Point Yacht Club

📰🗞 We Made The News... 🗞📰

🎉🎊 It has been a while since a sailing headline has adorned a lamp post in KZN!!! 🎊🎉

Thank you to all the publications that shared our fantastical story of Thomas Funke being awarded the SA Sailing's Owen Aisher Trophy. Thank you Independent on Saturday; Sail World; Yachts and Yachting; The North Coast Courier (and for the headline street pole poster); Berea Mail and Time Out Durban for carrying the article with Christophe Favreau's gorgeous pic of Thomas and Peter competing in the 505 Worlds in Hayling Island.

Please join us next Sunday as we open up our Summer Sailing Season with the 13th Bart's Bash.

⏰ Start @ 09:00
⛵ Barts Bash after Sail Pass
🍻 Drinks in Charlie’s

Don't forget to register online for Bart's Bash 13!
Sign up today to receive our latest updates and be ranked alongside other participants from across the globe. We'll be sharing our leaderboard after the event so you can see where you've placed.
Connect with a global sailing community and set sail with us for Bart's Bash 13 💚
Click here to register your spot: https://www.bartsbash.com/sign-up

🎩🕴👗👑 Have some fun and dress you, your crew & your boat up... 👑👗🕴🎩

🗓 Then looking ahead, sailors - make a note:
🖊️ PYC will host the second Twilight Sail of the season on Wednesday 21 October
🖊️ ILCA Nationals: 24 - 27 April 2027
🖊️ 56th Vasco da Gama: 7 - 11 May 2027
🖊️ 505 KZN Regionals: 13 - 15 June 2027
🖊️ 50th MSC Week: 3 - 9 July 2027

🎉🎂🎊And not forgetting we turn 135 on Friday 14 May 2027!!! 🎊🎂🎉

Next week sees the opening of our Summer Sailing Season with the 13th Bart's Bash on Sunday 13th September

⏰ Start @ 09:00
⛵ Barts Bash after Sail Pass
🍻 Drinks in Charlie’s

Don't forget to register online for Bart's Bash 13!

Sign up today to receive our latest updates and be ranked alongside other participants from across the globe. We'll be sharing our leaderboard after the event so you can see where you've placed.

Connect with a global sailing community and set sail with us for Bart's Bash 13 💚

Click here to register your spot: https://www.bartsbash.com/sign-up

🎩🕴👗👑 Have some fun and dress you and your boat up... 👑👗🕴🎩

🗓 Then looking ahead, sailors - make a note:
📝 PYC will host the second Twilight Sail of the season on 21 October
📝 ILCA Nationals: 24 - 27 April 2027
📝 56th Vasco da Gama: 7 - 11 May 2027
📝 505 KZN Regionals: 13 - 15 June 2027
📝 50th MSC Week: 3 - 9 July 2027

🎉🎂🎊And not forgetting we turn 135 on Friday 14 May 2027!!! 🎊🎂🎉

Howz this throwback...

Any suggestions of what year this was?

A picture shared on the Facebook Group called Durban History and Stories, posted a couple of days about by Brett Thevenau.

The caption reads:
'Victoria Embankment with an old mellow yellow cop van going past the entrance to Point Yacht Club.
Spent many years of my youth playing and swimming there. Actually learnt to sail dingys there.'

Go check their group out, so many interesting photos of our city.

And finally, caps off to Nolutando Radebe for being recognised too.

She earned the acknowledgement of Up and Coming Race Official / Officer for 2025.

Having spent hours on the bridge boat at various events, the sailors appreciate you for all that you do for their sport here in Durban.

This is only the second time the award has been issued, and it is for a new up and coming person in the area of race and regatta management, and is for an official who tireless gives of their time to effectively ensure that sailing races and regattas are well run from club level or higher.

On behalf of all of us at Point Yacht Club - thank you for what you do Noluthando.

📷from the Love Sailing Campaign by Sophie Thompson

To our outgoing Rear Commodore of Keelers, Anthony Howes - well done and thank you!

We thank you for EVERYTHING you have done for us over your two years heading up keelers and of course, the MSC Week.

What a send off - being recognised by SA Sailing for all your behind the scenes work that you have done to support our club and sport. Congratulations on receiving the Stan Jeffrey Trophy yesterday evening!

The Stan Jeffrey Trophy is the annual award to a single South African Yachtsman or Yachtswoman, who is considered to have made the most meritorious or outstanding individual contribution to the administration of the sport.

And now... you get to go sailing for the pure love of it! We look forward to seeing you and Gambit on the water.

📷 Gambit pic from Day four of MSC Week by Shane Elliot
📷 Love Sailing image from the V Day Campaign by Sophie Thompson

Wonderful news to receive first thing on a Friday morning!

Thomas Funke - hearty congrats to you for being recognised by South African Sailing and being awarded the Owen Aisher Trophy for SAS Sailor of the Year 2025.

Thomas said he was incredibly honoured to receive this award and thanked his family for their support over the years.

Thomas - sincerely - well done!!!!

We at Point Yacht Club are so very proud of you!

📷 Thomas and Peter Funke sailing at Hayling Island's 505 Worlds by Christophe Favreau

Do join us tomorrow!

Have your say, be the change - see you at our main club for our Annual General Meeting.

🗓 Saturday 29 August
⏰ 11.00 - 12.00
📍Islander Room

📰🗞 Read all about it 🗞📰

Thank you to Sail-World for featuring our wrap up of the PYT ILCA KZN Regionals.

⛵ We always appreciate the support and coverage. ⛵

Their leading image is of Blake Madel powering through a swell, during day one.

Here is the link:
https://www.sail-world.com/news/298853/ILCA-KZN-Regionals-at-Durban?source=email

In the news...

Thank you Lauren Anthony for featuring young Dani Cantarelli in Time Out Durban.

We so appreciate the coverage.

https://www.timeout.com/durban/news/meet-the-17-year-old-kzn-sailor-making-waves-from-midmar-to-portugal-081326

Pic of Dani from this past weekend competing in the PYT ILCA KZN Regionals