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Algoa Bay Yacht Club – proud host of the 60th SAP 505 World Championships from 23 March to 3 April 2015.
An Algoa Bay Yacht Club selected video tagged ‘505 dinghy world championship’:
This year the 505’s are holding their World Championship regatta on San Francisco Bay. Everyone came expecting big breeze and that’s exactly what they’ve found sailing on the Berkeley Circle in this warm up to the 2009 SAP 505 World Championship. Its clear that there’s a lot of talent in this class and its going to take every bit of their skill to get the job done and hold up the trophy as World Champion for 2009.
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Algoa Bay Yacht Club – proud host of the 60th SAP 505 World Championships from 23 March to 3 April 2015.
From a report on MyPE:
At 9:15 p.m. on Monday 26 October 2009 the gale force winds battering Port Elizabeth became too much for the Algoa Bay Yacht Club (ABYC) Moorings and they snapped around 30 metres from the shore ensnaring the Flamenca, Fandango, belonging to Chad Jackson, between High Spirit (Greg Ochabski) and Talisker (Ian Bancroft).
Further movement of the moorings towards the fishing jetty rendered the walkway impassable, denying boat owners access to their yachts.
At the end of the first mooring leg Rob Butler, on his trimaran Scrimshaw, frantically tried to save his boat from sure destruction as the moorings shifted inexorably closed on his boat in a pincer movement. The high winds and rising waves surging down the channel ground the moorings closed around Scrimshaw and NSRI Rescue 6 Alpha plucked Rob and his son, Andrew, off of Scrimshaw to safety as the boat tilted at a 50 degree angle.
Boat owners scurried frantically back and forth retrieving valuables and inserting fenders in an attempt to stop further damage.
At 11:30 p.m. Patrick, from Port Control, reported wind speeds of 78 knots.
Worried owners paced back and forth watching the howling wind and waves, forced to listen to their boats crying in agony as they scraped against one another and the mooring fingers.
With predictions from Port Control of the wind only abating at 6:00 a.m. weary owners set up a watch system and retired.
Further out in the Harbour, tugs battled to keep a cruise liner in her berth.
It has now been a full five years since that fateful night and the Mooring Company recently announced that they have completed the repairs to the moorings.
A little known fact is that the Yacht Club in a gesture of support for the moorings and as support for the sport of sailing ceased to charge the Moorings for any utilities or services for a period of five years from the time of the disaster.
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