So the Cape of Storms seems to be living up to its name..... or maybe just sloppy maintenance on the trawlers and other vessels visiting our shores, posing a potential threat of huge environmental disaster? Only a few weeks after the Japanese Fishing trawler, Eihatsu Maru beached itself, having to be towed off Clifton 1st Beach, 2 Fishing trawlers, Sandile and Toralla ran into a few problems in stormy seas just off the Green Point lighthouse opposite the Mouille Point Promenade today. We don't have all the details, but both vessels had to drop their anchors within a few hundred meters of each other (and the rocky coastline near popular surfer's corner, Off the Wall) and seemed to be waiting most of the day for a tow back into shore. A NSRI boat from the Waterfront Station was on hand and seen to be sailing between the two trawlers, eventually assisting to set up the tow line to the Toralla, which was followed later by the Sandile which was towed by a tug boat. It's still unclear what the problems with both trawlers were. The Sandile has a chequered past after being seized in 2005 following allegations that it had illegally caught over 300 tons of snoek while it only had a licence for hake and horse mackerel. see link here http://ports.co.za/news/article_2005_07_19_1656.html