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2016/17 Racing Season the to View the Digital OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the Version, Go to ROYAL CAPE YACHT CLUB SAIL SAIL The escape you want in a place you’ll treasure SAIL ROYAL CAPE YACHT CLUB CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 2016/17 Racing Season THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION ROYAL CAPE YACHT CLUB CAPE YACHT ROYAL A Variety of Yachts to Charter in a Variety of Destinations. For Bareboat and Skippered Options Contact the Experts The Moorings, Cape Town Tel: 021 200 1836 N VOL E mail: [email protected] UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS O www.moorings.com 8 | on the water 2016/2017 CAPE TO RIO SPECIAL EDITION WWW.RCYC.CO.ZA ZA_29715_TM_0615_AD_SAIL South Africa_FULL PAGE.indd 2 3/20/15 12:10 PM Krone Summer Series Ad(297x210mm) FA.pdf 1 28/04/2017 10:07 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K Enjoy Responsibly. Not for Sale to Persons Under the Age of 18. Krone Summer Series Ad(297x210mm) FA.pdf 1 28/04/2017 10:07 SAIL WELCOME RCYC his is our biggest issue of SAIL to date! Volume 8 is packed with excellent content which shows that RCYC is a vibrant, exciting, busy and buoyant club. T Just looking at the reports on the number of regattas we Contents host, the events that we support, the encouragement of our youth through diversification and the boat building projects we endorse, there is no doubt that RCYC is doing something right! Every member and committee member takes great pride in their club, it is a home away from home for many. A wide range of regattas and races meets everybody’s tastes from cruising and offshore to hard-core around the cans racing. The Cape to Rio yacht race, RCYC’s flagship offshore races saw 28 boats set sail. Our very own Hylton Hale, Francois Kuttel and crew aboard Lion of Africa Vulcan crossed the line as the first RCYC member boat, 3rd place overall, and as the first SA boat. See a full report on the race and all the entries in this edition of SAIL. Here’s to another jam-packed season of great sailing! SAIL The escape you want in a place you’ll treasure SAIL ROYAL CAPE YACHT CLUB CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 2016/17 Racing Season THE To view the digital OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ROYAL version, go to CAPE YACHT CLUB www.issuu.com/sailrcyc A Variety of Yachts to Charter in a Variety of Destinations. For Bareboat and Skippered Options Contact the Experts 3 Letter from the Commodore The Moorings, Cape Town Tel: 021 200 1836 VOL E mail: [email protected] UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS N O 8 www.moorings.com | on the water 2016/2017 CAPE TO RIO SPECIAL EDITION Ingrid Hale and the Sail team WWW.RCYC.CO.ZA ZA_29715_TM_0615_AD_SAIL South Africa_FULL PAGE.indd 2 3/20/15 12:10 PM C 4 Welcome to Cape Town M Y 8 News and views CM 20 RCYC Sailing Academy SAILTHE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE MY ROYAL CAPE YACHT CLUB CY PUBLISHING EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Ingrid Hale 27 Club racing CMY ART DIRECTOR Piers Buckle (Fresh Identity) CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Toni Mainprize (RCYC) K 36 Local sailing regattas COPY EDITOR Jackie Fermo ADVERTISING SALES Shirley Roos 36 Maserati Cape Town Race Week CONTRIBUTORS Luke Scott, Toni Mainprize, Roy Dunster, Imogen Whittam, Mike Bartholomew, Martine Schmidt, Irvine Laidlaw, Lindani Mchunu, Howard Richman, Andrew Collins, Dale Kushner, Di Meek, 38 Mykonos Offshore Geoff Meek, Simon Borchert, Michael Peper, Dave Hudson, Fanie Naude, Ray Matthews, Vitor Medina, Alec Smith, Mark Sadler, James Blakemore, 40 Lipton Cup Ashleigh de Villiers, Greg Beadle, Ingrid Hale, Tim Wright, Jeff Ayliffe, Alexandre Monat, Stuart Childerely, Rick Tomlinson 42 Fling Regatta Cape to Rio: Marc Lagesse, Tom Corkett, Hylton Hale, Andrew Cole, Tammy Floyd, Nick Leggatt, Tom Moultrie, Alan Haefele, Mikayla Bader, Michael Kavanagh, William Brookes, Kevin Dolley, Thinus Gorenewald, 45 Cape2Rio Cathleen Hughes, Robert Hawley CONTACT RCYC Tel: +27 21 421 1354 | Fax: +27 21 421 6028 70 Royal Capers Abroad Email: [email protected] | www.rcyc.co.za FOR LETTERS AND ENQUIRIES Big Blue Media – Ingrid Hale 74 RCYC sailing calendar Tel: +27 83 309 3895 | Email: [email protected] ADVERTISING ENQUIRIES Shirley Roos 77 RCYC race results Email: [email protected] 80 Final Word PRINTING Novus Print ©Royal Cape Yacht Club. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or be transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without prior permission from the publisher. Sail aims to provide accurate and up-to-date information. Information is given in good faith, and is believed to be correct at the time of publication. Features included in SAIL are On the cover: Lion of Africa Vulcan seen here racing during Maserati Cape based on content supplied and are weighted according to the amount of information Town Race Week, was placed first South African boat (and first RCYC provided. The Publishing Editor cannot be held responsible for a feature that is not entry), third in class and third overall in the 2017 Cape to Rio yacht race. included in the line-up if information was not provided on the regatta/event. Photograph: Ashleigh de Villiers Enjoy Responsibly. Not for Sale to Persons Under the Age of 18. WWW.RCYC.CO.ZA 1 SAIL RCYC Letter from the commodore Koopmans and Elliott Lindani Mchunu, has taken on professional presentation Magadlela ensure that the task of managing our about our club, our Academy marinas are kept in tip-top Sailing Academy. As you and our achievements over condition whilst maintaining probably know, I am very the past number of years. the hard space in an organ- passionate about our This presentation and ised chaotic way. Outside Academy and it is a comfort- leave-behind document will House is one of the major ing thought that our Academy be presented to various contributing sources of is in great hands. Lindani is partners and stakeholders of income for the club. without a doubt the most the club, namely, The City of Fabulous and profes- passionate and enthusiastic Cape Town, Western Cape sional sailing events have person I have met in a long Government, Department of been organised by our ever time and he has already Cultural Affairs and Sport, ur last AGM seems faithful team of Toni Main- made his mark in the Lotto, South African Sailing, like it was just the prize and Fanie Naude and Academy by choosing a team S.A.Navy and Transnet Ports other day and here record entries for most based on strict merit to Authority. We believe that our Owe are writing events have been recorded. accompany him to the EMC case will be much stronger yearly reports and sending We sadly bid farewell to Youth Keelboat Regatta with the support of these out nomination forms again. our long standing F&B recently held in Durban. The various institutions. Personally it has been an manager Riaan Bezuidenhout, team excelled on the water It remains for me to exciting year at the helm, get- who made a well-timed by taking a silver medal, but thank all members for their ting to grips with all the cogs career move. To ensure more importantly brought support and wish one and all in the wheel that make this continuity, Riaan sought the sailors from all walks of life a happy and safe sailing wonderful club function services of a previous duty together where the common season in 2017/2018. and excel. manager Wesley Young who goal is sailing and having fun. Yours in sailing, I believe RCYC is in a has hit the ground running What great ambassadors for good space right now, and is maintaining and our club. Vitor Medina members seem happy with improving a well-oiled Food My priority in my first RCYC commodore the environment both socially and Beverage machine. year as Commodore has been and on the water and it is Welcome to Chef Jacques the future of our club and our great to see faces that are and Chef Chad who are transformation initiatives. Our making use of the club again, excelling with new ideas and Transformation and Future having been missing in action menus in the kitchen. Planning Committee has for many moons. Nigel Clack, Natalie de Gois compe- been working very hard to Chris King and Tich Mitchell tently manages our Functions attain targets set by our- to mention a few. department and ensures that selves to achieve our Our various departments, the club coffers tick over with transformation goals and to under the watchful eye of our outside functions whilst engage with Transnet Port fairly new G.M. Bruce Walker, ensuring that club members Authorities. Our current lease are thriving in their portfolios are given the necessary expires Dec 2023 and first and making a significant attention to enjoy the club prize would be to extend the contribution to the success of facilities. term of the lease. our vibrant club. Boet The new kid on the block, We are busy compiling a WWW.RCYC.CO.ZA 3 SAIL RCYC Welcome to the Fairest Cape ape Town sees millions of has been voted “Best Food City in the World”; all this serves to visitors every year, many of confirm that any traveler will find a home here. whom arrive by road or air, The massive range of culinary options is astounding – African- but neither of those capture fusion, haute cuisine, informal braais or barbecues, Halaal C delicacies, seafood – even our street stalls and pop-up restaurants the magic of the city quite like the experience of seeing Table Mountain rise out of the horizon from the Atlantic Ocean from rival any in Europe or Asia.
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