Sailing Magazine
by Richard Crockett
Having dispensed with the greeting and my wishes for 2024 I can now reveal how excited I am to have received, on Christmas Eve, Bruce Dalling’s archives to digitise and add to my already extensive sailing archives.
There is several months of work involved, so if I go awol at times, I won’t be lost at sea, but will simply have my head down beavering away and enjoying learning more about this incredible man.
One small snippet jumped out at me which I feel is appropriate to share today. It goes like this: On the day Dalling and Voortrekker left Cape Town to sail to the start of the OSTAR, the festivities off Cape Town were buzzing with everyone wanting to get in on the act, including the Lighthouse Keeper of Mouille Point Lighthouse. He sent a message in Morse Code to Dalling on the lighthouse fog horn. It simply read Good Luck.
I wonder if today’s Lighthouse Keepers would think outside the box like that, or whether modern technology and bureaucracy prevents it?
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READ THE SNIPPET HERE: 1968 03 05a – Cape Times – Bruce Dalling Archives – 002333 – OCR_Redacted
