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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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Well, the Clippers have come and gone and my special thanks must go to those members who assisted with both the welcoming and the manning of the Press and follow me boat. They spent many very late nights or early mornings as true to form ocean races always finish in the middle of the night and this race was no exception.
To those of you who took your boats offshore for the start of the next leg well done I think we made a great spectacle with many boats offshore and the send off was in keeping with the standard we set the last time. The weather again played it's part and light winds were a blessing for this type of event. To those of you who might have some influence with our city fathers please make every effort to persuade them to continue with their sponsorship of the Durban yacht otherwise this magnificent event will be lost to our port as unless the City support the yacht they will not visit our port again.
Monday evening saw an unusual storm of such intensity and direction that havoc was caused to the Marina and a significant amount of damage was caused to the walk on structures. The staff have been hard at work ever since and it was encouraging to see the number of boats who braved the “dinghy ferry” to get to their boats and sail.
This coming weekend the sailing programme goes back to schedule and the monthly keeler mini regatta will be hosted by RNYC. Two races are scheduled for Saturday starting at 14h00 and three on Sunday starting at 10h30. Sunday also sees the sail past at the BYC and we intend to shorten the last race on Sunday if needs be to allow the racing fleet to participate in the sail past which start at 13h30 in front of the Bluff Yacht Club.
Let’s keep sailing!
Rear Commodore.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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Breaking news!
Durban hit by tornado type wind, 4pm on Monday afternoon the Durban bay was lashed by strong winds driving rain. I heard a ship report to the tower that his mooring lines to the dock side had parted and needed 2tug boats immediately, and someone asked the port control what the wind speed was they reported it to be 70 knots. An American cruising boat arrived at about 6pm and told us he had 80 knots of south westerly wind just outside Durban. We were expecting the cold front in the evening as the bar was reading 1001 but one of our radio stations on the lower south coast did warn us of this weather moving towards us the cold front arrived later in the evening with winds in the 30 knot range.
On the Mozambique coast lie we have s/v Cuta a single hander coming in from the west Life car e sailing Madagascar to Cape Town, Moja Forever and Larbaka are waiting for a window south and are holed up in Inhaca. In Durban we have at least 30 internationals who will be putting in flight plans today (Tuesday) as a 4 day n/easterly window opens tomorrow. At the moment a small fleet has left Cape Town for Saint Helina in the Atlantic, but most of the World cruising boats will find ports to stay over until the new year and then our work will start again giving them weather forecasts as they head west, Mike and Meme grant on the Ravin 30 are now in Luderitz waiting to cross the Atlantic.
Signed Roy Cook
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
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This weeks Funsail is sponsored by SAB (South African Breweries).
Parking discs are now available. For more info please contact Liz on 031 301 5425 or
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Friday night of course is the Club Draw.
1st Prize-R2000-00
Sunday Braai & Carvery with live entertainment.
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