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the expensive yachts.

Few, if any of the local boats are insured. It is a very expensive business and so any luxury

craft in the harbour will need to be protected from the tough working fishing boats. There will

be fences.

That is not to say there is no room for such a development. There is. With the right kind of
vision and money the harbour could be expanded and provide much needed facilities for the

yachts and luxury craft. I believe it is inevitable and will happen sooner or later. It could be a

boost for False Bay, but it will be expensive and will need to be done before any development
on the Point makes it impossible. And again, it must have the input from those who are

already involved in the harbour. This is discussed in the book.

To build any form of housing on the Point area would be an insult to those fishing families

who, in the past, and even now, cannot live near their place of work because there is no

accommodation.

I believe it is time that Kalk Bay harbour, the boats, the fishermen, and the fishing industry be

viewed from a larger perspective. It is time to think of the whole of False Bay. If a fishing
industry is to continue to survive then surely the entire Bay needs protecting? We should be

asking questions such as: How many commercial boats can the resources handle? Why can’t

boats be restricted to the areas in which they are registered? If the fish are in Lambert’s Bay
and the fishermen have to go there, fine. Let them work on the Lambert’s Bay boats. If the

fish are in False Bay, then work on a local boat. Why allow hundreds of extra boats to

descend on an area the minute there are some fish? On Thursday night, when the weather
gave us a break after nearly two weeks of wind and rough seas, at least ten of the local boats

went out at night to look for the kabeljou. When they got down to Kaptein’s Klip area there
must have been 50 ski-boats on the water. The snoek had disappeared up the coast and were

down here, and so the ski-boats had descended on False Bay. The resources and the local

fishermen are the ones that lose each time.