Results of the last two Wednesday night races

28 March:

1. Megafreight  4447
2. Hot Ice  4662
3. Faraway  4870
4. Spectrum  5318

Full results here

1 April:

Megafreight  2005
Faraway  2051
Hot Ice  2067
Aries JML  2298
Aquamania  2409

Full results here

News in from SV Revelations, now in Salvador

From: wiets@weizter.co.za [mailto:wiets@weizter.co.za]
Sent: 12 February 2015 08:04 PM
To: 'Hout Bay Yacht Club'
Subject: RE: CLUB EVENTS

Dear Houtbay Yacht Club

Just to let you guys know;

Yacht Revelations and Yacht Entheos successfully completed the Governor’s Cup Yacht Race to St. Helena.

Revelations was 5 th to cross the finish line and ended up 2 nd in the multi hull class.

Both yachts stayed on for about 5 days in St. Helena and then departed for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

At about the halfway point, due to a high pressure zone - it was decided to rather head for Salvador.

Both yachts arrived safely in Salvador, Brazil on 2 and 3 February 2015 respectively  and we are now moored at Terminal Nautico Da Bahia.

We will be here for around 1 month attending to some repairs and then head off towards the Caribbean stopping at various places along the way.

Regards

Wiets Wilken

svRevelations.com

Spectrum wins 2015 Club Champs!

Megafreight, HBYC Club Champs 2015

HBYC Club Champs were held in almost perfect conditions over 24,25 January 2015. A reasonable turnout of seven very competitive boats was witnessed, with very tight racing in each race over the two days. A total of five races was held in the moderate Northwester that prevailed.

Racing was extremely tight, with two photo-finishes, two reasonable collisions, and a few occasions of competitors trading places during each race! There was a great social at the clubhouse on Saturday night - huge thanks to Shirley and Taffy - who organised great food and some live music to go with it.

Many thanks also to Richard Evans and Chris Sutton who put a lot of work into this event.

The final results, allowing 1 discard,  showed as follows:

1 Spectrum 4 1 1 1 1
2 Megafreight 9 3 2 2 2
3 Savannah 12 2 4 4 2
4 Aries JML 3 13 4 3 3 3
5 Aquamania 21 5 6 6 4
6 Skebenga 21 6 5 5 5
7 Faraway No 3 24 7 7 7 3

Individual race results can be seen here.

Merry Christmas!

Hout Bay Yacht Club wishes all members and friends a truly great Christmas!

Fair Winds and Smooth Sailing for 2015!

Youth Summer Sailing Course at H.B.Y.C.

Hout Bay Yacht Club Youth Sailing

Learn how to sail Dabchicks and Lasers 

over three fun-filled days of the school holidays 

with our qualified instructor.

VENUE: Hout Bay Yacht Club

Hout Bay Harbour

Cape Town

DATES: 19 to 21 Dec 2014

5 to 7 Jan 2015

TIMES: 9:30 - 3:30 daily

AGES: 11 to 16 yrs

COST: R500 (lunch & course material included)

Enquiries & Bookings, contact:

Anne: (021)790 3110

Lisa : 082 572 2715

See the Poster

Orphan's Lunch!

Having missed some of the recent Orphan's Lunches, I must declare this one to have been a fantastic success! The organisation and catering was outstanding, the spirit was awesome, and there was a very generous spirit to make it a very successful auction! 

News just in reports R22-000 was raised for the charity, which goes a long way to feeding orphans and indigent pensioners in Hanberg. This is a fantastic effort from a relatively small number of people and is something Hout Bay Yacht Club can be extremely proud of. It also makes the lunch that much more special. This is the Real Spirit of Christmas!

Special thanks to all those who made it happen - especially, Paul and Liz Pigneguy who organised the event, with support from Taffy and Shirley as always, and to Robin Parker for running the auction as usual. Never mind Werna, who runs the charity!!!! What a champion! (who have I missed?)

I suppose the Scottish Minstrels should also get a mention, see them here!

Orphans warming up...

Cheer up you lot!

Beware of the Pig! 

Mischief or what, the Scottish Play is conceived....

"This is definitely my beer!!"

" .... then again - maybe not .... "

Celebrity Auctioneer in full swing!

HBYC Club Champs 2014 (Now Postponed till 2015)

(Postponed until early 2015, due to lack of availability of most teams at short notice)

Brief NoR and Course Card here.

More details will follow.

Please confirm entry soonest to RC Sailing, Richard Evans.

JML2 takes it this week....

A lightish NorthWester, with some cloud and rain unfortunately brought variable and shifty winds into the bay.  L26s do well in these conditions, and Keegon did well to produce a clear win on corrected time.

Megafreight, who crossed the line first, was second on corrected time, followed by Faraway and then Aquamania (Theo Yon) - who must have tripped somewhere - in fourth place. Thats the beauty of Hout Bay Sailing - nothing is a given!

Full results here.

Following the racing was the book Launch of Jack Mudds new book "Jack of all Trades" - quite amusing. There was a great attendance, and a great social evening as it turned out.

Volvo Boats arrive in Cape Town!

Abu Dhabi

DongFeng

Crew of Abu Dhabi at the Prizegiving

Abu Dhabi crossed the line just a few minutes ahead of DongFeng - about 3 miles lead -  this after 25 days and 17000 miles or so!!! Man alive - is that match-racing or what!? Just imagine the stress on these crews! This is largely due to the boats being identical for the first time, its all up to the crews...and - er - the navigators. These two boats looked to be in really good shape, which is just as well, as they have a fair bit to go still. I don't think I envy these guys too much.

An hour or so later I happened to be in Pick'nPay, getting some emergency wine supplies, when I noticed two young guys ahead of me in the queue dressed in red Musto Sailing gear. We took a chance and asked them - in English - if they were from the DongFeng? Of course they were - and very amazed we'd made the connection - and then bubbled on about Cape Town for a few minutes to say how happy they were to be here and especially in Cape Town - and what a nice reception they'd had. I would have to agree - it was quite impressive! And what lovely humble and nice people! They were just buying some pleasantries to remind themselves what life on land is all about - 25 days in a washing machine is not for everybody I think. They deserve a good rest now.

Keep an eye on this race, it will be one of the most interesting Volvo's ever! Personally, I think the formula is just about right now. And go see the boats sometime, for yachties, this is quite some eye-candy.

See Trevor Wilkins pics of the arrival of Abu Dhabi here - awesome!

Wednesday Results!

Unusually small fleet this time - despite conditions in the bay being excellent for sailing! Was it the Volvo race or Guy Fawkes? I hope not the latter. Anyway, the braai in the club was quite notable, if Audrey's Facebook pic was anything to go by!

1 JML2
2 Savannah
3 Faraway

More results here.