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Important Updates


Dear All Subscriptions: Thanks you to those members that have paid their subs but a very large number have yet to pay.  The due date is August 16th and thereafter your fingerprint access will be deactivated. Optimist Sail Training: This will start on Sunday 14 August at 9.30 a.m.  If you have not confirmed your [...]

Club Newsletter – July 2010


COMMODORES CORNER Holger Bischoff Dear friends and members, a very warm welcome to all of you from myself, to the start of the 2010 / 2011 sailing and rowing season. Firstly, a very huge thank you is owed to our previous commodore, Jennifer Burger and her committee, for guiding this club of ours over the [...]

Central Boating Club Championships 2010


50 Lasers on the first day of racing!  The Lasers certainly ‘invaded’ the vlei on Saturday.  Thanks to all the sailors who accepted the clubs invitation to sail the two races on the first day.  Thank you very much to Central Boating who not only generously agreed to continue sponsoring our club championships but also [...]

Extra & 420 Nationals


The Regatta started with everyone rushing to the club after school and work on Friday afternoon to make the start on time. With a few general recalls and OCSs the regatta started in a moderate NW wind. Saturday was a breeze with between 15 and 20 knots! Many people got stuck in the mud and [...]

New Results: Club Leaderboard & HYC Points


This last weekend saw many of our members sailing at Hermanus Yacht Club in their leg of the points series – you can download the results of that event here. We also track members progress in each class over time at club events to create a leaderboard for each class – this has just been [...]

DNG Interiors Regatta


With 2 races, 64 boats and 84 sailors, the DNG Interiors sponsored regatta was a great success.  The first race (a class pursuit race) started with almost no wind and the different classes starting a few minutes apart. The race was shortened after 1 lap due to the lack of wind.  The race was won [...]

Novice Sailing Course


The Novice sailing course was launched about 25 years ago, but this is the first time that Christa was at the helm. Christa’s is a brave undertaking: I know how difficult it is to get one nine-year old to make his bed on his own, or put his dirty clothes into the laundry bin. Christa’s [...]

Rankings Update


Version two of the 2009/10 Leader Board is now available - you can download it by clicking here. The Leader Board is calculated based on results from sponsored events, the Spring Regatta and the Club Championships.

Zebra Regatta 2009


Once again Zebra Road Surfacing sponsored the regatta that marks the end of the first half of our sailing season.  Thank you very much Zebra and Andrew and Alison Thompson for your support over the past few years.  Alison went the extra mile again with a fantastic selection of prizes for all the classes and [...]

A Royal Visit


Today, November 26th Commodore Jennifer Burger welcomed the King and Queen of Norway to the Club! This was their only personal event during their trip to South Africa and also the last official event on their agenda. It was arranged by the Norwegian Embassy in conjunction with Gordon Knight of the Wynberg Rotary Club which [...]