 (1) Bob and Norma arrive in Cape Town 12 November
to finalise the Cape Cutter19 deal with Nick and Lyndsey Voorhoeve
to see the boat tooling is safely packed and shipped to the UK
where Honnor Marine will commence building them in March 2004. |
 2) Quadrant Yachts had been building the CC19 for nearly 3 years. Although sad to see the departure of this very sought after day sailing boat the staff have lots of boat orders in from local firms to keep them busy. |
 (3) Amicable arrangements and final discussions
were made with Nick and Dudley Dix at the hotel. Dudley leaves
South Africa in the New Year to live in the United States and
Nick and Lyndsey are going back to their job of chartering in
the Caribbean. |
 4) Cape Cutter Tooling being placed safely into
one of the 40ft containers. |
 (5) Loading the Triton container at Quadrant Yachts
boat yard will arrive in the UK before Xmas. |
 6) It was a pleasure to meet up with Dirk Uys who
is coming to the UK in January to work on the Cape Cutter19.Dirk is very enthusiastic about the CapeCutter19 and has been involved from day one in her construction. Dirk insisted on our day off Sunday that he should take us to the Water Front in Cape Town. |
 (7) Bob and I were amazed at the size of Quay Four
where families come for entertainment-shopping-eating and of
course to see the boats. |
 (8) We all couldn't help but head towards a magnificent
50ft boat with classic tan sails which looked outing. |
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by a "Dudley Dix"! We couldn't believe it, even Dirk never knew that Dudley had anything to do with this famous boat. We sailed to Robin Island where Nelson
Mandela had been held prisoner. |
 10) Our business trip of nine days went too fast
but before we left Nick and Lyndsey kindly drove us around the
beautiful coastline of Cape Town to show us the famous cove where
people surf. |
 (11) Back to the airport for our 6.000 miles home
and back to work.(Back to reality) |
 (12)
Bob saying farewell to South Africa. |
 (13) It wasn't long that the remaining Cape Cutter19
boat orders followed us home; these were for customers of Nick
and Lyndsey. |
 (14) Safely out of the container and ready for
her customer Mr and Mrs Cooper to collect. |
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The strengthening of the South African Rand has been a major factor in this decision. Honnor Marine Ltd builders of the "Original
Devon Lugger" will be taking over the production of the
Cape Cutter 19.
To date 60 Cape Cutter 19's have
been sold since Nick and Lyndsay first introduced them at the
2001 They will continue to be built
to the same specification by Honnor Marine and to represent excellent
value for Visit the Cape Cutter 19 website For more information, please
contact: Bob and Norma Brown or come and meet us all at "PRESS RELEASE FROM WATERCRAFT MAGAZINE" Takeovers seem
to be in the air. As we go to press we learn that Honnor Marine
builders of the This beamy 19ft (5.8m) GRP pocket gaffer from the board of leading South African yacht designer Dudley Dix was written up by ocean sailer Annie Hill in our issue when she made her debut at The Southampton Boat Show in 2001. Annie will be there this year with Nick and Lyndsay Voorhoeve of Cape Yachts under the banner of Honnor Marine. Nick and Lyndsay say they will in the picture while current orders are fulfilled and then plan to return to ocean sailing. Norma Brown of
Honnor Marine tells us that production of the Cape Cutter 19
will be transferred to Honnor Honnor Marine: +44(0)1706 369084 -
Stand C11 Southampton Boat Show. |
9)
As we stood at the quayside looking at her a voice said "come
on were ready to leave now, jump aboard". Without any hesitation
the three of us climbed into the boat and we set sail. As we
left the docks and headed out to the open sea the crew told us
that this beautiful 50ft boat had been designed
"The
Cape Cutter 19 is a great addition to our range of classic day
sailers and we are excited to be gearing up for