Sail Training

You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them. It was only two weeks that I didn’t see my students and I started to miss them already. Despite the huge age gap between us, there is a kind…

With the Lipton Cup 2014 behind us, nobody can deny that Greg Davis and his RCYC team have earned the cup this year. They have been clinical in their Lipton campaign, their boat preparation was impeccable, the crew selection was…

All academy activities have stopped for students who are not involved in the Lipton Cup since our 4 academy boats are being raced in Lipton. Escape and B&G by our own students and the other two from outside teams. A…

Nine L26 youth teams were competing in the Youth Regatta at the RCYC this weekend. Light westerly on Saturday and a stronger NW on Sunday allowed a total of 6 races. The organizers of the event did have a slick…

Saturday we had all 4 boats sailing again after most of our students had finished their exams. The plan was to keep all academy boats as close as possible together. Not as easy as I thought. We never had more…

Busy days at the RCYC in our sailing academy. We had 3 boats entered in the Portugal Race and on Sunday we had our Homestead boys coached by Linsay Oberholzer. 4 L26 and 47 bigger yachts made it to the…

I am like a proud father if our students manage to get the boats prepped, select their teams for the day and help each other while they are doing the sail training. It is so much better if they learn…

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.…