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Images from the 2015 Vasco da Gama

Philip, John and Alan
Philip Scheepers, John Tudehope and Alan Straton with the Dave Cox Memorial Trophy for first boat over the line in the PHRF Class. Not in Picture – Sean Wiseman.

The 2015 Vasco Da Gama Ocean Race hosted by Point and Algoa Bay Yacht Clubs set off from Durban at 12h00 on Saturday 25 April, destination: Port Elizabeth.

17 boats started and 8 boats retired in the gruelling 400 Nautical Mile trip down South Africa’s East Coast.

On arrival in Port Elizabeth, Africa’s friendliest yacht club – ABYC – treated each competitior to breakfast, no matter what time they arrived.

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Results:

IRC Division:

  1. Al Mount Gay – RCYC
  2. Gumption – RCYC
  3. Nemesis – ABYC
  4. Alacrity – ZYC
  5. Majimoto – PYC
  6. Rocket – DAC

PHRF Division:

  1. Star Spirit – FSYC
  2. Wallbanger – ABYC

Multihull Fleet:

  1. Nomad – ZYC

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5O5 Day 1 Results and Images

With two races down and seven to go in this nine race low points series it certainly looks like Holt and Smit are on their way to one more World Title.

Top 3 finishers – Day 1:

  1. Mike Holt and Carl Smit – USA (2 points)
  2. Michael Quirk and Luke Payne – AUS (7 points)
  3. Sandy Higgens and Paul Marsh – AUS (8 points)

Top 3 SA finishers – Day 1:

  1. Peter Funke and Thomas Funke – RSA (8th on 17 points)
  2. James Largier and Richard Hutton-Squire – RSA (12th on 21 points)
  3. Ricky Robinson and Brennan Robinson – RSA (13th on 23 points)

Day One Results: 5o5 Worlds Results Day 1

Images from Day One:

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Regatta Images

The first weekend dinghy regatta of the 2013/14 sailing season is done and dusted.

To see the race reports and results:

Once again I took lots of ‘happy snaps’ over the course of two days and the deal with the images is as follows:

  • I will place images that have been reduced in size on the computer in the bar area
  • You are free to bring your own memory stick and copy them
  • If you want the original images then let me know
  • All I ask in return is that you put a tip in my bar account – Alan Straton

Here is a small sample of images that you can also see on the ABYC Flickr Gallery:

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ABYC Week 2013 Images

Over the next couple of days/weeks/months I will be adding images that have been processed from the thousands available.

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If you want all the images from ABYC week 2013 please leave an empty Memory Stick (at least 4 gigabytes in size) in an envelope in the bar marked for my attention (Alan W. Straton) and with your name and e-mail address on it.

I will transfer all the high res photo’s onto your Memory Stick for you, confirm via e-mail and return it to the bar for collection.

The payment cost is up to you and you can either:

  • Slip some cash into the envelope or
  • Dump some cash into my ABYC bar account or
  • Not pay at all.

Your choice entirely.

 

2013 ABYC Week Images

Over ABYC Week I took a total 978 photographs totaling 2.6 gigabytes.

I have sorted them into daily images and each daily image folder is further sorted into 505, Fleet 1, Fleet 2 and Workers sub folders.

The images are all the original high res versions and are printable.

The image totals for each fleet are:

  • 505’s: 228
  • Fleet 1: 460
  • Fleet 2: 228
  • Workers and Stuff: 62

If you want all the images from ABYC week 2013 please leave an empty Memory Stick (at least 4 gigabytes in size) in an envelope in the bar marked for my attention (Alan W. Straton) and with your name and e-mail address on it.

I will transfer all the high res photo’s onto your Memory Stick for you, confirm via e-mail and return it to the bar for collection.

The payment cost is up to you and you can either:

  • Slip some cash into the envelope or
  • Dump some cash into my ABYC bar account or
  • Not pay at all.

Your choice entirely.

As an example, the original image of Tikalox II below was 3008 x 2000 pixels and 2.9 megabytes in size before being cropped square and reduced to 600 x 600 pixels at 85%  and is now 90.2 kilobytes in size.

Tikalox II
Tikalox II