Die bekende plaaslike skipper en visserman Florus Gerhardus Visser, beter bekend as Ridus, is Sondag 3 April in \u2019n botsing in Velddrif dood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visser, wat in Velddrif gewoon het, is op 8 Julie 1972 in Vredenburg gebore. Hy sou dus later vanjaar sy 50ste verjaarsdag vier. Volgens sy familie was hy \u2019n liefdevolle omgee-mens en het hy altyd ander eerste gestel. Een van sy dogters, Bea Visser, s\u00ea hy het altyd gespot en ges\u00ea sy hart is soos \u2019n taxi \u2013 altyd plek vir nog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medelye het op Facebook ingestroom soos mense vertel hoe hulle Visser gaan mis en wat hy vir hulle beteken het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHy het altyd ges\u00ea vriendelikheid kos niks. Sy grappe was eindeloos en hy het ook altyd ges\u00ea hoe meer mense om hom, hoe beter. Hy was lief om kos te maak en mense te onthaal. Sy huis was almal se huis en sy gesin was sy alles; sy hele lewe. Hy sou enigiets vir ons doen,\u201d vertel Bea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy voeg by: \u201cMy pa was nooit skaam om \u2019n helpende hand uit te reik nie. Hy sou altyd gehelp het \u2013 selfs sonder om enigiemand anders daarvan te s\u00ea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visser het van kleins af \u2019n groot liefde vir die see gehad en was \u2019n skipper na wie baie mense opgekyk het en wat baie gerespekteer het. \u201cHy was eintlik maar \u2019n goeie vriend vir almal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bea s\u00ea haar pa het hulle vertel hoe hy en vriende skool \u201cgebank\u201d het om te gaan visvang. \u201cDis ook waar hy sy bynaam \u2018Boeke\u2019 gekry het \u2013 omdat hy nooit aandag aan \u2019n boek gegee het nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visser het in 1992 uit die weermag gestap en as bemanningslid op die boot Doreen <\/i>begin werk. Later het hy by Martin Tallie, \u2019n goeie vriend van hom, as bemanningslid gewerk en toe vir stuurman gaan leer. Hy het in 2008 as skipper op Mizpah<\/i> begin vaar, en is ses maande later na \u2019n groot staalboot bevorder, waar hy ook as skipper gewerk het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die laaste boot waarop hy gewerk het, was die<\/span> Adenia, <\/i>waar hy een van die top-skippers was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Henry March, sy werkgewer by Premier Fishing, s\u00ea in die 12 jaar wat Visser by die maatskappy gewerk het, het hy homself as \u2019n bekwame skipper bewys. \u201cHy het \u2019n passie gehad as dit by visvang kom en ons gaan hom as kollega, skipper en vriend mis.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sy dogter beaam dit. \u201cOns gaan hom verskriklik mis \u2013 die leemte wat hy laat, sal nooit gevul word nie. Ons is oneindig baie lief vir hom,\u201d s\u00ea Bea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens kapt. Tania Helfrich, \u2019n plaaslike polisiewoordvoerder, ondersoek die polisie nog die omstandighede van die botsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die begrafnis word vir Saterdag (9 April) om 10:00 in die NG kerk in Laaiplek beplan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Verversings en vieringe sal om 11:00 by die Laaiplek-hotel plaasvind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Die bekende plaaslike skipper en visserman Florus Gerhardus Visser, beter bekend as Ridus, is Sondag 3 April in \u2019n botsing in Velddrif 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