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Eden Island Lipton Cup21st to 28th August 2009 |
Team Sponsors
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Team Slaley Wines
In celebration of National Woman’s Day, the only all woman yachting team will be flying the Slaley colours in the Eden Island Lipton Cup from 21 to 28 August 2009.
2009 is the third year that the Women’s Team, run by Kirsten Veenstra and Judy Provoyeur, will compete against the men in Lipton, and hopefully give them a run for their money. Prior to that, there had not been a Women’s Team in Lipton for seven years.
The Slaley Women’s Lipton Team is managed by well-known boat builder and sailor Manuel Mendes and sails for the Cape Radio Yacht Club.
Slaley Wine Estate, Telephone 021 865 2123, www.slaley.co.za, info@slaley.co.za
Team INTASURE
“INTASURE” is sailing for Fish Hoek Beach Sailing Club at Lipton this year. Skippered and helmed by Andrea Giovannini who is well known in Cape sailing circles as both a highly competent racing yachtsman as well as his work in coaching South African Optimist youth teams.
“Team INTASURE” also includes:
Penny Allison, downwind trimmer / tactics, who represented South Africa on the Yngling team at the Beijing Olympics.
Marcus Progli, upwind trimmer, well known in dinghy sailing as a highly competent sailor with National Dinghy championships under his belt.
Ian MacRobert, halyards, Ian is also responsible for boat engineering and setup – his background being in the mast building and rigging industry.
Nic Baigrie, bowman, has diverse racing experience on both keelboats and dinghy sailing.
Tiran Long is a young addition to the team, making his debut at Lipton. Tiran was on the recent SA African champs team being trained by Andrea, securing a 9th position overall out of 38 entries.
About Intasure:
The team are delighted to have INTASURE as their sponsor. INTASURE are the Cape based Insurance brokerage of choice, which specializes in all aspects of your Yachting and Marine Insurance needs. Find out more about insuring your yacht at www.intasure.co.za
Team Macnificent Hitachi
Once again, the youngest crew to participate in this year’s Lipton Cup. Joshua Banks, Jacques Louw, Alessandro Napoli, Ryan Barnardo, Jason Gray, Daniel Spratley and Robert Wood are all from the Milnerton Aquatic Club in Cape Town, where they sail either Optimist or Dabchicks. Their combined average age is just under 13 years old. All have only been sailing since December 2007, after attending a beginners’ sailing course at the club.
This is the second year this team will be entering the event under the experienced guidance of Brent Gray, who is the on-board mentor and coach, and Axel Adelbert who is the team manager. This will be the last year the MAC Lipton Boys will have Brent on board – in 2010 they will be entirely on their own in their endeavour, as they challenge for the cup.
The boys have proved they are talented, tenacious and very competitive, and there is no doubt that much will still be heard from this young crew in the years to come.
Parasailor SA sponsors Warlock
Introducing the sponsor of Knysna Yacht Clubs Entry Parasailor
Offshore sailing can be a demanding pastime at the best of times.
Managing a suite of sails on a boat shorthanded and in gusty to strong weather and a big sea can put some of the most dedicated sailors off, and limit their desire to be exposed to the one passion that motivates their existence ... bluewater sailing.
Parasailor - the venting spinnaker with a soft batten
- ease of handling
- improved safety
- gust venting / flushing
- points of sail - close reach to dead run, easy gybing
- stabilises rolling and pitching, steadies leeches
- the Parasailor, with one sail, replaces the spinnaker, the gennaker and the assymetric
We will:‐
- evaluate your specific requirements and customise your sail for you
- deliver your sail, provide hardware and rigging if required ,
- train your crew
Contact Parasailor SA Tel +27 (0)21 689 5057 Cel +27 (0) 82 566 2197 Fax+27 (0)86 684 3726 www.parasailor.co.za
The downwind company
“Team Escape / Ekoenergysa.com” Skipped by Rodney Tanner
The Traditional Boat Association has entered the Lipton cup once again. They have sailed in this event for a few years now. The team which has sailed together for some time is all under the age of 17, except the skipper. “Team Escape / Ekoenergysa.com” will be skippered by Rodney Tanner. Rodney has been sailing since he was six years old on Oppies at Z.V.Y.C.
He has sailed this regatta seven times, Although this will be his third time as skipper. Rodney still sails dinghies, (Extra), but has a lot of experience on J27’s and L26’s.
Michael Kellet will be doing the trimming, Gabriel Bhala on the halyards, Mark Wilson will be at the mast, with Jonathan Kukard on foredeck.
These youngsters have a fair amount of experience even at this stage of there sailing career, all have keel boat experience and have competed in the following events; Table Bay week on L26’s, Mykonos on J27’ & L26’s and last year achieved a 16th in Lipton sailing on ”Escape/Quiver Out Door Gear ”. All are proficient on dinghies having sailed Extra’s, Oppies, Sonnet’s and 420 in both nationals and provincial championships.
The team will be managed by Paul Tanner of Gordon’s Bay Yacht Club, ironically the yacht being sailed by the team once belonged to Paul and was known as “Forget Me Knot”.
The Sponsors.
Ray Matthews for Escape, Central Boating & Ronstan and the main sponsor is Ekoenergysa.com
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