Royal Natal Yacht Club
Lipton Challenge Cup
Simonstown: 24 – 29 August
The majestic historic cup stays in Cape Town.
Greg Davis and his team sailing on Co-Ordination from the
Royal Cape Yacht Club have claimed the title of the Lipton Challenge Cup.
It was a rather non-eventful conclusion to the 2014
Lipton Challenge Cup that had 15 of South Africa’s top sailing teams participating
in the one-design race. The final day in Simonstown was near breathless and the
Race Officer pushed the start time to the latest possible opportunity waiting
for the wind to fill as he tried to squeeze in a final race before the cut off
time of 2pm but after two general recalls, the clock struck two and racing was
abandoned in the tranquil conditions.
This year the weather gods gave the fleet six days of
liquorice all-sorts. The sailors unfortunately managed only fifty percent of
the races getting in three races of the six scheduled. Two days racing was
called off due to the wind being too light and on Thursday racing was abandoned
due to conditions being too hazardous with big seas and high winds hammering
the Cape.
Davis managed two wins and a second over the three races.
This is his tenth Lipton Challenge Cup victory flying the Royal Cape Yacht
Club’s burgee.
Durban’s top finisher was the young team from the Royal
Natal Yacht Club sailing on Orion B2G2. The skipper for the team Brennan
Robinson said, “I am so impressed with everyone in our team. Trent on the stick
handled so well, keeping us fast and low. The guys, Thokazani, Nqoba, Refeloa
and the youngest on the team Michaela sailed out of their boats in the testing
conditions, they never gave up the entire time.”
Commodore for the Royal
Natal Yacht Club, Graham Rose stated proudly, “I think they did wonderfully
well. We are all enormously proud of our team. They showed terrific
sportsmanship on the water and they were a glowing example of decorum to the
rest of the fleet.”
“Our team have shown that sailing is very much alive in
Durban. The future of sailing is certainly going to be exciting with this
talent coming through our ranks.”
The Royal Natal Yacht Club team are
Brennan Robinson (Captain): Trimmer
Trent Bingham: Helmsman
Thokozani Latha: Trimmer
Nqoba Mswazi: Bowman
Michaela Robinson: Tactics
Refeloa Zililo: Halyards
Final results
1 Co-Ordination (Royal Cape Yacht Club Greg Davis)
4points, 2 B&G (Zeekoe Vlei Yacht Club Daniel Agulhas) 7points, 3 Orion
B2G2 (Royal Natal Yacht Club Brennan Robinson) 10points, 4 Intasure (False Bay
Yacht Club Markus Progli) 13points, 5 LTC / Cab Technology SA (Hout Bay Yacht
Club Theo Yon) 16points, 6 Southern Charter UCT Maverick (UCT YC, Chris Gough)
17points, 7 Point Yacht Club (PYC, Craig Millar) 18 points
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