SITE FOR CLUB-HOUSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 390, 26 June 1928, Page 14

SITE FOR CLUB-HOUSE

CAPETOWN YACHTSMEN’S PROBLEM Auckland vachtsmen are not alone in their difficulty of finding sites for club houses and hauling-out their boats. Recent improvements to the waterfront in Table Bay have raised the same problem for the Royal Capetown Yacht Club. . , In August, 1927, the R.C.C. received a communication from the Railways and Harbours Administration informing the club that, owing to extensive foreshore reclamation work, the present club house at Rogge Bay would shortly become untenable, as all access to the sea would be cut off. The authorities advised the R.C.Y.C. to seek accommodation elsewhere. Various sites have been suggested, none of them, however, being practicable. The present situation is viewed by the R.C.Y.C. with the gravest concern. Unless the club is successful in obtaining a suitable shore-site it is feared that it must suffer the same fate as befell the rowing clubs only a few years ago, when the demolition of their launching wharf at Rogge Bay made it impossible for them to launch their boats. As a result of this action the rowing clubs no longer exist, and their boats, through lack of use, have deteriorated beyond all hope of repair. The club has carefully considered the possibility of building a club house upon a pile structure. But, after obtaining estimates from different sources and exploring every avenue, the cost entailed by such a structure has been found to be wholly beyond the club’s resources. It has become fully evident that the only practicable solution is a shore site.