Heritage Day & the Dive Section

On Tuesday the 24 September, on Heritage day the Dive Section; thanks to Daniel Rodgers who organised & sponsored the dive went out to Santos Reef to see parts of the Galeria Wreck, which went down in the 1800’s.
It was a wonderful peaceful dive, with more than 6 meters visibility and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience
Whilst this was taking place, Danie Smit; Gerrit Dekker, with his wife took time out and had a wonderful dive at the Dollosse.
Afterwards everyone got together and enjoyed a braai, a perfect ending to a wonderful Heritage day.

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Human Power Craft Section

Introduction The Human Power Craft section promote all  aquatic sport, where human power are required to move a craft in the water eg. sea kayaking, surf ski paddling, kayak fishing, rowing and also hopefully in the future SUP boarding. We responsible to manage the club small craft rack , where we can currently accommodate more than 50 crafts. Storing your craft in the rack within meters of a easy launch from the beach next to the club, is really convenient. Week mornings at 06:00 we have a sea kayaking exercise session, where everyone is welcome to join us! Our Rack Accessible…

Saltic 2013

What can I say !!! – After numerous  postponements due to weather and fish stock we launched our boats at 6h00 on Saturday morning. Saltic 2013 here we come. The    weather was beautiful and we all new that the water temperature was low but the expectations was there to catch at least one nice game fish. The disappointment struck me when Jannie on the boat Henrietta was back by 10h30    and running all the way out +/- 22 km looking for something good did not happen.    We can all learn from this avid fisherman that if you don’t get fish…

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Moorings Section

Introduction The MBYBC’s marina is located in the Port of Mossel Bay which is the smallest of the commercial Ports along the South African coast. It is situated halfway between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth at 34°10’44.96″ S | 22°8’28.11″ E. The marina provides 50 walk-on moorings to both members and visitors. All moorings are equipped with fresh water supply and 230 V / 10 A electrical supply. There are three different moorings available, the biggest are suitable for yachts of an overall length up to and including 15 m. Mooring Plan Approach Welcome to the Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat…
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Social Section

Introduction The social section of the MBYBC’s aim and purpose is just what it says - to be social and have a bit of fun!  Many of our members don’t sail, dive, fish or kayak, but rather enjoy being part of a club, where they can make use of the facilities and get together to let their hair down.  Whether you enjoy a braai, picnic, meal at the resturant, round of bingo, sundowners of the deck, dancing, lucky draw, pool competitions, quiz nights or watching your kids play on the jungle gym - we have something to offer. MBYBC Kid’s…

Human Power Craft – September 2013

On an early Tuesday morning, before work, a small group of enthusiastic MBYBC sea kayak – paddlers left with one double and one single kayak on our normal 6km paddle to Diaz and back. I know Mitch reef intimately and in the semi darkness we paddled in the direction of Seal Island to avoid the surf at Mitch and Ding Dang. I thought I heard whale sounds. Later I heard what sounded like waves against the Island far ahead and thought that I must have misheard the whale earlier.  Suddenly I found myself in the midst of lots of splashing…

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News from the President

The past 2 years have been times of building foundations for a long term successful club. To build strong foundations we had to break ground that has been there for a long time which we did and now I believe the foundation is laid and at the 2013 AGM of the MBYBC we made some very big decisions on the clubs future. For those members who were not able to attend I will just summarise some of the important decisions made and the motivations for those decisions. The one that is going to have the highest impact on you as…

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The start of the HPC section at MBYBC

MBYBC at the 2013 AGM adopted a new section , called Human Powered section  or HPC section.This section is responsible for  promoting , paddle, peddle and rowing activities at the club, as well as managing the paddle craft rack at MBYBC. At our first meeting during October 2013  we decided to not overload our committee, We only have three members Danie Smit, representing the recreational sea kayaking,  interest, also the HPC section rear commodore, Kobus Maritz representing competitive surf ski paddling, Jaukie Viljoen representing kayak fishing interest. In order to promote transparency and accountability , we have a information folder…

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