Left click on any image to view full size and see more detail, all pictures taken by Roy McBride with a Canon SLR FT camera fitted with a 200mm tele, lens.
The late Keith Fenn aboard his Moonchild tied up to the SBYC dock,which is just off the boats bow.
Moonchild has been in the cape for many years, memory tells me it arrived in Hout Bay Harbour from Knysna with a family of four on it, they prepared for a blue water cruise but never went.
Keith Fenn later bought the boat, the picture of Moonchild in the water and at the dock at Saldahna Bay Yacht Club, shows her as the boat was when Keith owned her.
He later came to grief at the False Bay Yacht Club, when he fell overboard and was drowned.
Keith and I knew each other well, we were even moored together in Rio de Janerio at the Marina Gloria, Brasil. He had cruised over with his wife Pat, they had a slow return voyage back to Cape Town, fifty two days I remember, it was a wet trip I think. The boat as you see it stripped bare, is when Peter Thuinessen owned her (still does?) and at the Royal Cape Yacht Club facility at the Elliot Basin Stripped bare of her paints, she shows you why we do not build boats like this any more,its just so labour intensive,you could build two of our Didi 38 kits in the time it takes to build this design!
November 26th 2015.
Some years later (many) the boat can now be found in the HBYC boat park, it is a sorry sight but quite repairable I think.
Roy.
The late Keith Fenn aboard his Moonchild tied up to the SBYC dock,which is just off the boats bow.
Moonchild has been in the cape for many years, memory tells me it arrived in Hout Bay Harbour from Knysna with a family of four on it, they prepared for a blue water cruise but never went.
Keith Fenn later bought the boat, the picture of Moonchild in the water and at the dock at Saldahna Bay Yacht Club, shows her as the boat was when Keith owned her.
He later came to grief at the False Bay Yacht Club, when he fell overboard and was drowned.
Keith and I knew each other well, we were even moored together in Rio de Janerio at the Marina Gloria, Brasil. He had cruised over with his wife Pat, they had a slow return voyage back to Cape Town, fifty two days I remember, it was a wet trip I think. The boat as you see it stripped bare, is when Peter Thuinessen owned her (still does?) and at the Royal Cape Yacht Club facility at the Elliot Basin Stripped bare of her paints, she shows you why we do not build boats like this any more,its just so labour intensive,you could build two of our Didi 38 kits in the time it takes to build this design!
November 26th 2015.
Some years later (many) the boat can now be found in the HBYC boat park, it is a sorry sight but quite repairable I think.
Roy.
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