The closing cruise got cancelled last Saturday and we also almost cancelled our sail training. Most of our students had to study for exams and the weather did not look inviting in the morning. Eventually I didn't want to disappoint…
We had a great time at the Club Awards Evening last Saturday. A big thank you to the organizers for hosting this event. The yacht club kindly allocated 24 seats to our students and I thought it might be hard…
We had another one of these very unusual misty, light wind weekends at the RCYC. On Saturday we got 3 boats out for the sail training, with the best breeze we have seen for 4 weeks, topping out at 12kn.…
Just another busy weekend at the RCYC Sailing Academy. Last Saturday we had all 4 boats out for the sail training. After the sail training one of our Lipton teams went out again on Escape, for one additional training session.…
The academy was entering two teams to race the last day of the Glacier by Sanlam Summer Series. Our team on Escape won the two races in our class and even got line honors in the second race, which does…
25 of our academy students have taken part in the Spring Regatta in False Bay and filled various crew positions on a wide mix of boats in all classes. No matter on which boat they were sailing on or which…
The RCYC Sailing Academy in the GAC Laser IRC Nationals: Our RCYC Academy sailing team on Regardless got a big nock just before the IRC Nationals, when two of our students announced that they can’t make the regatta because of…
Congratulations to our academy team for winning their class in style during the RCYC Summer Regatta. They also set a new speed record of 14.5kn, running in flat water. This is an impressive speed on a heavy 26ft yacht, especially…
Hot of the press from the Palermo to Monte Carlo race 2014 on “Music”, by Harry Brehm. When I was asked to do a SAMSA survey on the Swan 53 "Music" in the Med and to take part in the…
Provisionally we have only entered 3 academy boats for the race, even if we had enough students to race on all 4 boats, knowing that there are always drop outs the last minute. Eventually it came as expected and we…