Nolwandle is a Cascade 36 sloop, is based in Hout Bay, South Africa. Nolwandle is registered as SA 2432 (call sign ZR6942). She is hull number 139 launched in 1983. Her owner is a keen sailer and has strong views on national liberation.
Nolwandle is a female name meaning “sea” in isiXhosa and refers to the size of my love for the sea. She is my “sea lady”.
Kwaito star Zola wrote about his son, Lwandle, on his album iButho:
Men may have been to the moon and orbited the earth, but they still can’t figure the mysteries of the ocean. A force unconquered and untamed that swallows all that shows it no respect. TITANIC? All cultures and religions relate to it somehow. Thats why I named you “Lwandle”. May your life be the same.”
Nolwandle is the female version of the male name Lwandle.
Nolwandle at anchor off the coaster berth, Lambert’s Bay harbour, with the Heerenlogementberg in the left background, January 2008.
The header photo for this blog shows the sun rising over Elandsbaai early on a January morning in 2008. It was taken from Nolwandle just after raising her anchor to continue a passage from Lambert’s Bay to Laaiplek.
More recently Nolwandle’s owner has become a radio amateur (ham) with the call-sign ZS1MO. He is in the process of making Nolwandle radio active!
9 Comments
27 March 2007 at 9:07
Hey, there, glad to see another Cascade 36 out there and thanks for the blog! Mayhaps I will end up in your hemisphere someday. Presently overhauling my 36 (hull #127) in Scappoose, Oregon just about 30 km downriver from where she was built. I am christening her (after she’s been decommissioned and had a proper time to forget her old name) “Ariolimax” which is the genus for the Pacific Banana Slug. My feminist sisters are certain it means “big nipple” and I won’t dissuade them, it’s so easy to bait feminists. I’m interested in the electrolysis problem…were you tied to a dock, sharing a shore power connection, or “swinging free” and just being buzzed by stray currents? Also, the marina owner might want to really try to isolate the problem. We had a 12 year old kid electrocuted just downriver from my marina, he was swimming in another marina and between a miswired shore power socket and a miswired boat there was enough current in the water to tetanize the kids’ muscles and he drowned. His mother almost drowned, trying to save him. Which is why I spent US$400 on an isolation transformer for my boat, plus it can step down from 240 volts input, too, for when I get “over there”. Someday. Enjoy the boat, my friend! Mark Sutton
27 March 2007 at 21:15
Hey Mark
Thanks for the comment and it is great to know the other Cascade owners out there. Nolwandle is hull #139, was built in 1983 and brought to South Africa on a ship in 1986 I am told. I think Ariolimax is a great sounding name (my name is Max, so it could also mean Max’s nipples??) but why name it after a slug?
The electrolysis is a serious problem in Hout Bay harbour. The Marina has tried to find the source, checked the marina shore AC power and a number of boats, but nothing has been found as yet. Nolwandle has a galvanic isolator (is this the same as your isolation transformer?), and there is no link between the AC and the DC systems on the boat. Other boats have suffered far worse problems. A 4 month old boat moored opposite me has already lost all her anodes. Steve, who is working on my boat, has found numerous tiny holes in the steel hull of his boat “Dixy Rollar”. Other boats also have problems. Some measurements have been made of the voltage between various boats and the water in the marina and it ranges between 3v and 7.7v!!
Last night we had the meeting of the marina owners and it was decided that more must be done to get to the bottom of the problems, which seems to only have emerged in the last year. As the harbour is mainly a fishing harbour, it could easily be a problem related to one of those boats, or one of the fishing factories. In the mean time I am installing two anodes just behind the rudder, to protect Nolwandle.
Your story about the kid who was electrocuted is very scary and I will be forwarding it to other boat owners to warn them of the danger.
Hope to see you soon in Hout Bay
Max
15 August 2007 at 1:35
I’m buying all assets of Cascade Yachts, and plan on restarting construction soon. I left a comment under your “For Sale” posting with a few more details. I should have the Cascade website and email up and running soon, but in the meantime feel free to contact me at russellmead10@hotmail.com
Russell
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20 September 2008 at 1:20
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20 September 2008 at 16:20
I have Skookumlady, a Cascade 36, hull # 30. Have been sailing out of Norfolk, Virginia for the last 25 years. Started posting some of my better pictures on http://skookumlady.wordpress.com/.
I also had a bad galvanic current problem. Installed a West Marine galvanic isolator. Have not replaced a zinc between haul outs, and I usually wait a few years between haul outs with divers, scrubbing and checking monthly, during the summer.
Enjoy sailing
Fred
23 September 2008 at 0:22
I just stumbled onto your website and am delighted. Kaye and I own a raised deck Cascade 36. I am not on my computer right now, but will send pictures when we get another wifi connection. We live on “Bettie” full time, having left Los Angeles four years ago, through the canal, Cartagena, etc. We are now in Long Island NY, having done six weeks in Maine. We’re headed to the eastern Caribbean for the winter.
Oh, we did a movie, check it out on thesailingchannel.com It’s called Cruising with Bettie. It’s pretty cool.
Later,
Bob
23 September 2008 at 16:51
Bob, When you get a chance contact me on your way south. It would be nice to compare notes.
Fred