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Vasco 2021

Start making plans! Organised by the Point Yacht Club and Clube Naval, under the auspices of South African Sailing, the always epic Vasco da Gama International Ocean Race from Maputo, Mozambique to Durban will get under way on Thursday, 20 May 2021.
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Fri 30 Oct 2020

Sailing Management Webinar Series

Our next webinar will be covering the “New Rules”. The Racing Rules of Sailing are updated every four years, and the new rules come into effect on 1 January 2021. Join our four resident International Judges presenters Lance Burger, Alan Keen, Luke Scott and David Hudson for a 60-minute webinar highlighting the most significant changes in the 2021-2024 rules at 19:00 on Thursday 26 November.
Fri 30 Oct 2020

Sailing Wins Big at Wits Sports Awards

The future of sailing is clearly in good hands – judging by the recipients at the annual Wits Sports Awards. The sport celebrated several major accolades, including Michaela Robinson being named as the university’s Sports Woman of the Year. Adding to that massive achievement, the Wits Yacht Club walked away with the Social Media Award while five sailors were awarded Full-Blue Cum Laude colours usually reserved for student athletes who have achieved senior national colours...
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Thu 29 Oct 2020

President's Update - The Value Proposition

And, as was no doubt inevitable, I was asked about a “value proposition” for South African Sailing. Of course I had to Google the concept, to be sure that I did not embarrass myself in the subsequent discussions, and as my knowledge grew, so I became more and more convinced that the formally defined “value proposition” was not where the real value of a membership of SA Sailing lay. My thought process went like this:....
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Thu 29 Oct 2020

A proudly African Candidate for the Role of Vice President of World Sailing

We’re thrilled to throw our full support behind former SA Sailing President Philip Baum, who is standing for election to the position of Vice President of World Sailing. “Thanks to your encouragement and the nomination of South African Sailing, I am standing as a VP candidate in World Sailing’s elections this November,” said Philip.
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Tue 06 Oct 2020

SA Sailors Qualifying for eSailing World Championships

Four South African virtual sailors have qualified to compete against the best in the world in the eSailing World Championship. We caught up with SA’s top-ranked eSailor Pedro De Mello Machado (DaMoose) to find out all about it…
Tue 06 Oct 2020

Recreational Sailing in the Spotlight – Holiday 23s

While much of the focus is often on the competitive side of the sport, thousands of sailors around the country are purely in it for the enjoyment and having a whole lot of fun on the water – and off it. The perfect example is the Holiday 23 group on the Vaal. Allan Rosenberg shared some of the always-entertaining goings on of the group in this photo story… (apparently, as our President mentioned, even being part of their super-active WhatsApp group is a blast)…
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Tue 06 Oct 2020