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Madagascar—Exotic Fishing Destination

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Seaport & Yzerfontein Boat & Angling Club Partners—Yellowtail Challenge 2015

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Chris Bertish—Not just your average “Surfer

Dude”

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RCYC Lipton Cup Challenge 10-17 July 2015—Table Bay

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RASSPL and the Gouritz

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Fishing Report by Ismail Sonday FishMate of the Month—Rudolph Terblanche

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Tips and Stuff—Deon Coetzer

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Local is Lekker! - Ski-Boat Mobile Andrew Perrins

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Notice Board—see what is happening where this month!

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Last Say—Mariska Coetzer

Before we get going onto

JULY 2015...

When we initially started NewsPort in July 2014, we never anticipated the awesome positive feedback & response to this publication. What started off as a free information and news source to you, our loyal client, became a ‘must have’ publication overnight. Still free and very informative. Readers rolled in and today we are standing on an amazing 3 digit readership. This alone makes every second putting it together worth while. News and contributions from the public, from all over the world left us in awe! Can not say thank you enough! So we here go—round 12…

This month we are covering Exotic Destinations, ie, Mitsio, Madagascar. Matthew Preen did the tick on the Bucket List and shared his story in his own words with us –thank you for the contribution Matthew.

Seaport Supply Cape Town decided to partner up with Yzerfontein Boat Angling Club this year with the Yellowtail Challenge 2015 during the long weekend in August. Exciting times! Keep an close eye on our Social Media Platforms for more information—all I can say is the prizes are overwhelming, which includes a R12k Garmin Combo Unit!

Dr Fish is our local reporter on where to fish and what were caught out where.

A very important topic that always needs attention is Safety at sea. Andrew Perrins explains more about “Ski-Boat Mobile, a new initiative to keep anglers safe at sea.

Chris Bertish, a big wave surfer, attempted a new world record in Mozambique. He started Thursday and fin-ished on Friday, 3 July 2015.

And then last, but not least, Garmin is giving away a super awesome Virb Elite—read more about it.

Send me your excitement and we’ll share it with mind-liked enthusiasts!

Joy! Have a ‘lekker’ read until next month!

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‘So many anglers have their sight set on an exotic fishing destination. Some might have already visited the African bor-ders already. Some have it on their bucket list for some day... A few anglers, with Matthew Preen on board, decided that it was time to tick Madagascar off their bucket list... Destination? Mitsio Archipela-go, Madagascar. Nosy Mitsio is an island off the north west coast of Madagascar. The Nosy Mitsio Archipelago lies 70 kilometres north of Nosy Be and is only accessible by boat. Skimming over the water you often glimpse bottle nosed dolphins and green turtles but the arrival is even more breath-taking, as you slow amongst tiny tropical islands, lush with tropi-cal vegetation and necklaced with powder-white beaches. The archipelago is made up of about a dozen islands. La Grande Mitsio is the largest is-land with the small farming vil-lages of Antakarana and Akala-va. Tsarabanjina is beautiful with volcanic rocks, palms and badamier trees and four gently shelving beaches. Intro on where done and dust-ed, over to Matthew Preen to tell his story in his own words of his adventure in May/June of this year—how he experienced Mitsio—Madagascar”.

‘In September last year I was invited to go to Madagascar, Mitsio archipelago. A place I have been wanting to go to for a long time, having heard stories of mon-ster GT’s and the elusive dog-tooth amongst other of my target species being sailfish and Marlin.

After accepting the invite I was introduced to Dr Carl De Koening one the most fanatical fisherman you will meet and who has the energy of a Vervet monkey. Carl had been to Mitsio twice previous-ly, and had on both occasions caught very good fish mainly jig-ging, but with fish also being caught plugging and popping.

Having a guy with experience of the operators and the conditions was a godsend, and I would strongly suggest that anyone go-ing on a trip like this has someone in the group that can give you tips on what tackle is needed along with expectations of what the place will offer.

So with that said a lot of planning went into tackle, specifically jigs and the pairing of these with the right rods and reels. The guys in Madagascar were all about “flash” i.e. they liked shiny jigs. The more shine the better as the color did not seem to be as important as the so called “flash”.

Fortunately Carl had this infor-mation, so we then went about putting bulk orders together and even went as far as importing specific jigs, lures and terminal tackle that we struggled to find locally. CONTINUE PAGE 4

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I might add at this point that I chatted to some guys that had just come back from Mitsio before we left, and they were disappoint-ed in the equipment they had tak-en. The guys had bought inferior equipment which had packed up after the first day or two… A trip like this can be a once in a life experience and just the cost of getting to places like Mitsio can be an expensive affair. Don’t skimp on tackle - buy the best you can, even if when you get back from your trip you sell at a dis-count and then treat it like it has been hired.

Madagascar’s ocean is alive with activity, you are never bored with what it offers up, and everything is different, you never know what you going to catching as the spe-cies are so diverse.

We booked our trip through the group Tropical Fishing. They run three boats of 22’ to 25’ in length, they are run with single engines 140 and 175 Suzuki four strokes. The boats are nicely laid out and we never felt like we were on top of each other.

Every boat had a skipper and a deck hand, the guys were very knowledgeable and although there were many times that the communication was lost in trans-lation, the skippers definitely got the message across.

There is plenty to learn in the technique and the skippers want you to fish their way, which at times contradicted one’s own skill. Although at times I got a little frus-trated I learnt a huge amount. These guys do this day in and day out, and the guys from Tropical put you on fish and want you to catch.

Every morning we would start at 8am, the first objective was to get bait, this entailed casting at big shoals of Bonita and Skipjack. Although I say the shoals were big we found it very challenging to catch these fish, and although it was frantic surface action we defi-nitely worked hard to get our fish.

We were mainly casting small spinners which the fish went for on a very fast retrieval, the inten-tion was to have the spinner bouncing along the surface, the boat skippers liked to throw abuse if you were not doing it right.

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I am not sure how much money we saved here but it did help organizing who had what, and I think in the end we were very close to having the perfect mix.

On the Rods and reels it’s important to understand that a trip like this is not for the faint hearted, its long hours on the boat, jig, jig and more jigging in water ranging from 45m to 180m which takes its toll on the body, in my opinion for a trip like this I would go with a medium heavy set up and an extra heavy setup. The reason for this is that you spend a lot of time catching the 10 to 15kg class fish which might add up to 50 fish a day. I only had an extra heavy set up and felt most of the time that I was over gunned. You definitely do need the heavier setup when targeting the dogtooth tuna I will elaborate a little further in ….

Plugging and popping, the ideal set-up here would be a 14000 Stella reel with a Kiabutsu rod or the Dogfight reel and Saltiga rods that Diawa make.

Alternatively some of the guys had the Saragossa 10 000 which more than handled anything that was thrown at us. Lastly on the tackle side you need a light spinning outfit, as the morning fishing is often taken up with catching bait i.e. bonnie and skipjack.

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This was definitely one of the high-lights of the trip as I think it’s im-portant to realize the beauty of a place like Madagascar, and to real-ize how privileged you are to expe-rience it.

After lunch the fishing seemed to get better as the one skipper men-tioned that it’s all about the light, I am not sure why, but where you would see plenty fish on the bottom in the morning which at times would not feed, the afternoons they then came alive.

Often we would have times were the sea was abuzz with activity from sailfish on the surface to Cou-ta jumping meters out of the sea. On one particular evening we had some very tall fishing stories of fish jumping as high as 30 meters into the sky!

I went to Madagascar with the aim of catching GT on a popper, I was very fortunate to have the oppor-tunity fishing an area right up against an island in water of 7 to 15m. Throwing a popper as the sun is setting can’t get much better.

I guess in that setting the fish was going to be the bonus, throwing a Halco rooster popper into a shoal of bait fish and having a beast of a GT come up after it was very excit-ing to see, especially when your first two hits don’t hook up and then on his third very aggressive attempt the hook sets and the fun starts!!!

The GT has only one objective when he gets hooked up and that is to reef you, which makes them such a challenge in shallow water. This was new to me as I have be-come used to hooking up on Yel-lowfin Tuna and having 1000m of water to play with. This particular fish came straight at the boat which probably made the fight relatively short lived. In the end it probably only took 10 minutes. The result was a 35/40kg GT which made my trip and would be one of the rea-sons I would go back

In conclusion, Mitsio is a definite bucket list destination. Tropical Fishing are very good operators and the food and hospitality was first class. The accommodation at the lodge was very comfortable and the layout of the lodge made it a very enjoyable experience.

MATTHEW PREEN

Once we had the bait it was time to hit the reefs and drop offs, it’s quite incredible to look at the chart plotter and see what the skippers have as a choice. I think if I recall correctly, the one boat had 240 waypoints. The three skippers tend to do their own thing and don’t talk to each other at sea at all, which in my opinion was strange. I can only attribute this to the competitive nature be-tween the skippers.

The inner reefs are all depths of 40m to 70m and are roughly 8 to 10 miles out to sea. The objective here was to jig and try create a frenzy of bait fish with your jigs combined working the water. Once we got this right we seemed to go on at the same time - one, two, three, all tight.

We found that most of the fish would give you a good pull to start but after a certain depth would run out of steam, this may because of the thermocline and the fact that the sea temperature was 30 de-grees. Alain the owner of Tropical felt it was only the surface layer that warm.

We caught all different species from different types of Snapper, Rock Cod, Job Fish and of course all the different Kingfish. The stock levels of Giant Trevally seem to be very healthy as we caught so many that at times you felt like putting your rod down.

That said I think it’s relevant to say that we had our quite times and even quite days for the odd boat. Most days entailed the 8am start then catching bait which was followed by jigging and then we would have lunch - sometimes at sea, other times we would come onto a small island with a little secluded beach.

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Surfers. What comes to mind is guys in board shorts sitting on an island ’chilling’, thinking out their own vocabulary during ’sets’, sur-rounded by beach bronze bodies in bikinis. Boards planted in the sand for a quick paddle when the set comes in. Sponsorships and a ’laid back life’….. 90% correct if you watch enough ’Baywatch’ reruns on the ‘Telly’ and have no background as to what it takes to be a world famous Big Wave Surf-ing champion, competing against other world champions. Surfing waves the size of a 4-5 storey building. So if you are office bound, and your are approximate-ly on the 4th, 5th floor—go out-side, stand on the balcony and look down. An average day ’at the office’ for Chris Bertish. The man that ’walks’ on water, set records, ambassador of NPO’s that feeds the hungry, author, a trend setter, a life couch & motivational speak-er for the past two decades. A true legend! Chris is a frequent shopper at Seaport Supply Cape Town and recently popped in for equipment for his next mission. He attempted late last week a New World Rec-ord in SUP (stand up paddling) at Vilanculos, Mozambique, did a 138.4km in 24 Hours on his Stand Up Paddle Board. A new African, and South African record. Like they say—more people go to the moon, than attempting this record on the open ocean on a SUP. Chris finished his attempt on Fri-day, 3 July 2015 just after 15:00 and this was his report shortly after he finished: “I am so stoked to have finally completed this record, its feels like a large monkey/small gorilla off my back after all of the previ-ous attempts this year. The conditions were far more ex-treme than we had originally thought,

and early this morning with the winds constantly blowing me back towards the shore, I am just thrilled to have finished. All of our planning worked per-fectly and I am amazed at how strong I feel at the finish! I just want to say a HUGE thank you to you, everyone who supported me, especially Farm Film Productions and Island Tribe, as well as my right hand man on the boat, Darren Robertson, for all of your help, support and encour-agement over the 24hrs!”

‘According to Chris – he is just an ordinary guy, but when you realize what he has accomplished in the past 2 decades is more than most people could accomplish in two lifetimes. Chris’s love of the sea and all things water has seen him take some of the biggest titles and accolades in this sporting sphere in the last 14 years, with some of them being Winning the Mavericks Big Wave Invitational title in the beiggest surf in history and the more recent smashing of 3 World Records in under a year and winning the Adventurer of the year award for 2014. Some of Chris’s other highlights include: • XXL Swell.com Award – Biggest Wave Paddled in the World in 2000. Todos Santos • First person to paddle in at Jaws, Peahi, Hawaii 2001 • Nellscott Big Wave Tow in event, Oregon, 5th place 2005 • Red Bull Big Wave Africa, 3rd place 2007 • Nellscott Big Wave event, Oregon, 3rd place 2009 • First person to SUP Nellscott Reef, Oregon, 2009 Mavericks Big Wave Invitational, Half Moon Bay, California, Winner 2010, surfed in the biggest conditions that the contest has seen since its inception

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• Nellscott Big Wave event, Ore-gon, 2nd place 2010 • First person to SUP Dungeons, 2010 • First person to surf Seal Island, 2010 • South African Surfing Awards: Pushing the Boundary Award, 2011 • Big Wave World Tour, 3rd place finish 2011 (after only surfing 3 of 5 events) • Invite/Competitor – Eddie Aukia Big Wave Invitational, Hawaii 2012 SUP World Championships, Peru, 9th place Distance, Feb 2012 • TEDx Sea Point, Guest Speaker, March 2012 • First ever solo, unsupported, un-assisted paddle 325km SUP: West Coast of South Africa, Jan 2013 • SUP World Championships, Pe-ru, 7th place Wave Riding, March 2013 • Mavericks Big Wave Invitational – Half Moon Bay, California, 6th place March 2013 • First ever Source-to-Sea Adven-ture: River Thames, England – Run 20km/Paddle 243km/Cycle 42km, Aug 2013 • New English Channel World Record: SUP – 5:26:03, Sept 2013 • Runner-up – Adventurer of the Year Award – Global SUP Awards in USA, October 2013 • Open Ocean 12-Hour Guinness World Record – 130.1km/12 hours: SUP 17 Dec 2013 • Nightjar People’s Choice- Adven-turer of the Year award 2014 -May 2014.

Chris applies all these trials, tribu-lations and joys into an inspiring and moving story. To make them believe that they too can. He travels all over the world inspiring audiences to achieve great things with the right Self-belief, Focus and Never give up attitude. It’s just a matter of choice. In addition to Chris’s global keynote address-es, to massive Corporates like Nedbank, Old Mutual, Spa Group & Southern Wines Group in the USA, he is also a past TEDx and FEAT guest speaker. Chris has a motto that captures his attitude to both overcoming struggle and achievement. “Dream it, See it, Believe it, Achieve it.” It’s that simple and he has proven time and again that if you truly believe in something and you set your sights on that goal – no mat-ter how big – if you work hard at it, stay focused, determined, resili-ent and never give up, you can achieve anything, as he says “Nothing is Impossible, unless you believe it to be…” Chris Bertish. For more info on Chris and book-ing him, please visit his website on: www.ChrisBertish.com For more info on Chris please visit www.chrisbertish.com. You can also follow Chris on Facebook and Twitter.

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‘With our season starting on the 25th of July we decided to have a warm up session down in Mosselbay with the Southern Cape Great Whites for their first comp on the 6th of June. They say fishing is like riding a bicycle but competitive angling requires us to keep practicing. Learning new skills and honing our already overflowing array of tactics and presentations. Gouritz required us to think outside the box on numerous occasions. Most people think we go to the water, cast our bait in and we wait, on the contra-ry fishing in today's time is not what it used to be 20 years ago, stories of guys catching record catches daily with hand lines and 5m casts is a thing of years gone by today we need to know conditions, have the ability to read water, choose the freshest bait and also have the tackle to withstand firstly the fish you are targeting and secondly the structure you are fishing in. Our first time fishing Gouritz and it tested our tackle to the extreme. There comes a point in every fisher-man's day that their mind just says that enough is enough but fishing in the RASSPL arena on the other hand doesn't give you that luxury. You are pushed to your mental limit and physi-cal breaking point until the last minute of every comp. As we walked in the dark through Reins Nature Reserve, our excitement ran high with anticipa-tion of what might lay ahead. With most guys spread about 100m apart we chose a nice working gulley run-ning off a reef with just enough white working water to keep us interested. A multitude of fresh bait hit the water such as sand prawns, red prawns, octopus, squid and bloodworm just to name a few. As the day drew on a pattern emerged as the sand prawn combo mixed with any of the other baits raised the most enquiries. Catches for the day included Bronze Bream, White Mussel Cracker, Black tail, Zebra and Red Roman. The catches were not what made this place so memorable, it was the amount of fish hooked and lost on the reefs and the amount of tackle never to be returned was an eye opener. This place is tough on your tackle so don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

All in all it was a great trip with many new experiences and a big learning curve. Putting us in good standing for our first competition in Cape Town in July.

With our area set as Macassar till Cape Point Nature Reserve the varie-ty of spots and target species is great. Most of us over the years as anglers have learnt many things from many different sources such as books, the Internet or fellow anglers with different results for each of us. With RASSPL as many experienced guys will tell you, the key to a successful day is to keep it simple. It doesn't matter how much limited sliding traces you have in your box or how many yellow tail heads you have in your freezer. At-tack the day in the way you feel com-fortable, a competition is not the time to go test new theory's. it is a day for you to showcase and do what is most comfortable to you . Don't start sliding whole octopus if your usual style is throwing a 5cm worm bait. Know your strengths and fish to them. First and foremost enjoy your time at the water without that we might as well go home. Choose an area that is safe and that compliments your style of fishing and then catch everything that takes a sniff of your well presented bait. Your winning fish will come when you least expect it.

As a lead up to our new season we have a great pre season briefing on the 11th of July with highlights of rules and regulations and the opportunity to meet some of our previous season champs to share a few hints for our season ahead. Circle hooks are quick-er and easier to remove giving you a better chance of getting a successful release on your fish. Keep a wet cloth handy near your bucket. If you place it over the fish’s eyes it's less likely to flop around while you are taking pho-tos, kneel close to your bucket while holding a fish for a photo.

Take more than one photo just to be safe. Zip Lock bags work great to keep your cards dry and add a ball sinker inside it to keep it from blowing away.

Pack light and keep mobile the more casts you can make and the more areas you can get to the better.

Fish in pairs, choose a fishing part-ner to be with you for the comp the more the merrier. Help each other with every fish and more often than not you will out fish most guys trying to go it alone. Lastly but not least RASSPL has become a way of life inside and outside competition, so respect the limited ocean resources that we have. All our kids one day want to enjoy fishing the way we do now. If we all do our part we can en-joy our beautiful sport for many years to come’.

For more pictures of our catches in Gouritz, log on to Facebook - West-ern Province Bronzies

For more info on a competition local to you, check out RASSPL Website

Be safe and tight lines

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HOW, ROD & REEL) TO MARISKA—INFO@TACKLEANDBOAT.CO.ZA

Cape Point currently has masses of yellowtail all around the bellows to anvil area, but they don't want to feed!! Typical yellowtail!! Further afield, the boats fishing the Gansbaai area have made very good catches of mackeral and geelbek. In the deep, some very good catches of longfin and the occational yellowfin has been caught. Very few anglers have been venturing to the deep, as the season is almost over. I would suggest that if you still want to make a trip or two to the deep, to do it ra-ther soon, before the season is com-pletely over!! All in all, the snoek seem to have dis-appeared, the yellowtail have been around on the West Coast and the good longfin in the deep. The fishing hasn't been all that great for the last few weeks, but one can manage to eke out a few fish if needs be!! Tight Lines!!

The snoek fishing has been rather dismal up in Lamberts Bay for the last few weeks. We had one or two good days, followed by some very poor fish-ing. The winter weather has also set in properly, with VERY cold tempera-tures. When we launch in the morning, the car's temperature gauge shows anything bewteen 2 - 6 degrees Celsi-us!! The last week offered some yellowtail and snoek fishing at Stompneusbaai (St. Helena). Once again, one or two days of good yellowtail being caught, on bait, on the North Blinder, with some boats up to 500kg's of fish. Also the odd few snoek in-between. Water temperature was 12.4 to 12.6 de-grees. That unfortunately, also dried up on Tuesday and we towed home, for a few days rest!! Dassen has produced some good yel-lowtail catches, with the recreational anglers getting quota quite often. The odd snoek has also shown itself here, but not in any great numbers. Robben Island has also had some very good days of yellowtail fishing, also offering the odd snoek in-between. On the Hout Bay side, the commer-cials have been landing a few snoek, occasionally. No fireworks though.

‘Rudolph het met ‘n copper medium Effzet blade gevang met 30 lbs braid en 15 lbs carbon coated steel leader.

Tackle was ‘n 8 ft Aerocast XH en met ‘n Stella 5000sw. (My yellowtail outfit)’

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Most of you associate Seaport Supply with Fishing tackle and equipment, but Seaport Supply started off servicing the yachting and boat building industry and still does, so our range of prod-ucts go far beyond Fishing tackle. So what does this have to do with anything?

Offshore cruising yachts has no access to 220v and fresh water while making an offshore crossing and has to be self-sufficient. With the ongoing energy crises, we have now too had to adapt and be self-sufficient for that 2 hours or more during our beloved load shedding. Seaport Supply does stock some items which would make that “black out” just a bit more comfortable.

Lights Lighting is the most uncomfort-able of them all. We have all sorts of solutions that would suit all types of budget. If it is lighting only that you need you will find a great ‘QUICK FIX” at our 12V LED light section to get you through that load shed. We have a range of exterior spot lights drawing only 1 amp and a huge selection of interior 12v lights the biggest one drawing just under 0.3 amps. These can be ran of any type of 12v battery of which off course you can buy at Seaport Supply

Batteries & chargers

We also stock a huge range of batteries ranging from 7 amps upward. We do most types of batteries including liquid crystal, high cycle, deep cycle, just to name a few.

Another handy gadget we have is our small mobile power banks which can be used for charging Mobile phones, tablets, head-lamps etc. We even sell wireless Bluetooth players that can keep you amused during load shedding.

Inverters Then for the connois-seur we have a range inverters and inverter chargers which you can use to run bigger appli-ances and lights at 220v, in fact you could run your entire home. . We stock both the cheaper modified sign wave inverters and the more refined pure sign wave inverters .

Seaport’s Graeme has just installed a Victron inverter charger at home and current-ly running his plasma tv, dstv explorer, Wi-Fi router and lights.. During load shedding.

Charging Solutions

We have a range of smart battery chargers, wind chargers and regulated solar panels to keep your bat-teries properly topped up.

Gas bottles Seaport has brought in the epoxy gas bottles which is super lightweight and does not corrode. A perfect traveling bottle and easy to stow and move around. The bottle takes both regulated gas appliances as well as all Cadac Appliances. Should you wish more information on any of the above mentioned products, please don’t

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SKI-BOAT MOBILE BOOKING IN/OUT FACILITY

The law states that when going to sea a Marine VHF Radio is not an option, but a require-

ment......’been able to monitor channel 16’.....other types of radio are an option re: Kavicom, 29

meg.

Since the passing of Geoff Hawkins, a huge gap has been left with the booking in/out of boats

whom venture off cape Point, and off Hout Bay.

Ski Boat Mobile now offers to fill that gap as, at this stage, as a voluntary service to the boating

community.

The ascent been on, ‘voluntary’.

Dave Melly has kindly volunteered to stand in for me, Andrew Perrins, to do these duties on

Channel 71, during the year, and can be found from early morning, till the last boat books back.

Dave logs all calls, and is a skipper, and ex boat owner himself, with years of experience 'under

the belt'.

The area covered by SBM, is extensive, from Dassen Island to Kleinbaai, and up to 40 miles

seawards.

This is a initiative presented by Cape Boat and Ski-boat club, the club that started safety at sea,

here in the Western Cape, and has the blessing of WPDSAA.

The call sign is SKI-BOAT MOBILE. (ztq430)

We will be adding the Kavicom sysyem to SBM shortly, and will advise the Kavicom number, at

a later date.

Andrew Perrins: 0727322031 ( January to May), also on Skype, Twitter & Facebook. Email;

andrew.perrins@hotmail.co.uk, also on Boating forum www.boatfishing.co.za. Whatsapp on

+447833317632.

Dave Melly: 0824510382, also on skype, face book .

NOW CHANNEL 71 IS LIVE STREAMING ON

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/20417

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Exciting events coming up in July / August with the Yzerfontein Boat & Angling Club’s Yellowtail Challenge during the long weekend, 8-10 Au-gust with Seaport partnering up with this yearly traditional event. Not to be missed. Seaport will gear you for the event, so please keep an eye on our social media and Facebook page for special offers during the build up of the event. Please contact the YBAC now already for accommodation op-tions. If you are not on our Facebook page, please LIKE US, Seaport Sup-ply Cape TOWN and stay in touch with fishing reports, specials, news and event updates. All Boating and Fishing related. The Lipton Cup offers excitement during the week of 10-17 July 2015, so be sure to support this yearly event as well. Racing in Table Bay. Ahoy Sailors!

All good things must come to an end. Seaport wants to thank all contribu-tors to the July 2015 issue. Be sure to send in your stories so we can share them with the world. That is where NewsPort get send out to monthly!

Stywe Lyne, TIGHT LINES en span die seile!

Groete ‘until next time’.

Mariska

Like us on Facebook (Seaport Supply Cape Town and Twitter @SeaportSupply and stay in touch with the latest trends, news and reports worldwide. Do not forget to send anything newsworthy, if your biggest catch, boat cruise, recipes or photos—will get published! Send to: Mariska—info@tackleandboat.co.za