ARC Round the World Rally starters gun

Did I say gun? Hout Bay uses a real cannon,no messing around here with little pop guns.

Thats a splendid view of the fleet down on the start line.

The event was last saturday and 12 noon the HBYC did the usual starters countdown on VHF channel 71,this was monitered by the firing crew up on East Fort cannon emplacement,the first thing we know is a puff of smoke,followed later by the sound of the cannon,I wonder did any other ARC fleet have such a splendid send off?

My thanks to who ever took the two cannon pictures,which I found at http://www.hbyc.co/  check the page out for full news updates on the ARC fleets stopover.The good news is the entry book for the 2012 ARC Around the World Rally is now open and some 19 entries have already been recieved,plus the HBYC has been penciled in as the stop of choice in the Cape.

Photo by R McBride

Yacht (oyster)  A Lady was third over the line but was soon in front,then dropped down to eighth but she was second overall as of yesterday and doing around 200 miles a day on the trip to St Helena Island.