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Wow! What an absolutely brilliant day’s racing the Lipton Cup contenders had on Saldanha Bay today. The top three contenders for the Lipton Cup gave those lucky enough to follow them live on the water,

Two sailing master-classes on Day 4 of the Lipton Challenge Cup proved conclusively that the best sailors in the country are competing for the honour of holding the Lipton Cup aloft after the 10th race

The defending Lipton Cup team, Nitro sailing for Witbank Yacht & Aquatic Club (WYAC), won the third and final compulsory race of the 2021 Lipton Cup going away from the fleet in grand style. Today

Today was a great day for highly competitive yacht racing as Saldanha Bay produced all the ingredients for this – wind, flat seas, a few shift and more importantly two highly competitive and closely fought

Two wins in two consecutive races is nothing to be sneezed at, yet this is what the Challengers of Record, the Royal Cape Yacht Club, achieved on the first day of the Lipton Cup on

by Richard Crockett Like most people who follow the sport of sailing in our country, the Lipton Challenge Cup is the one competition which stands head and shoulders above all others, and which commands much

The first race of the Lipton Cup kicks off on Monday (16 August) on Saldanha Bay where one of the most up-to-date and modern one-design racing keelboats available will square off in an attempt to

The Lipton Challenge Cup sailing event is this country’s most iconic yacht racing regatta, with its origins dating back to 1909 when Sir Thomas Lipton gave the South African Sailing Community the magnificent Lipton Cup

Lipton Challenge Update:   Dates & Venue for Lipton 2021 Confirmed After a long period of uncertainly owing to the COVID 19 situation, Witbank Yacht & Aquatic Club and their “Nitro” sailing team led by Mike

  Dave Hudson  – Chairman of the Lipton Trustees  – announced that the 2020 edition of this great event has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.