Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat Club
Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat Club (MBYBC), also known as Mosselbaai Seiljag- en Bootklub in Afrikaans, was a yacht club in Mossel Bay on the Garden Route in the Western Cape, South Africa. It was founded in 1956 by Melville Stephens as the Mossel Bay Yacht Club, a place for recreational sailors with a launching ramp.
In 1976 the club changed its name to Mossel Bay Yacht and Boat Club to reflect growing interest in deep-sea angling. The MBYBC offered activities such as yachting, boating, diving, rowing and social events. For the club’s 50th anniversary, member Dr. Loftus Heunis wrote Highlights from a Journey Through Time to record its history. In August 2011, MBYBC hosted the L26 class inter-club Lipton Sailing Cup.
Over the years the club’s facilities expanded. By 2019 the building housed an office, a manager’s flat, toilets and showers, a sail storage room, a galley, a bar, a pool table room and a committee room. On 31 January 2019, the MBYBC was evicted from the premises owned by Transnet National Port Authorities.
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