JML-3 at MSC Sailing Week!

Great news in from Sam on JML-3 at MSC Sailing Week in Durbs, see it here!

New Red Button WiFi Service at the Club

In order to improve and update our Wi-Fi facilities for members, we have just upgraded our Red Button Wi-Fi Hotspot Service.  The new service offers features which we feel will bring benefit to members of the Club and the Gym.  The intention is that members will be able to work with their email and perform some basic browsing / Whatsapp / BBM type / Wind Guru / UGrib weather forecasting and similar communications while enjoying a coffee or drink at the bar.  We are not intending that users perform huge downloads (eg. video files) as this is something which should be done and paid for at home, although there is a facility to enable this if you are prepared to pay the top-up fees.  See below for further explanations.

The details of this offering are as follows: 

•        The Telkom link is now running at 1MB, a faster speed than the previous 384kB 
•        Each user can log on for free to the Wi-Fi service 
•        Each user is allocated up to 50Mbytes free Internet usage per day 
•        For users who want to use more than 50Mbytes, they can top up at a rate of 15c/Mbyte (that’s R150/Gbyte) 
•        Any top-up is purchased on-line, using your credit card 
•        Note that the top-up rate is now 15c/MByte, a discount from the previous 25c/MByte

  

Just a note for awareness sake - the Telkom lines in Hout Bay are currently suffering from high contention ratios.  In simple terms, this means that the Telkom link to the Internet is shared by many other users in Hout Bay – and although we now have a 1MB link to Telkom, the speed of the service may be affected at different times of the day, dependent on how many other Hout Bay users are using the Internet.  So while our Hout Bay Yacht Club link has a perfectly adequate speed for its intended use, its performance might be degraded from time to time due to capacity challenges at Telkom.

We would appreciate your feedback on your experience of the service so please feel free to drop comments in the suggestion box or send an email to Anne at the office (hbyc@iafrica.com).  We will continue to monitor the performance of the service over the coming months to review what usage it receives and confirm the suitability of the service.

HBYC Youth Sailing team came second in the PnPay Regatta

Sam and his merry team - big smiles! 

Well done guys!

HBYC Trivia night!

A good crowd turned out for a recent pub quiz at the HBYC! 

Thanks to Richard Evans for this pic!

Auction of Marina Berths

The Club is offering four marina berths for auction. See the "For Sale" menu item for details.

Juniors working on JML3

This is our L26, kindly sponsored by Jewish Maritime League, getting some TLC in the club boatyard.Thats Richard Evans on the right, our new RC for Youth Sailing. And if I'm not mistaken that his Dad's crane, courtesy Circe Launches. I think this is the prep stage for the next Lipton Campaign....

The Two Ronnies Stranded at Sea!

Some nautical amusement if you have access to YouTube! Click here.

Welcome home to Ken, Audrey and Fast Forward!!!

Thanks to Roy McBride, always on hand to capture events 

in the marina with his trusty Canon G11.

Ten years away, and a circumnavigation! What a story! Anyway they are back now, right here in the marina, tied up quite close to where they used to be in 2003. They tied up yesterday morning about 10:30 I believe.

No doubt there will be plenty of news as they get time to give interviews etc, and I hope someone persuades them to do a slideshow for us!

By the way, this is one hell of a boat - its a Phil Southwell design - about 62', made in Aluminium, supremenly well equipped. Its for sale too, about 750k AUD I think, that's about R6,7 bar so, see it here.

Art and the Conservation of our Coastal Wealth

THURSDAY 23 MAY at 7pm

A presentation and talk by

KEVIN STANLEY International Impressionist artist in oils on canvas, with a display of his signature 'skyscapes' of the Coast and the Karoo.

AMIR REZAEI Marine Biologist with a special interest and knowledge of our rich Coastal Floral Kingdom and the hidden value in its conservation

NO ENTRANCE FEE – ALL WELCOME

LIGHT MEALS AVAILABLE AT CLUB PRICES – FULL BAR

Call Penny on 073 6111 444

Satphones: Iridium or Inmarsat?

Have you ever wondered which is better? See a good summary here.