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The boat is still owned and actively used by the Hare family, and should give them many
more years of enjoyment.

Amongst the other boats to have been moored in Kalk Bay are Snowgoose. (Fig. 3.45). She

was built in the Somerset West area, for Mr. R. A. Cooper of St. James, and launched at

Gordon’s Bay in 1948. She came directly to Kalk Bay and remained there until being sold
in 1969, after Mr. Cooper’s death. She was 26 ft. long with a 6 – 8ft. beam and this gave

her attractive lines, but she tended to roll a bit in a strong sea. She was skippered by
Janodien “Bebbies” Cosyn and Dawood “Dotjie” Saliem and used mainly for recreational

fishing. Her present whereabouts are unknown.

Tarpon was a motor launch which was moored along the North mole in the 1950s.

Bannisters (Fig. 3.46) was a very fast 16ft. hard-chine marine plywood runabout, with
frames made of teak that had been rescued from an old hotel; she was powered by a Ford

Anglia engine and used by husband and wife big game fishermen, Wally and Pam Tyler,

during the late 1950s. Fetlar, which was lost in the storm of 1993, had gained fame as one
of the Dunkirk evacuation “little ships”. Sarabea was a motor launch built around 1960 in

Durban for Sir Ellis Brown of tea and coffee fame, according to her previous owner, Martin
Pugh;

Conclusion

The foregoing is a summing-up of some limited research that I have done, and personal
knowledge of Kalk Bay.