The South African America's Cup Yacht Shosholoza will once again be a familiar sight in Cape Town's Table Bay after being away in Europe for the past three months.

The boat has arrived back in her home town. Members of Team Shosholoza will be assisting with the moving of the yacht to the V&A Waterfront by floating crane where she will be lifted onto the quayside at the team's new permanent base (between the Cape Grace Hotel and the BOE headquarters and flanked by the fishing boat fleet.)

Until now the team worked out of a couple of containers in the Waterfront where meetings and all activities were held in the open air.

The new base has a mini sail loft, office space, a kitchen, showers and an upstairs entertainment area and deck overlooking the V&A. The quayside is spacious with ample space for yacht Shosholoza RSA 48 to be lifted out of the water daily.

The team will spend the first week of November match racing on local 26 foot yachts as skipper Geoff Meek and three crew members leave at the weekend for the Nippon Cup, an ISAF Grade 1 Match Racing event. which will be held in Tokyo.

The rest of team will re-rig Shosholoza RSA 48 and prepare her for sailing from the 16th and get her back up to racing mode by the 24th November when the others return from Japan.

Sailing manager Paul Standbridge says he will continue to try out 2 new crew members per week and is still looking to build the team by 6 sailors prior to Act 4 in Europe in June 2005.

He is specifically looking for 4 crew weighing 105kg's each to help give more muscle power to the sailing crew.