nice place! It was an absolutely beautiful day to be knocking about on boats - but quite a tricky exercise nevertheless. The Mark - a hige steel sphere - was eventually towed off and is now safely back in the harbour. Unofrtunately no pics! Thanks to Roy and Immanuel (Marina Staff) who helped retrieve it - next thing is to lay it again at the usual position!

HBYC Forthcoming Attractions

Sailing on Sunday 19 June is cancelled due to Fathers Day, the Rally, and bad weather . ..

Fathers Day Special: Treasure Hunt

• Sunday 19 June 0900 to approx. 14h00
• Course Designer and Quiz Master – the famous Paul Pigneguy
• Prize Giving to be held over lunch.
• Entry Fee R10/head.
• Participation in meal of the day at R50/head optional.
• Please book at bar before Monday evening as numbers are limited and we are require numbers for catering purposes. 

Trivial Pursuit

• Thursday 23 June 19h30
• Entry R30/head, Meal of the day optional at R50/head.
• Please ensure to pre-book at bar as numbers are limited

Sunday Race Results

We started in ideal conditions at 3:08 with a fair turnout of 6 boats. By 3:30 most of us were being powered by the tide alone., and Quest was first to bail before being washed onto the rocks at Fish-on-the-Rocks. By 3:45 we had 4 DNFs, leaving Hot Ice and Megafreight to finish, who seem to be able to make their own wind. Conditions however, were great for a day out in the open, and a good few beers made it onto the club deck soon after. More next week . . . .

1 Hot Ice
2 Megafreight