Radio License Renewals

As mentioned in recent email to all club members, today Friday 25 Jan 2013 is D-Day for renewing your Marine Ship Stations Licenses. I have heard ICASA may be able to accept applications for another few days, but this is not official.

The process is as follows:

1. Complete Form B (I have attached a Word Format example with my own details in, highlighted in yellow, as an example, here). You must amend all the parts I have highlighted in yellow with your own details, but do not change the structure of this form in any way, and do not sign this form yet! You sign at the Commissioner's Desk.
2. Go to local SAPS (or Commissioner of Oaths) and get it certified, they will want you to sign the last page in front of them. Take your ID  book. This is suprisingly easy.
3. Find your current radio license. Mark it with a pencil clearly as "Annexure A to Form B".
4. Scan all of Form B, plus your radio license into a PDF file. 
5. Email the PDF file to 'SpecLicensing@icasa.org.za'. Set "Read Receipt" and "Delivery Confirmation" on your email.

Hope for the best. Good luck.

Justin

What has become of the old HBYC Clubhouse?

You just won't believe it unless you see it. 
See it here on Roy's Blog.....   

Another nice Wednesday!

 Last sail glides in from Vulcan at 19:56, mountains glowing orange.....

Meanwhile, the early retirees from the race had meat on the braai and cold beers all round....

It was a case of no wind in the bay, perhaps a bit outside the bay. We tried for Vulcan, still very light. Quest retired first, Megafreight not far behind, and chased back to the club. Immediately, of course, a fair wind came up from the North West, about 20kts!! The fleet raced to Vulcan and back in fine style, but again battled to get across the line in the bay. That's Hout Bay for you... However the scenery, weather and atmosphere were great - another nice day out!

Results

Faraway No 3  Chris Sutton  1.112   1   16-Jan-13  19:40:00    1.000  5338

Aquamania  Tojan Winterbach   1.000   2   16-Jan-13  19:50:00    2.000  5400

Savannah   Keith Gemmell    0.910  3   16-Jan-13  20:04:00    3.000  5678

Nandi    Nick Fairley       1.005  4   16-Jan-13  20:05:00    4.000  6331

Quest     Justin Phillips    0.840   5   16-Jan-13   DNF   6.000

Megafreight No 3 Jendo Ocenasek   1.075   6   16-Jan-13   DNF   8.000

Rotary Scout takes honours in the Governors Cup!

 Sean Barker (1st from left) and Mike Hardy (Michel) (2nd from right)

 Sean Barker (3rd from right) and Mike Hardy (Michel) (2nd from right)

Rotary Scout sailed a cracking race in the recent Governors Cup - to take first place in the Cruising Rally Division. In fact they were well up with the lead monohulls, not bad for an ageing Tosca 39! 

On board were Sean and Michel who have been part of the HBYC Junior Sailing Program, having crewed recently on our JML-3 Lipton Chalelnge. Congrats to them for a great race!!

2013 Wednesday Sailing starts again.....

Actually this pic is a holiday snap taken over Christmas because the weather was just pretty damn awful last night. I didn't have any other pics and I know people don't read posts without pics!

Thank heavens for the pub! The weather was so foul last night that racing was more or less abandoned. In a rare show of genius I managed to avoid going out in the rain and getting drenched with the rest of them. But in fact four of our intrepid voyagers went out in the rain - Megafreight, Savannah, Faraway and Nandi. Faraway and Savannah both claimed to have finished - we gave them each a bottle of wine as a prize, while Nandi and Megafreight each received some wine more or less to revive them. Technically we suspect Faraway must have won the race, and Savannah notched up a very creditable second place, they were very happy with a podium finish. 

An hour later all was well in the clubhouse, not much that cant be fixed with some good wine and a braai! Come back South-Easter, all is forgiven.......

Hout Bay yachts leave for CROCS Regatta

JML-3 leaves first - pickup those fenders!

Theo on the stick, Sam was on board too.

 Nandi Storms out under main sail.

Faraway crosses the line, 

they have to catch the others before Cape Town....

We had a nice pursuit race organised from HBYC-RCYC for CROCS on Wednesday. Quest and Savannah weren't able to leave on Wednesday as scheduled, but will likely go Friday.

An hour after the start, nandi was well in the lead screaming up to Llandudno, with JML a few minutes behind with the bag up. faraway hadn't come into view yet. Last I heard they were all caught in the infamous hole of Clifton..... don't think we had a result but they had a dam fine sail anyway. CROCS runs over the weekend from Sat-Mon in Table Bay.

Wednesday Racing, not this time

 Williwaws below Chappies

View from Fish on the Rocks. 

I think the fish just blow into their kitchen window....

Well we didn't sail on Wednesday, or Thursday, and it looks much the same for Friday. Trees were uprooted, sand is everywhere. Going to be an expensive summer if we don't get out of the bar....

Good Fellows!

GOOD FELLOWS: Hout Bay Yacht Club development trainees, from left, Mark Johnson, Junior Daniels, Evan Yon , Lorenzo Yon, Quaid Adonis and trainer, Theo Yon, welcome the two new additions to the fleet donated by Roger Orpen on Jolly Roger and Robin Parker with Jolly Parker. Picture by Kayla Parker.

HBYC Press Release  (thanks also to Robin Parker)

Youth Development Sailing at Hout Bay’s yacht club has received a major boost with the donation of two new sail training vessels from club members.

Former commodore, Robin Parker, donated a new 09’er (a base training dinghy) to the sail training school as the winner of a club draw for the boat aimed at boosting the fleet and providing additional money for additional purchases. Likewise, long-serving member, Roger Orpen, paid for the acquisition of another craft. They have been aptly named Jolly Parker and Jolly Roger and have already had their keels wet.

The two new donations brought the existing fleet of the youth development training initiative to 7 with a plan to acquire more complex Laser Pico’s for advanced training before crews take to the highly competitive environment aboard the Jewish Maritime League’s L26 Class “JML 3”, which recently performed exceedingly well at the Lipton Challenge Cup for L26’s, held in False Bay.

While the Laser Pico’s will provide much welcome relief from the demand to join the initiative under Sam Leggatt and award winning skipper, Theo Yon, himself a product of the youth development scheme, it will still not be enough to satisfy the curiosity of at least another 8 youngsters from Hout Bay who crowd the quayside on training days hoping for their turn on the water.

Vice commodore, Jeremy Nel, who pioneered the latest round of advancements in youth development, by successfully encouraging the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund to donate a sizeable sum to create better facilities at the club, says: “It is a wonderful gesture of behalf of Robin and Roger and we would sincerely hope others will follow with similar classes or other capable vessels to ensure this effort gains momentum. Sailing is a wonderful educational tool, teaching discipline and respect, particular in an environment where in many areas social cohesion has deteriorated.”

Nel hopes to soon see Laser Pico’s on the water followed by larger, more complex Lasers 4.7’s, or RSA Tera’s  to fulfil a growing need among the Valley’s youth for a chance to develop a sailing future.

So far this year the club has held several events designed to raise funds for development including a highly successful auction. More are planned in the future along with quayside developments to make access to the water easier.

Should you wish for your child to participate in this programme, please call the Hout Bay Yacht Club on 021-790 3110 in order that we may assist in their growth and education on the water.

More Wednesday Sailing

This lovely picture of the start of last night's race from Pierre's iPhone belies the wild conditions we sailed in. 20-30 knots it was, what a workout!

After some deliberation (on whether to sail or not), we set a port course around Dunes, Fish-on-the-Rocks and Ore-Jetty. Faraway streaked off never to be seen again, while a close battle ensued between JML-3 and Nandi for 2nd place. Savannah moved around the course with dignity and control and reasonable speed, whilst Quest battled a bit in the conditions. Beer and supper was well earned I can tell you!

Thanks to Pierre for running the bridge.

Results, pending the numbers, showed:

1 Faraway
2 JML-3
3 Nandi
4 Savannah
5 Quest

What Walter has for breakfast!!!

This is Walter, he that co-owns and runs Muriel's Munchies outside the club. The reason Muriel isn't in the picture is because she isn't the one having about 9 pounds of sweet pastry for breakfast! I could hardly believe my eyes walking past the club this morning - Walter had just settled down to tackle this monster pie, and seemingly to prove to Tim Noakes and others that not all people are carbohydrate intolerant! Amazingly Walter is not a bit overweight. He claims to be Austrian or German I think, but I can tell you there's more than a bit of Danish in him today!!

Try their food, it's always fresh and of the best quality and very reasonable. Did I mention Walter is an ex vice-Commodore of HBYC, and a long standing member too?