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Seal Point, Cape St Francis, Gears Up For the Final Event of the 2025 Rip Curl GromSearch Junior Surfing Series
Cape St Francis – The final event in the 2025 Rip Curl GromSearch series is set to take place at Seal Point over the weekend, Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th October. The event will determine the winners of the Premier U16 divisions, with the U16 Champs in Boys and Girls winning an entry to the Rip Curl GromSearch Global Finals, to be held in Europe later in the year.
The rankings are close in both the Boys and Girls divisions, and the final event will be the decider to determine who goes on this illustrious trip. The points are totalled from the top 3 out of 4 Rip Curl GromSearch events over the year. For a closer look at the unadjusted rankings – https://liveheats.com/surfingsouthafrica
Entries Open
Entries to this tournament are open and can be found HERE.
Seal Point in Cape St Francis is one of the premier high-performance right-hand pointbreaks in the Eastern Cape and is the perfect canvas for the top junior surfers to strut their stuff in a bid for points and prizemoney. With support from the Kouga Local Municipality, expectations are high for excellent surf conditions for this event.
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The GromSearch Series is not just about the U16 division, though. It comprises U12, U14, U16 and U18 Girls and Boys divisions, with all divisions battling it out for contest results, prizes and rankings points. The GromSearch contests are all premier SAST events, with 1,000 points for the winners, and prize money as per all premier events.
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The event can be followed on LiveHeats.
This event is a Rip Curl South Africa competition.
The contest is supported by the Kouga Local Municipality.
The tournament is hosted by The Cape St Francis Resort.
Channel Islands Surfboards South Africa is a supporting sponsor.
St Francis Today is the media partner in St Francis Bay.
SURFING In South Africa Magazine is the national media partner.
The Rip Curl GromSearch Seal Point is a Surfing South Africa event.
The Rip Curl GromSearch is supported by the Seal Point Boardriders Club
It is presented by Sea Harvest
The Royal St Andrews Hotel Port Alfred is a co-sponsor of the Rip Curl International GromSearch Finals prizes and awards.
Dune in Foreground and Background – Photo Of The Day
Dust Today Beaches Tomorrow – Notes From The Editor
It’s noisy, pretty dusty, and at times it’s not comfortable.
The Long-Term Coastal Protection Scheme was never going to tiptoe into town with silk slippers. It arrived with trucks, rock, dredge pipes, and the usual din that follows trucks and machinery.
Restoring Balance
And we should be glad that it has finally arrived. Because for the first time in decades, we are not watching the ocean creep closer to our bay. Instead, we are restoring balance to the coastline. This is what it looks like: inconvenient, imperfect, and absolutely essential.
Already, the village is adapting to this new chapter in its own way. Each morning, a small congregation of our top surfers gathers at Anne Avenue, St Francis Bakery coffees in hand, studying the daily progress of the Laura Road groyne.
With the practised patience of people who measure time in tides and swells, they speculate, with smiles facing the rising sun, on the new wave patterns that may soon emerge there.
It is a peculiarly St Francis blend of coastal engineering and car park anthropology, where construction reports meet surf forecasts, and the future of the shoreline is discussed with the same seriousness as the next set on the horizon.
(L-R) Wayne Furphy, Dr Dion George (Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment) and Mayor Hatting Bornman onsite at the Laura Road Groyne.
Thanks To Those
Thanks to those who have stood behind this project by paying the levy, donating, lending, writing letters, attending meetings and keeping the pressure on until the work began.
Furthermore, many have tolerated delays and detours, trusted the process, and kept faith when it looked like red tape and the predictable hum of a few people confusing obstruction with intelligence might strangle it.
All this alongside Kouga Municipality, whose partnership has been vital in turning paper plans into rock and sand on the shoreline. That collective effort is the reason the trucks are rolling today.
Securing A Coastline
Rebuilding a beach is not the same as mowing a lawn. Every lump of sand, every placed rock, is an investment in this village’s survival. The work will pass; the benefits will endure. It is something to celebrate.
Dust and noise are inevitable. What matters is that groynes are being constructed to keep this place standing long after the grumbling has faded.
Read more: Extension of spit revetment / breakwater almost complete – Gallery
Kouga Local Municipality is pleased to announce that Amor Hendricks was sworn in as a DA PR Councillor in Kouga Municipality
Kouga Local Municipality is pleased to announce that Amor Hendricks was sworn in as a DA PR Councillor in Kouga Municipality. Amor is a resident of Humansdorp. She previously served as a PR Councillor in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality.
Councillor Hendricks succeeds Alderman Brenton Williams, who will now continue his service as a PR Councillor in the Sarah Baartman District Municipality.
We extend a warm welcome to Councillor Hendricks as she joins the Kouga team, and we wish Alderman Williams every success in his new role.
Reflecting on Alderman Williams’ contribution, Executive Mayor Hattingh Bornman said: “Alderman Williams has been a vital part of the Kouga Council since 2011. He will undoubtedly add huge value to the Sarah Baartman District Council.”
Amor Hendricks was sworn in at a time when all eyes are on the Kouga Municipality, with so much positivity happening in our area.
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