Yachtsmen named for Admiral’s Cup

Press, 1 June 1989, Page 41

Yachtsmen named for Admiral’s Cup

PA Auckland Twenty-nine yachtsmen have been handed silver ferns, along with a commission to bring back from Britain in August the Admiral’s Cup, symbol of world ocean racing supremacy. The full team to defend the cup, won two years ago by New Zealand after five earlier attempts, was announced hv the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron. The yachtsmen will use three keelboats donated by owners for the R.N.Z.Y.S. coordinated effort. The boats are the one ton class Propaganda, owned by Tim Bailey; Fair Share, owned by the Wellington syndicate of Del Hogg, David O’Neill, John Benton and David Ross, and the two ton

class Librah, owned by Michael Fay and David Richwhite.

The squadron has raised SI million for the defence, through regattas, donations, and major support announced tonight from the New Zealand Yachting Federation and New Zealand Breweries.

The brewery is also supporting, at about the same time as the Admiral’s Cup regatta, Peter Blake’s Steinlager 2 campaign to win the Whitbread round-the-world race.

The Admiral’s Cup team leaves New Zealand in two weeks to reassemble the yachts, and take part in two tune-up regattas off the south coast of England. The Admiral’s Cup regatta, which consists of inshore races in the Solent, cross

channel races and the 605nautical mile Fastnet race, begins on July 27. The team will be based at Cowes, on the Isle of Wight, for the fortnight-long regatta. The team is: Propaganda: Richard Dodson, John Newton, Dallas Bennett, Simon Daubney, Harry Dodson, Mark Hansen, Robert Naismith, Rod Nicholls. Fair Share: Tom Dodson, David Barnes, Graeme Handley, David Brooke, Warwick Fleury, Dennis Kendall, Grant Lorenz, Simon Ostik, Michael Spanhake. Librah: Peter Lester, Rod Davis, Tom Schanackenberg, Don Cowie, Nick Heron, Mathew Mason, Lance Manson, Owen Rutter, Robert Salthouse, Jeremy Scantlebury, John Vitali, Grant Beck.