September 2019 Dear Members, SailingPE has officially begun its first sailing season. As with last year the GPS virtual courses are proving to work well with the few boats that have so far entered races completing the courses well on GPS. Please remember to click on the following link to register for racing: https://sailingpe.co.za/sailing-event-registration/ We [...]
Dear Members, Sailing PE is now officially SA Sailing affiliated and is now in a position to pay SA Sailing memberships on members behalves. Due to this, Sailing PE have also taken over the administrative duties of ABYC for keelboat sailing in Port Elizabeth. We will now be applying for Port Licenses, assigning PEYS [...]
Dear Yachties, The 2018/19 prize giving for ABYC was held last weekend. We thank all of you who turned out to support the event and all yachts men and women that contributed to making the season one of the best in several years. Special thanks goes out to Sigi Bailes who drove the prize [...]
Sailing PE has officially entered the Lipton Cup Challenge for 2019. Thanks to the generous sponsorship from Phil Gutsche we have a great team entered. They will be sailing a Cape 31 - Vivaldi, SA 31004 and Skippered by Andrea Giovani, crew by Rick Nankin, Bruce Keytel, Peter Shaw, Nicoli Biakoff and Richard Hutton-Squire. [...]
Adios a Fast 42 recently purchased by John & Gillian Tudehope, bring a enhanced sailing experience to PE. Adios is the sister ship to Nemesis, and will add to the race dynamics in the coming sailing season. Adios arrived 2 weekends ago from East London. She is currently out on the Hard Standing under-going [...]
A massive cold front is approaching Port Elizabeth this coming Friday. Would all boat owners please pop down to the walk-ons and check your mooring lines and fenders. Winds are expected to peak at 50 KTS on Saturday lunch time, along with waves of over 5.5 meters out to sea. There is a large [...]
A new Fareast 28R yacht has arrived in Port Elizabeth and has her sights on being the club champion this coming season. She arrived from China last week and is being prepared to be launched in the week ahead. The proud new owners are Warren Harvey and Mark Dawson. I'm sure any one wanting [...]
South Africa has strict rules on the safety equipment that boats need to carry on board if they are competing in any yacht races, and also if they are intending on sailing offshore (both racing and cruising).
It is the responsibility of the owner or his representative to prepare the vessel for the safety inspection. You need to complete and sign the safety inspection check sheet before the safety survey. The safety officer will refuse to the safety inspection until the check sheets have been completed.
To all Boat Owners, I recently had a discussion with the Port Captain who has issued a stern warning that they intend getting stricter with CoF's, on every vessel in the Port of PE, we have been given a period of 90 days to rectify the backlog, failing which action will be taken against those [...]
