HOBBY & MARINE

We are not just another hobby shop. This is a business born from passion, from a passion to have fun, from a passion to be creative, from a passion to be able to teach as well.

I have been involved at the FUN and creative end of model sailing boats, small swimming pool power runabouts and wooden sailing dinghies since my teens. Fast forward some decades and one day in 2002 my mother presents me with a balsa/glassfibre model boat she found on the attic during a big clean up it had been there since I went to university (it was my own interpretation of a full sized yacht called Stormvogel, a van der Stadt design famous in the 60's for various racing achievements) . With my son egging me on I tried to turn it into a sailing boat, but it just needed too much done to it. So I decided to start a new sailing boat from scratch. An internet search gave me the plan at an affordable price and some 2 months later St Francis was launched. Well you can guess who had more fun. Dad of course (to be fair our son was but 5 years old at the time). Thus the momentum was started, the passion re-born and Fun on Water our first motto. Wilfried Braunlich

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SEGWAY

Segway South Africa (Pty) Ltd is a South African company founded in 2004 by John Hutchinson and Jonathan Cohen to capitalise on the Segway phenomenon.

They have created several rental products, and offer factory trained sales and support services. The rental and tour business models of Segway South Africa are based on successful rental/tour operations in the USA.

Segway South Africa (Pty) Ltd is the sole distributor of the Segway HT and it's associated accessories. They are well equipped to handle any of your Segway requirements.

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THE MODEL SHIPYARD

The Model Shipyard are designers and builders of the, much acclaimed, STEPHENS & KENAU range of museum quality Historic Sailing Ship Models.

We are situated on the South Coast of the Cape of Good Hope in Mossel Bay, South Africa. Our studio is part of the Mossel Bay Maritime Museum complex where a full size replica of the Bartholomew Diaz Caravel is permanently on display. Bartholomew Diaz was the discoverer of the Southern Passage to the East around The Cape of Good Hope, which he initially named the Cape of Storms.

Our studio is designed in such a way that one can walk through and watch our craftsmen at work. A visit to our studio is a must when touring the Garden Route. We also have Galleries at the Clock Tower in the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, and Knysna Quays Waterfront in Knysna South Africa.

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