Welcome to the Mill Series. It is an appreciation of such a lovely heritage of Mills and sharing them along with and their environments with each other as fellow Geocaching Enthusiasts. Please feel welcome to check out the series Website at www.geocachingmillseries.weebly.com
This is a micro (other) (Not a Nano) two part Multicache that we are sure you will enjoy. The puzzle should not take more than 10 min and then there is a 1 min stroll to the Cache. The area is a lovely classic area in Cape Town at the foot of the mountain.
PLEASE USE STEALTH WHEN RETRIEVING AND RETURING THE CACHE. Thank you for assisting in the preservation of this cache.
Mosterts Wind Mill History:
The Mostert's Mill History: Mostert's Mill is a farm windmill and was built 1796 to the new standards and survives today as a monument to those early artisans. It is one of the only working windmill in Southern Africa. It was later named after Sybrand Jacobus Mostert who bought the mill and surrounding property on the death of his father-in-law, Jacob Van Renen in 1823.
In the beginning windmills constructed at the Cape were often damaged by the strong winds. The Dutch Council decided in 1717 to send out masons, carpenters, bricks and materials on the ship Meijnden to built more efficient mills.
Mostert's Mill is a truncated tower-mill with a revolving cap thatched roof that allows the sails to be turned into the wind. This type of mill is called a Grond Zeile by the Dutch and refers to the fact that the sails are serviced from the ground. There is no equivalent English term for Grond Zeile. This Grond Zeile mill is usually found where there is no obstruction to the wind.
The mill was built as a private mill on the farm 'Welgelegen', owned by Gysbert van Renen. It was the first privately owned mill in Cape Town. Prior to the British occupation of the Cape in the Battle of Muizenberg in 1795, only mills controlled by the Dutch East India Company were allowed. Mostert's Mill had ceased working by 1873 but was owned by the Mostert family until 1889, when it was sold to a Mr Wilks, who sold it in 1891. The mill became derelict but a restoration was undertaked by the Dutch millwright Christiaan Bremer.
The restored mill was opened on 1 February 1936 by Dr Lorentz, the Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the Netherlands. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister, General Hertzog and flour was ground for the guests.
The mill was worked on occasion but it again became derelict during the Second World War. In 1986, the windshaft broke and the sails crashed to the ground. The Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa started a campaign to preserve the mill, leading to the formation of the Friends of Mostert's Mill in 1993. A further restoration in 1995 by Dunning-Bremer returned the mill to working order again
Technical Specifications: Mostert's Mill is a three storey tower mill. The tower is 7.94 metres (26 ft 1 in) in diameter externally at ground level and is 6.68 metres (21 ft 11 in) high. It is constructed of random stone for the first 2.28 metres (7 ft 6 in) and then unbaked bricks above. The walls are 1.15 metres (3 ft 9 in) thick at ground level, giving the mill an internal diameter of 5.64 metres (18 ft 6 in).
The mill has four common sails and is winded by a tailpole. Those fitted at the 1935 restoration were 6.00 metres (19 ft 8 in) long and 1.75 metres (5 ft 9 in) wide, fitted with a windboard on the leading edge. Such a feature was not to be found on other South African windmills. The sails, which have a span of 14.45 metres (47 ft 5 in), were carried on a teak windshaft. This was fitted with a cast iron poll end in 1935, because the terminus of the wooden shaft has rotted. Contemporary South African windmills all had wooden windshafts, apart from one of the Salt River windmills, which had an iron cross.
A replacement windshaft was fitted in 1995. The windshaft carries a clasp arm brake wheel, which has a diameter of 770 millimetres (2 ft 6 in) and has 47 cogs. It drove the single pair of millstones, via a lantern pinion stone nut, which has 16 staves. The millstones comprise the original runner stone and a non-original bedstone. The latter is a Cullen stone installed in 1935 and came from a windmill at Leens, Groningen, Netherlands.
Multicache Details:
At the listed coordinates are two traffic boards. Extract the details from there needed to determine the final coordinates. None of the information read above in the listing will help.
D= The big number at the top of both boards
Referring to the words on the board ON THE LEFT use the Alpha Numeric cipher A=1 B=2 C=3 … Z=26 to determine the following. There are 3 lines of words.
J= 2nd Line 4th Letter
K= 2nd Line 5th Letter
P= 3rd Line 4th Letter
Q= 3rd Line 6th Letter
There is no multiplication between the brackets
S 33° 57.QQK
E 018° 27.(K+J)(K+P)(6)
At Final coordinates no need to wonder deep into the garden. You can sit on the rocks and reach it from there. Please also return exactly as you found it and make sure it is still well hidden and concealed. PLEASE USE STEALTH as can be high muggle area at certain times.
We really trust you Enjoy the cache the amazing wind mill feature and the area.