The South African sailing community has been shaken this week as the tragic news of Cullen Keytel’s passing has been shared.
Our hearts go out to Liza and Bruce, and the Keytel family in this devastating time.
The Keytel family invite the sailing community to join them in celebrating Cullen’s life this Saturday (9 Nov 2019) at Royal Cape Yacht Club, Cape Town.
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Big wave surfer Frank Solomon, a Big wave surfer and marine activist from Cape Town, takes to the streets of Johannesburg to live a day in the life of South Africa’s Street Surfers.This short film follows waste pickers that scour the streets for recyclables that would otherwise end up in our oceans. They are the overlooked heroes of recycling, contributing up to 90% of the country’s recycling efforts.
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Jean Tresfon is a top marine conservation photographer. Here he shares his perspective with us as he capturing alluring and unusual wildlife images.
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Dive master Antonio Zivane from Anantara Bazaruto Island Resort recommends five ocean adventures to add to your diving bucket list when you next visit Mozambique.
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Seafaring and superstitions go together like the Gorton’s Fisherman and a yellow raincoat. There’s just something about the maritime life that seems to inspire trust in supernatural forces. Here’s a few strange superstitions that perhaps even our most avid sailors don’t know.
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The Moorings have added the new state-of-the-art Moorings 5000 to their fleet, and we are beyond excited.
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The 2020 Superyacht Cup Palma has announced the addition of a new performance racing class, presenting superyacht owners with the opportunity to test their thoroughbred vessels in a classic racing format. Sail+Leisure is proud to be an official media partner of this prestigious event.
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Justin Fox is an award-winning travel writer, novelist and photographer based in Cape Town. When he’s not behind a computer or camera, you’ll find him on the water.
Twenty years after securing his first job at Getaway travel magazine as a junior journalist, Justin Fox is back as editor. A travel writer by trade, Fox is hoping once or twice a year to carve out space to write something that he’s really passionate about. -
For more than 35 years Jacobs Bros. has been custom building aluminum yachts for purposes as diverse as cruising the world’s oceans, exploring the Amazon and traversing Holland’s canals. We discover how one man’s challenge to his brothers turned into a family’s niche boatbuilding business.
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South African-born Alon Finkelstein is senior designer for the America’s Cup stars & stripes Team USA – A far cry from his early dinghy sailing days in Gauteng. We caught up with Alon in Holland, Michigan, where the Team USA boat build is underway.
