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Article by By Bev Mortimer The racing yacht, Tipsy, that was washed onto rocks at Coffee Bay on Friday night last week, is tragically the second yacht lost by skipper, Jon Marshall, during the voyage home to Durban, on the same section of the Eastern Cape coastline, formerly called Transkei, and after the same race…
The annual Daisy Business Solutions Vasco da Gama Ocean Race provided high drama even after the event.
The oldest coastal ocean race on the South African sailing calendar, the Vasco da Gama, starts in Durban.
Straight from writing her crucial final exam - maritime economics - on Friday, Nqobile Khuzwayo (19) will be embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime journey. On Saturday she’ll be heading to Cape Town International airport, to fly for the first time ever, when she boards an international flight from Cape Town, via Dubai to Dakar in Senegal, to join the all-female crew on Maiden, to help sail the 18m aluminium yacht down the West Coast of Africa and into the Port of Cape Town.
The NSRI rescued the five crew members who had to abandon the yacht Majimoto. Image: Flickr/NSRI A yacht crew was rescued after getting into difficulty off Cape Morgan in the Transkei on Friday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said. East London station commander Cathrine Prentis said the duty crew was activated after a request for assistance from the yacht Majimoto, which had been relayed by a fellow yachtsman to East London port control, reporting the yacht to be taking on water. The yacht was returning to Durban from East London after taking part in the Vasco...