History of the Lipton Cup

MBYCA Meeting May 15,2015 Frank Hart Squantum Yacht Club Boston Tercentenary

• Early 1930 George H. Voter, Chairman of the Tercentenary Committee of the Massachusetts Bay Yacht Club Association contacts Sir Thomas Lipton requesting a trophy suitable for a yacht race. • Sir Thomas commissions Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, Ltd of London to design and construct the sterling silver trophy LIPTON OFFERS TROPHY FOR RACE OFF BOSTON

Famous Yachtsman Donates Cup to Help Celebrate Bay State Tercentenary.

Special to the New York Times.

BOSTON, April 5. ‐ Sir Thomas Lipton, perennial challenger for the America's Cup and donor of innumerable famous yachting trophies, is going to help Massachusetts yachtsmen celebrate the Bay State's tercentenary. In response to a letter from George H. Voter of Boston, chairman of the tercentenary committee of the Massachusetts Bay Yacht Club's association. Sir Thomas has cabled that he will be delighted to offer an appropriate trophy to be raced for during the tercentenary water carnival this Summer. The trophy will be specially designed by a prominent London firm of goldsmiths under Sir Thomas's personal direction. The races for which this trophy will be offered will take place sometime late in July, probably about July 27, in Boston Harbor. Whether the Lipton trophy will be awarded to the winner in any one class or whether it will be open to several classes of yachts upon a point system will be determined later. It will go to a sailboat in any case. Reprinted from the New York Times, April 6,1930, Section II, page 4. The Lipton Cup

•29 inches high •Ship under full sail with waves •Winged ladies •MBYCA pennant and Sir Thomas Lipton’s flag •Pilgrims with the Mayflower engraved •On back •The “J” boat Yacht Shamrock V •American Flag •British Flag First Regatta

• A series of races for Indian Class boats held during the summer of 1930 in Hingham Bay, Quincy Bay, Dorchester Bay, and the waters off Winthrop

• Won by skipper Herbert K. Allbright of Squantum Yacht Club with crew of George Allbright and Fred Hersey • Second place went to skipper Ed Gallagher Sr., PC of Squantum Yacht Club with crew of Herbie Arvidson First Awards Ceremony

• December 6, 1930 the awards ceremony was held at Point of Pines Yacht Club in Winthrop • Cup presented to Mr. Allbright by Boston Mayor John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald • Mr. Allbright to possess the Cup for life per the Deed of Gift Present Day Regatta

• 1986 –Don McGilvray, PC and other members of Squantum Yacht Club persuade Mr. Allbright to deed the Cup to MBYCA • 1986 –MBYCA designates Squantum Yacht Club as custodian of the Cup • 1987 –First Regatta held at Squantum Yacht Club in Quincy Bay Fleets

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Thunderbird Awards Ceremony Fleet Presentation Award Presentation Award Presentation Other Lipton Cup Regattas

• San Diego Yacht Club ‐ 1904

• Northwestern International Rowing Association –Canada ‐ 1907

• Royal Yacht Club of Victoria – Australia ‐ over 100 years Other Lipton Cup Regattas

• Provincetown – 1907 – one time

• Chesapeake Bay Lipton Cup • Gulf Yachting Association • Waikiki Yacht Club Fund Raising 2015 Regatta