Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
Today’s newspaper cutting is one I simply had to share as the Sunday Tribune gave the 1968 Saldanha Bay nationals a full page of coverage! Today local newspapers are hardly interested in out sport as the attitude adopted is very often simply this: “If you can’t hit it or kick it, it’s not sport!”.
The open few paragraphs of this mighty spread read as follows: “The national Yachting Regatta is over, and Saldanha Bay has once more returned to the quiet fishing village it usually is.
“The way things look at present, the village will stay quiet – missing the bustling, rousing activity the national regatta has brought with it for years.
“The residents of the village will probably never again see a gigantic sail-past of 300 yachts on the lovely Hoedjies-baai. The yachting authorities have ended all this for Saldanha Bay by deciding that in future the various classes will hold their regattas at different times and at different places.
“Although the l968 regatta, held at the end of March, was likely to be the last, it must surely rank as one of the greatest ever held.”
“The highlight of the regatta was the private duel between the German Willi Kuhweide and the Dane, Paul Elvstrom, in the international Finn race. Elvstrom, four times a gold-medal winner at the Olympics, and Kuhweide, last year’s World Champion gold medal winner at Tokyo, turned the crowded Finn races into a private affair.”
SEE THE PICS & READ THE FULL REPORT HERE: 1968 04 14 – Sunday Tribay Tribune – Don Pfotenhauer Collection – stitched – 000018-1 – OCR
