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Father Christmas put in an early appearance at Simons Town yacht club on Saturday. It appears that while on exercise in False Bay, Simons Town's deep sea rescue boat ' Spirit of Safmarine III' came across the man dressed in a red suit carrying presents and dropped him off, to the delight of the children, at the yacht club.Chops Craig took the pictures.
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