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Windjammer ‘Khersonnes’ Visiting SA
Your Weekend
Weather according to the SA Weather
Service should be as follows:
Durban & Richard’s Bay: Saturday
will be 28 degrees and cloudy with a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms.
The wind will be a light southeasterly. Sunday will be 27 degrees and cloudy
with a 20% chance of evening showers. The wind will be a light northeasterly
becoming a moderate southwesterly in the afternoon.
Midmar: Saturday will be 29 degrees and cloudy with a
40% chance of showers and storms. The wind will be a light southeasterly.
Sunday will eb 28 degrees and cloudy with a 20% chance of afternoon and evening
thunderstorms. The wind will be a light southeasterly.
Vaal Dam: Saturday will be 24 degrees and partly cloudy
with a 40% chance of thunderstorms. The wind will be a light northwesterly.
Sunday will be 27 degrees and partly cloudy with a 30% chance of thunderstorms.
The wind will be a light northeasterly.
Cape Town: Saturday will be 26
degrees and cloudy becoming partly cloudy.
The wind will be a fresh southwesterly. Sunday will be 25 degrees and
partly cloudy with a 50% chance of evening rain. The wind will be a strong
northwesterly.
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based in Randburg Johannesburg, is looking for a Marine salesman to assist and
run the chandlery side of the business. The incumbent must be professional,
enthusiastic and driven to succeed. This, together with computer skills will
secure an exciting position in the marine industry. Please contact Alex or
Keith at 011-792 0243 or fax CV to 011-792 0774.
Today is
the final day to get in your discounted entry for the Henley
Midmar Yacht Club’s 9-Hour Race. Entries received after today will
include a R50-00 penalty payable to the NSRI. The organisers tell me that
numbers are already looking much the same as they were last year so with any
luck this year’s race could be even bigger than the previous years. The race
itself takes place in just over a week’s time on the 21st of
February. Other good news is that the water level in the dam continues to rise
and is now sitting at around 43% so there is definitely plenty of water to sail
on. For more information download the Notice
of Race from the Smooth Sailing Notices of Race web page.
The Active 15
project is coming along nicely with the prototype hull nearing completion. The
next step is to fit her out and before getting her rigged and going sailing.
The developers of this new skiff type dinghy have had enquiries from as far
afield as the USA while there appears to be a good deal of local interest.
Detailed information on the project is posted on the Active 15 web site at www.activesportsboats.com.
It is well worth a look.
Cape
Town will, on Monday, be receiving a visit from an unusual sailing vessel, the Windjammer
“Khersonnes”. The 108-meter sailing ship is on a voyage
around the globe following traditional routes. She left Rio on the 26th
of January this year so has crossed the Atlantic in a little under a month. On
board the “Khersonnes” has 40 professional crew, 70 trainees and 40 cadets. The
“Ukrainian built and registered vessel is used as a training vessel with 1000
or so sailors learning the ropes on her every year. The vessel boasts a massive
2770 square meters of sail area carried on three masts and divided amongst her
26 sails. She should make an impressive sight as she enters Table Bay under
sail on Monday. The vessel is due to stay in Cape Town until the 21st
when she will set sail for Durban where she will stop over for a week. After
that it’s off to Reunion and Mauritius as she makes her way up the east coast
of Africa and back into the Mediterranean. The “Khersonnes” will be open for
public viewing while she is in port. For more information visit her web site at
www.inmaris.de.
Viggo
Jacobsen, president of the Optimist Class for its first
eighteen years from 1965 to 1982, celebrates on 13 February his 90th birthday
in his home of Aarhus, Denmark. When founded IODA had just seven members
countries on two continents: by the time Viggo retired in 1982 its had 44 on
all six continents and 30 nations at its Worlds. In that period he had overseen
such daring innovations as the introduction of toe-straps, metal spars and,
critical for the Class, competitive fibreglass hulls. A summary of Optimist
Class history is at www.optiworld.org/ioda-faq.html.
Both
Geronimo and Cheyenne are at present well behind the record pace on their Jules
Verne Trophy attempts but in the last few days seem to
have made up some ground on the required pace. Conditions have for the most
part been light with neither of the giant multihulls setting the world on fire
with their speeds at this stage. This morning Cheyenne’s web site indicated
that the boat was doing speeds in the 20-knot region though so she should be
clawing her way back into contention. While it is quite hard to understand the
French Geronimo web site other sources have her placed further out in the
Atlantic and doing slightly better at this stage than Cheyenne. Rumor was rife
on the web yesterday that Geronimo had turned back to France but at this stage
that seems not to be the case. We will keep you updated as things progress but
in the meantime check out the following interesting web sites:
Cheyenne’s Web Site: www.fossettchallenge.com
Geronimo’s Web Site: www.trimaran-geronimo.com
World Sailing Speed Record Council: www.sailspeedrecords.com
Our Notices of Race page on the Smooth Sailing has all the NOR’s available to us. If you
have a regatta coming up and would like to make the NOR available online then
e-mail it to hethcot@iafrica.com and it will be posted and
listed in this newsletter. To get your copy simply click on the name of the
regatta you are interested in below:
|
Regatta |
Venue |
Dates |
|
Point, Royal Natal & Zululand
Yacht Clubs and Club Naval, Maputo |
December 2003 to July 2004 |
|
|
Club Mykonos, Langebaan |
13 & 14 February |
|
|
Sterkfontein Dam |
14 & 15 February |
|
|
Henley Midmar Yacht Club |
21 February |
|
|
Vaal Dam |
21 & 22 February |
|
|
Milnerton Aquatic Club |
28 & 29 February |
|
|
Benoni Sailing Club |
28 & 29 February |
|
|
Henley Midmar Yacht Club |
13 & 14 March |
|
|
Point Yacht Club |
20 to 22 March |
|
|
Mossel Bay Yacht Club |
20 to 22 March |
|
|
Island Sailing Club |
27 & 28 March |
|
|
Zululand Yacht Club |
9 April |
|
|
Point Yacht Club Easter Regatta Including Sprog, 505
& Dart kZN Champs |
Point Yacht Club |
9 to 12 April |
|
Hoedjiesbaai Beach, Saldahna Bay |
9 to 12 April |
|
|
Dabchick Downham Trophy &
Optimist Interclub Challenge |
Pretoria Sailing Club |
24 & 25 April 2004 |
|
Algoa Bay Yacht Club |
24 to 30 April |
The Classifieds has been updated on the Smooth Sailing web site. Take a surf past to see what is for sale or sought after in the wanted column. To place an ad, e-mail the details to andrew@smoothsailing.co.za.
FOR SALE
22
ft Vagabond Motor Cruiser
With 2 x 115 hp
Yamahas in excellent condition.
Sleeps 2 with
separate toilet, fridge, fish finder, on braked high speed
trailer.
Lying Vaal Dam.
R165 000-00 or
nearest offer.
Contact: Steven
Cell: 082 321 2143
Good condition.
New centreboard.
Includes two sets of
sails, dolly and boat cover.
Also included is an
unlicensed road trailer.
On view at Benoni
Sailing Club.
R6 500-00
Contact: Leon Stander
Cell 082-873-6611
Work: 011-817 9300
Home: 011-817 1836
Complete new
paint
New sheets
genny ok spinaker ok main old
Has all
extras motor cusions etc
R20 000-00
Parked on
shore at TYC
Contact: Ken
Bishop
Cell: 083 631 3856
Fully
equipped for extensive blue water cruising
27HP Yanmar
engine.
Includes
chain mooring in Durban.
R350 000-00
Contact Don
Sellars
Cell: 072 354
9724
E-Mail: donsellars@absamail.co.za
In very good
condition
Lots of
extras and one year old motor
R89 000-00
Contact: Leo
Harford
Phone:
021-465 5548
Cell: 082 923 6126.
Contact: Hennie
De Villiers
'CRACKER'
R60 000-00
Includes sails
Trailer and mooring
Contact: Andrew Murray
Phone: 031-467 8190 (a/h)
Wooden Extra
in racing trim for sale.
Condition
excellent, made by Stephen du Toit.
Kept
permanently indoors and seldom sailed in past few years.
R9 500-00
Includes
spare sails, dolly and cover.
Contact: John
Sibbald
Work 021-762
5067
Home: 021-786
3012
Cell: 082 658 2490
2 X full sets
of sails
Boat totally
recently refurbished thus in mint condition
Lying
Haartbeespoort Dam
R45 000-00
including mooring
Contact:
Geoff
Cell: 083 321
1485
Magic Box
Composite Hull
Recently refurbished
Includes licensed
trailer and dolly, sails and cover
Won 2001 Nationals
R8 000-00
Contact: Kim Davies
Cell: 082-780-8357
E-Mail: timbercuisine@wol.co.za
WANTED
Second Hand
Hobie 16 Mast
Contact: Heinz Venter
Work Phone: 033-263
1251/2 on ext 227
Home Phone: 033-263 2237
Laser
In good condition.
Contact: John Knipe
Cell: 083 281 1399
E-Mail: jknipe@bayunion.co.za
Hobie 16
Any condition.
Contact: Lorraine
Cell: 084 611 4889
Contact: Simon Waterkyn
In
Gauteng area
Contact: Niel Ellingson
Cell:
073 224 0945
Optimist
In sailing condition.
Will pay cash.
Contact: David Untiedt
Cell: 082 8881734
Andrew Heathcote
Mobile: +27 (0) 83 783 8805
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