Apr 04 2024
We all awoke to the birds shining and the sun tweeting. We could tell that it was going to be a tiring day. But nothing could prepare us for the horrors of the day! We started out by laying out the beams of the building as the mastermind of the plan sat behind his desk …
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May 17 2022
Kon-tiki for Meerkats! Fifty Meerkats from all over the Western Cape descended on the Imperial Yacht Club (next to the main Kon-tiki venue) at Zandvlei and transformed it into a Pirate Kingdom. Assisted by their eager families, they made pirate hats, built rafts that sailed from recycling material, learnt how to play “Walk the Deck” …
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May 17 2022
Being PL of a competition that we haven’t done for a few years was rough (last time we attended Kon-Tiki was in 2017). There was a lot of uncertain planning and a bit of confusion to go with it. Pre-build was great and definitely a good idea, although it didn’t help that we decided not …
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Dec 12 2019
As we enter the last few days of 2019, we look ahead to 2020 and what the scouting year brings. Recently, the scouters, the patrol leaders and the assistant patrol leaders got together for a few hours to put together a plan for 2020. The plan itself is still being finalised but some points are …
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Mar 09 2013
We have purchased a set of navigation lights which should be fine for Kon-Tiki. They run off a normal battery and last about 9 hours on one battery. The only drawback is that they will have to be turned on at night and then mounted but I think we can do that with three pulleys. …
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What is Kon-Tiki? Kon-tiki is a competition based on the exploits of Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian anthropologist who sailed a raft of balsa from South America to the Polynesian Islands to prove that it was possible that the Polynesians were descended from ancient inhabitants of South America. Kon Tiki was an old name for the …
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