R.I.P. Mike Lundy!

Mike Lundy, far right of the pic, at 2014 "HBYC Orphan's Lunch"

Rest in Peace Mike. 

Mike was a damn fine bloke - that I gathered very quickly from the various times I chatted with him at the yacht club. A gentleman, a great conversationalist, a well known hiker and author of some twenty books on hiking etc, member of the various Cape town hiking clubs etc. He ran a very successful business disposing of insurance assets etc, and was a popular and well known resident of Hout Bay, and in fact of Cape Town.

I suspect he had a lot of other credentials but sadly I was not well enough acquainted with him to say much more - hopefully other club members will supply further info for the website. Certainly he will be remembered as a true gentleman and a thoroughly decent guy, what else can one ask for?

Sincerest condolences to his family.

He is sadly missed at H.B.Y.C.

Sunday Sailing Results

Sunday 3 May 2015:

1. Megafreight No 3 Jendo Ocenasek  
2. Aquamania Paul Tomes 
3. JML 2 Richard Evans  
4. Savannah Keith Gemmell  
5. Skebenga Paul Dalton 


Full results here.

RCYC takes the Sword, Corum gets the Dagger!

Admiral's Regatta 2015

FINAL RESULTS

Team Results
Regatta Results
Series Results
John Coles Sprint

The race fleet under "Little Chappies" 

Light and pleasant conditions on the Sunday

L26s battled it out race after race...

More photos here.



RCYC Yacht Corum sailed an absolutely superb regatta to win the Admiral's Dagger. Brilliantly skippered by Paul Vivian, they crossed the line first in every race, whilst also achieving a good number of handicap wins to win the regatta overall, including the John Coles Sprint event! 

Royal Cape Yacht Club was awarded the sword as the leading team.

Despite a relatively small fleet of thirteen entries, sailing conditions were very good with a mix of sailing conditions. Courses were set off Noordhoek beach with steady winds that varied from light to quite fresh. The final race on the Monday was undoubtedly the most memorable in a fresh South Easter off Noordhoek Beach with windspeeds building to over 35 knots at times. Race officer Tom Ambrose set a generous olympic course off the beach which made for some truly spectacular sailing and scenery. The two leading L26s - skippered by Greg Davis and Theo Yon - astonished the fleet by arriving 2nd and 3rd at the first leeward rounding, not too far behind Corum, and ahead of the two Simonis 35s! Another L26 - Macatini - astonished the fleet too with a spectacular broach just after setting their bag at the weather mark. For a short while the keel was in the air but they recovered promptly and sailed on!

A great feature of the regatta was the unofficial class racing between the four L26s, the two Miuras, and the two Simonis 35s. It was great to see HBYC's young Theo Yon sailing excellent races on L26 LTC Orion, often beating the L26 Coordination skippered by the mighty Greg Davis! If it were not for a DSQ due to a poorly executed penalty turn, Theo would have taken the Admirals Dagger and won the regatta!

Hout Bay Yacht Club laid on a lovely lamb spit roast and some music on the Saturday night, and a delicious lamb curry for the prizegiving on the Monday. 

Many thanks to all those from Royal Cape Yacht Club who made the effort to support this event - comments were very positive all round and I am sure we can expect an even batter event in 2016.

Sunday Sailing Results

Nice turnout, light breeze - and it seems we have a sponsor for the Winter Series! Details to follow.

1. Megafreight
2. Skebenga
3. Aquamaniac
4. Savannah

Full results here. 

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!