YACHTING CUP
U.S. not to com pete
(N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) SYDNEY. The United States team is; the only unlikely starter for the four-race Southern Cross! Cup yachting series this! week. Two of the three American; yachts have withdrawn, but negotiations by the Americans to charter another yacht from Melbourne are still I under way. The cup, a teams event, is decided over four races, including the 630-mile Sydney-Ito-Hobart classic. A record eight teams, comprising three yachts each, 'will compete in this year’s event. Britain, runner-up to ;New South Wales in 1969 and to New Zealand in 1971. will be led by a one-legged Yorkshireman. A. Slater, who will be making his third attempt to take home the cup Slater will skipper Prospect iof Whitby. Britain will have ithe biggest yacht, the 55-foot IQuailo HI, to be captained by D, Parr. New Zealand has entered a team of big yachts in contrast to the smaller One Ton class which was successful in 1971. New South Wales will be strongly represented by S. Fischer’s veteran 48-fooi Ragamuffin, G. Evans’s consistent one-tonner, Pilgrim, and the exciting new Sparkman and Stephens-designed 47-footer, Love and War.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33407, 13 December 1973, Page 9
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192YACHTING CUP Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33407, 13 December 1973, Page 9
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