A striking duel on the triumphant and River Derwent came back of the Sayonara Cup to the Yacht Squadron, Royal Sydney points in match-racing renewal among the young sailors of Australia after years of dormancy in Hobart at the RYCOT.

Also known as the mini-America’s Cup, the Sayonara Cup is one of the most famous and oldest yachting trophies in the southern hemisphere. For over 115 years, this trophy has cast a unique spell on match racers. This has provided a forum for racing in its original form since 1904 at the time when the race between two most powerful racing yachts of Australia seems to mark the event of Federation fine.

The recent knife-edged fight between Australia’s two oldest prominent sailing clubs and their best teams fascinated crowds on the gleaming waterway and attracted instant offers to confront from Western Australia and Tasmania.

Iain Murray, the director of the Australian Sailing performance said, “It looks like Sayonara Cup has open a sailing area that people perceived they had stirred on from.”

“We all have looked at the very recent versions of America’s Cup and thinking about foiling and speed, but there is an indisputable admiration of the novel match racing skill used in the previous Sayonara Cup and America’s Cups. The match racing technical skills – principally of gybing and tacking and placement of boats over technology are some skills that are frequently required at the top level and it has been the base of Australian crew saturation on the platform of world sailing.”

Currently, Murray is all optimistic about match racing future on a national stage.

“The standards of the club, national and state originated difficulties have a significant place and now the RSYS feels it is crucial re-establish the Sayonara Cup. This is a preferred pathway for champions of our future.”

A striking duel on the triumphant and River Derwent came back of the Sayonara Cup to the Yacht Squadron, Royal Sydney points in match-racing renewal among the young sailors of Australia after years of dormancy in Hobart at the RYCOT.

Also known as the mini-America’s Cup, the Sayonara Cup is one of the most famous and oldest yachting trophies in the southern hemisphere. For over 115 years, this trophy has cast a unique spell on match racers. This has provided a forum for racing in its original form since 1904 at the time when the race between two most powerful racing yachts of Australia seems to mark the event of Federation fine.

The recent knife-edged fight between Australia’s two oldest prominent sailing clubs and their best teams fascinated crowds on the gleaming waterway and attracted instant offers to confront from Western Australia and Tasmania.

Iain Murray, the director of the Australian Sailing performance said, “It looks like Sayonara Cup has open a sailing area that people perceived they had stirred on from.”

“We all have looked at the very recent versions of America’s Cup and thinking about foiling and speed but there is an indisputable admiration of the novel match racing skill used in the previous Sayonara Cup and America’s Cups. The match racing technical skills – principally of gybing and tacking and placement of boats over technology are some skills that are frequently required at the top level and it has been the base of Australian crew saturation on the platform of world sailing.”

Currently, Murray is all optimistic about match racing future on a national stage.

“The standards of the club, national and state originated difficulties have a significant place and now the RSYS feels it is crucial re-establish the Sayonara Cup. This is a preferred pathway for champions of our future.”