NEWSLETTER July 2000 Editor: Neil Millward
SPARKMAN & STEPHENS ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER July 2000 Editor: Neil Millward www.s-and-s-association.org In this issue: Global Regatta: a new format – page 2 Who were they? Nautical quiz – this page The S&S Swans– pages 2 - 3 For Sale and Wanted – page 6 Regional news – pages 3 - 5 Classic Regattas world-wide – pages 7 - 9 Exchanges and crewing – pages 5 - 6 Officers & Committee – page 9 One of our new recruits … The most popular Swan ever built … … Doug Reid's Sapphire, during the Classic Regatta in Auckland, Feb 2000. Matteo Salamon's Swan 38 Only You, seen here in pre-season Italian sunlight. Who were they? The following items were named after their inventors. Who were they? (Answers on page 6.) Patrick Matthiesen's Inverness, improving 1. Barber hauler. on last year's result in the Antigua Classic 2. Beaufort scale. Yacht Regatta. 3. Cunningham eye. - 2 - Global Regatta - new format time over the yacht placed second in its class or overall. 9. Any dispute over the interpretation of these Returning from our highly successful Annual rules shall be settled by appeal to the national Dinner weekend in Rotterdam in January, a yacht racing authority of the country in which number of committee members put their minds to the Association’s Chairman resides. the issue of how the Association's Challenge Cup should be awarded in future years. We were Regional Secretaries are invited to submit their helped by being strike-bound in Calais for two list of Qualifying Races to the Chairman by the hours, waiting for a car ferry to Dover.
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