Yacht Club Open Day ~ 1972

[Michael Alexander]

Not sure, if I have already posted this snap.......all the way from 1972..... Just look at all those people.... all that activity.........

[Patricia Lotte]

Check how high the water level was back then. Oh, those were the days ... What great memories of weekends spent at the yacht club.
 

[Alfred Boehme]

I'm sure Uncle Peet is behind the steering of the little boat?

[John Creedy]

That is Peet.  Have not heard that name in a while now.  I could have been at that event....  Thanks for the memory and name.

[Michael Alexander]

Which Peet? Bezuidenhout?

[Alfred Boehme]

Spot on Mike he was a mechanic at town garage and his wife ran the dry cleaners aunty Marlene Andre's mom and dad

[lkdp]

 Yip, that's my Dad & our speedboat - Peet + Kalahari Ferrari - see Aunty Barbara Pretorius (with hat on ) loading my boetie Andrè into back of speedboat LOL!!!

[Bertie Horak]

That's the day this 6-year-old kicked a piece of wood just under the water - it turned out to be a rusty piece of metal - still have the scar!  But yes, great fun at those events.
@ Lynette - did you stay in E9/11 then?

[Michael Alexander]

Sorry, I'm not being  whatever the word is..... but I thought that the Yacht Club was an "english and one Frenchman " club back in the day........

Have I got this wrong.....?

[Alfred Boehme]

Both my bothers where sailers in those days and I remember all sorts of people there

[lkdp]

@ Bertie...my grandparents, Jack & Doreen De Lange lived at E9/11, but as my Nan 'day-cared' us - we pretty much grew up there. To the best of my recollection you lived across the street???

[Bertie Horak]

Yes, Lynette, you're right.  We stayed across the street in E10/11.  Spent the first 11 years of my life there... Great memories living in 11th ave!

[Alfred Boehme]

All the cool dudes lived in 11th ave

[Patricia Lotte]

I agree Alfred ... we were E42-11th ... 

[Denise Smith]

Yes that's my mom loading Andre' into Kalahari Ferrari.  My Dad's boat "Chopper" is in the background, the one with the stripes.  Everyone went to the Yacht Club in those days, a very eclectic crowd. 
Those were great days, a wonderful place to grow up.