“Talking Sailing” From My Archives. Downham Inter-club

By Richard Crockett

When I tumbled upon the report on the Downham Inter-Club regatta for Dabchicks, I wondered whether the event still takes place today?

Maybe an alter follower of this Blog will have the answer?

The opening paragraph read as follows, and is of interest as many of those mentioned in today’s report are still active sailors.

“Pretoria Sailing Club retained the Downham lnterclub trophy for the eighth successive year. Martin Lambrecht was the most successful skipper from this team and won the individual trophy with three firsts in the five rounds sailed. The other members of Pretoria A’s team were Andrew de Vlieg and Nicky Hooyberg who gave Lambrecht able support.”

READ MORE HERE:  Pages from 1984 05 – SA Yachting – OCR

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