Sunday Racing

This past Sunday included Faraway, Moutte, Megafreight and Quest. Light and variable winds, unsettled sea. Faraway made the most of them with her tall rig and long hull, and basically disappeared, leaving an interesting tussle between Mouette and Megafreight. Quest was spinning around in circles with no wind to keep her moving.

The final results showed Mouette far ahead of the fleet on corrected time, followed by Faraway and Megafreight. Quest retired in order to join the rest in the bar. nice to be on the water but not the best conditions!

Detailed results here.

Winter Series Results

Apologies for not posting these all sooner. Following are the racing results for the 2013 Winter Series to date:

2013 April 28
2013 June 30
2013 June 23
2013 June 16
2013 June 09
2013 July 21

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JML-3 at Lipton!

Just in from Sam: The Pride of Hout Bay skippered by Theo Yon seen sailing in on their L26 after the first day of racing in this years Lipton cup being sailed off shore in Durban.

They are currently lying in 6th place against the finest teams from all around the country, and have been described as the team sailing with the most heart by the organisers. Theo Yon has been a long time sailor for Hout Bay and is actively involved in the training in the HBYC junior program. He has recently obtained his Yachtmaster (off shore) qualification and is working hard to be included in the Cape to Rio race at the end of the year.

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.