Durban
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Adding a touch of international flavour to yesterday's 505 World Yachting Championships were these flags representing the competing countries. |
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Two entrants in the interpronvincial 505 yachting championships taking place offshore all this week do some emergency repairs soon after launching at Vetch's Pier today. |
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There's simply nothing nicer than messing about in boats. Ratty's words from Toad of Toad Hall, but they sum up this scene at the yacht mole yesterday as skippers and crews prepared for racing in the Mainstay Week. |
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Geoff Meek's Spirit of Avis and Terry Clarence's Assegai round a buoy in the Crystic Challenge yacht racing championships off Durban. |
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From teenage Transvaal run-away to a world-rounded man - Tony Blondell (born Van Niekerk), with his yacht Wayward Wind 2 |
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Mr Dave Cox (right), owner and skipper of Magic Carpet, fills in his entry from for the race watched by Mr. John Cookson, R-Cdre (Keelers) for the Point Yacht Club and chairman of the organising committee. |
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Yachtsman Charles Reynolds who is in an unassailable position in the Flying Fifteen selection regatta with five wins in five races and only one still to be contested. |
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Skipper Peter Southam (also inset), goes up the mast aboard the yacht Panache to right the spinnaker halyard which was jammed before the start of the racing in the Mainstay Week yacht competition off Durban |
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The skipper of Assagai, Terry Clarence, hopes to repeat last year's win. |
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Spinnakers billowing in the wind, two of the yachts competing in the week long Crystic Ocean Challenge set out of the start, offshore from Durban |
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National Flying Fifteen champions Mike Wright (right) and Richard Crockett display their trophies presented at the Royal Natal Yacht Club last night. |
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Spinnakers billowing in the wind, two of the yachts competing in the week long Crystic Ocean Challenge set out of the start, offshore from Durban |
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The former Rear Commodore of the Royal Natal Yacht Club, Mr Richard Crocket (centre), has launched his new Flying 15 yacht in Durban harbour. The 'Financial Folly', was named by the wife of Mr Crockett's partner in the yacht, Mr Mike Wright (right). |
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Gordon Neill...64 and still racing |
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Yachtsman Mark 'Slim' Cawdron catches the Christmas spirit and cools off as he plays with a mini boat in a Durban swimming pool...dreaming of January 12 when he will be crewing the Wesbank in the Cape-to-Uruguay race. |
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Ready for the Vasco da Gama yacht race (from left):Peter vsn Dam, Chris Bonnet, the skipper of Appletiser 1, and Dave Vinnicombe |
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Gunsmoke |
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Lipton Cup |
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Spinnakers billowing, (from left) Warrior, Cape Columbine, Co-ordination (obscured) and Garfunkel tussle for position in Lipton Cup race |