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Wednesday Evening Sailing

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Wednesday Evening Sailing
I have been holding off on this post waiting for Sue and Max to start posting their photographs from the Wednesday Evening sail that took place on the 23rd of January 2008. With almost perfect conditions of flat sea, a dying south west wind that started at 14 knots, clear skies and just enough warmth to warrant eschewing wet weather gear we had 25 boats on the water. Wednesday Evening's sail was sponsored by new club member, Zane Zurcher, from Zurchers Electrical (Click on the link to get Zane's contact details, the next time load shedding strikes!). The tireless Wednesday Committee of two, Darryl and Nigel elected to send us on a little jaunt down the beachfront to the Shark Rock Pier and back. Duette and Wild Thing were scheduled to do the Bell Bouy dash. Duette have decided that their new 'bowsprit' and 'asymmetrical kite' configuration is the bees knees and the way to ensure that they get the best out of their boat. Unfortunately for them the load on a 'bowsprit', made by lashing a normal spinnaker pole to the bow, is enormous and will lead to breakages. Cest la vie and back to the drawing board for Sean and Kerry as they now need to manufacture a fatter and shorter pole to experiment with. I just wonder what effect this will have on their rating? Wild Thing were a little late in leaving and didn't do the dash - I believe it was because Russel didn't get his pass signed by the longhair and had to spend time tracking her down to get the forms, allowing him to go sailing, signed in triplicate. Cooking's BWB defected to Wild Thing, apparently "to take better photographs of Cooking". Yea right we believe you girl. Anyway, Sue and Max run a blog featuring a daily photograph of Port Elizabeth, called, appropriately enough, Port Elizabeth Daily Photo and hitched a ride on Dougie Stannard's Take Six and, as Sue says; "proceeded to take hundreds of photographs". The first of the series has started going up and you can see two examples HERE and HERE. Sue has promised to give me a ring so that I can pop down and get the photos from her for members that may want copies. Stunning photographs and well worth a visit to their blog. Those of us who were very naughty and made our respective longhairs pace the passages waiting for us to come home after Gavin Stephens birthday celebrations on the 16th of January choose the prudent route of leaving the club at a respectable hour after enjoying a sosatie roll courtesy of Zurchers Electrical. Recent returnee to the fold, Eugene, apparently took up the cudgels and in a fine display of batting for the home team introduced all and sundry to the Zululand Yacht Club's weapon of choice, the Hand Grenade consisting of various shots of vile alcohol of massive headache inducing proportions. I can only thank my lucky stars that I was safely at home when all this went down! The ABYC deck was full, Port Elizabeth dished out the best weather ever, happy smiling faces and camaraderie - what more do you want out of a mid week break? Don't forget: Dinghy Racing this weekend on Saturday and Sunday. We start at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Round the cans Scimitar Cup on 2nd and 3rd February 2008. THIS IS SAILING on 23rd and 24th February 2008, which is open to the general public. Sien Joe op die water! Full Story »

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