Sailing Magazine
by Richard Crockett
It’s back to news from yesteryear today with a fine selection of interesting news to share.
One often hears about yachties who talk about their boats as things of beauty. Gordon Neill did just when he flew over to Germany to see how ‘Mercury’, being built for the 1971 Rio Race, was getting on.
READ IT HERE: 1970 08 17 – Rio 1971 – Don Pfotenhauer Collection – S&A – 560
Nine years later a team of South Africans were off to the One-Ton World Champs in the USA with two boats – ‘Spirit of Mainstay’ and ‘Archangel’.
READ IT HERE: 1979 08 17 – Billy Leisegang – S&A – 002301 – OCR
In 1988 Etienne van Cuyck was bidding for a hat-trick in the Lipton Cup with a tried and tested crew.
READ IT HERE: 1988 08 17 – S&A – 7
In the 1988 Mauritius to Durban Race two RCOD’s were entered. This article is headed “a feat of seamanship, or was it madness?”.
READ IT HERE: 1989 08 17 – S&A – 000017
In 1990 the Argus gave almost a full page of editorial to the Lipton Cup under the heading “Dice on the Ocean Wave”.
READ IT HERE: 1990 08 17 – S&A – 421 2
