Yachting Malaysian
GOOD FORTUNE RAINS DOWN ON MALAYSIAN The Monsoon Cup village YACHTING events, loosely associated through Keith Ingram, the editor of Professional Skipper,reports the Match Racing Association. on the inaugural Monsoon Cup held at Pulau Duyong Finally Scott said, “Let’s pool our Te r engganu, which may prove to be a catalyst for rights,” and said to the association sports tourism in Malaysia. members, “Each one of you give me some rights to your event and the television rights, and I’ll pack- he inaugural Monsoon Cup, which was held from age them up and present them to a November 29 until December 4, 2005 in Terengganu, total sponsor.” was the brainchild of the Malaysian Prime Minister, Swedish Match saw the benefits YAB Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, as part of his The of the promotional package and vision to develop the state of Terengganu on the eastern Monsoon came on board. The inaugural Tcoast of Malaysia. Cup event, the Steinlager Cup, was Organised by the Terengganu state government, the regatta held in Auckland. Since then the brought together most of the best yacht racing skippers in the circuit has consisted of eight or nine events. Ideally they are trying world. It was also the 50th official event of the Swedish Match to keep the series to nine or a maximum of 10, says Scott. Tour, and served as the Malaysian leg of the prestigious interna- Some events have come and gone, and unfortunately the tional sailing event. Auckland event dropped out because the America’s Cup was tak- Dubbed The Formula One of Sailing, this professional sailing ing up so much of the economics in the marketplace.
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