Page 3 - CYAA2024 Winter Series entry notice

RYCV 2024 Lipton Cup Regatta
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16 and 17 November
There’s an opportunity for the classic’s to be part of the RYCV Lipton Cup Regatta as the
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2024/2025 Summer Series race 3 is scheduled for 17 November, a Lipton cup race day. It’s
proposed to include this race as the 2024 Lipton Cup Classic Yacht division race. The Regatta
Race one will use the 2024 Cup Regatta passage race course.

CYAA/RGYC Geelong Wooden Boat Festival Trophies

Digby Family Topsy D Passage Race Sea Wren 1932 Trophy RENENE Kent Bacon
Digby Family Topsy D Corio Bay Race Sea Wren 1933 Trophy MARIE LOUISE III Scott
Taylor
Digby Family Topsy D Best of Series Donaghy Cup LUCIENNE Michael Shanahan

1. 1838 and 1841Aquatic events on Port Phillip.
1. Yachts and Williamstown Harbour Regulations 1883.
3 An extraordinary voyage 1883.
2024 Winter Series poster comments.

The scene depicted in the poster is part of the Arthur Gregory painting of Paringa
commissioned by Paringa owner P
Damman St.KYC Captain 1918. It
shows Paringa leading the fleet home as
she crosses the finish line between the
St.KYC mark boat and St. Kilda Pier.
Note the Port Melb based background

Arthur Gregory was one of marina artist
Federick Gregory’s three son’s. In 1888
Captain Henry Press and Frederick
Gregory exhibited paintings at the
opening of the HBYC club house.

Walter Reeks Biography launch.

Co-authored by Nicole Mays and David Payne, the launch
of this document of record biography of the first
Australian Marine Architect will take place mid April at
the Australian National Maritime Museum.

The background information associated with this
biography adds to the importance of this work.

The yacht Wyruna being restored by Ferdi Darley for the
Sam Binder family was designed by Walter Reeks.

Read on to check out three articles extracted for the
recently digitised RMYS Scrap book of Newspaper
clipping from 1883 to 1885. And other Sayonara Cup
archives.
Regards to all, Peter Costolloe CYAA (Vic)Handicapper.