We started off the week with some sailing on the Bosuns before moving Donna Mia to one of the FBYC moorings while we waited for the crane to lift her out of the water. We assisted the Navy maintenance team with a cleanup of West Yard on Saturday. A few of our students sailed at the Eden District Championships at George Lakes Yacht Club over the weekend where they did us proud.
Tuesday 4.10.22
The day started off with chilly north westerly winds. Students were keen on having some bosun racing on the day. Sadisake Somogule and Sibulele Somaguda joined us on this day as they were visiting family in Masipumalele. These 2 boys are all the way from Nyanga on the Cape Flats, they joined us during the school holidays and couldn't resist to end off thier last day of the school holidays with some sailing.
Wednesday 5.10.22
We moved our L26 Donna Mia to the Navy moorings as she was awaiting to be taken out the water for cleaning and dry storage. We plan on respraying her deck shortly as she is will be sailed in most of the local events. We also want to say big thank you to False Bay Yacht Club for the mooring space they provided as we awaited the crane from the Navy to lift the boat out.
Thursday 6.10.22
I had a meeting with the Navy Seamanship School on the premises as the Navy maintenance teams have not been able to do a clean-up in the Simonstown West Yard due to other commitments. I suggested that we will help where we can to clean-up around our school area as we always did before. We decided we would start this clean-up on the Saturday as we have a bigger group with older students who could assist. We also had the students making lists for repairs of the Mirrors that needed touch ups to the paint jobs and other repairs as our next big events will take place at Theewater Sports Club the first weekend of December and then the 16th to 19th of December on the Vaal Dam at Aeolians Yacht Club.
Friday 7.10.22
We dropped off a few students who would be sailing the Eden District Championships at the George Lakes Yacht Club in Wilderness. Simamkele Mtshofeni was very excited as this would be his first time to travel this far. Howard and Kabelo Leoto were sailing as a team, Shane White was to crew for Grant Ekermans and Simamkele, who is our youngest helmsman, was teaming up with Henning Kock and looking forward to some competitive sailing.
Saturday 8.10.22
We had an early start as we planned on doing a big clean-up around the school, the guys came prepared with overalls and spades. We started pulling out all the patches of grass and packing all broken wood in one area. Many of the old boats from the Navy and on our side we moved as well. The plan is to get a flatbed trailer to get everything taken to the dump in the coming week. We need assistance if anyone has a flatbed trailer to lend us, this would be a big help.
Sunday 9.10.22
The Eden District Champs were a huge success overall and our guys did themselves proud with Howard and Kebelo coming second, Shane third and Simamkele 4th overall.