
By Richard Crockett
I do enjoy sharing features about people who taste our sport for the very first time and instantly fall in love with it.
“It’s tough discovering you are passionately addicted to sailing – 600 km from the sea.
“Somehow the prospect of landlocked Hartbeespoort Dam isn’t quite the same as a stiffish breeze coming straight across the Indian Ocean from Australia, white tipped waves on a deep blue sea, and the view of Durban’s Bluff receding over the horizon.”
These were the words of Angela Petricevic who had won a week’s sailing course in a magazine competition.
READ MORE HERE: 1996 05 29 – pretoria news – S&A – 382 – OCR