Admiral's Cup
The Admiral's Cup was from 1957 to 2003 one of the most important sailing competition for offshore yachts ; it was considered the unofficial world championship in ocean sailing.
Host
The regatta was organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) in Cowes on the Isle of Wight . The prestigious comparison has been held every odd year since 1957. National teams with three boats each were allowed; at the last event in 2003, club teams with two boats each competed. The Admiral's Cup has at times been confused with the America's Cup .
history
In 1957, Sir Myles Wyatt, of Admiral (chairman) of the wanted Royal Ocean Racing Club and his club mates Peter Green, John Illingworth, Geoff Pattinson and Selwyn Slater an appreciation of the traditional, but decayed after the 2nd World War to international insignificance Cowes Week reach . They proposed a new sailing competition to the RORC with the title Admiral's Cup and at the same time donated the gold-plated silver cup worth 300 pounds sterling (at that time around 3000 DM). A team ranking (three yachts per nation) should decide the winner. The races should be calculated according to a point system, whereby the two inshore races on the Solent should be single, the 220 nautical miles long Channel Race double and the Fastnet Race at the finals triple. The two inshore races were the Britannia Cup and the New York Yacht Club Cup of Cowes Week. In 1977 the races were expanded to include a third inshore race.
In 2001 and 2005, despite intensive efforts by the RORC, the races were canceled because there were too few interested parties. Since then, no more Admiral's Cup has been held, although there were also applications from Travemünde . A regatta of the Kongelig Dansk Yachtklub on Øresund planned as a follow-up event to the Admiral's Cup in 2013 and 2014 had to be canceled due to lack of interest.
Events
In 1971, British Prime Minister Edward Heath was the skipper and owner of one of the winning Morning Cloud ( S&S 42) boats. He was also the captain of the victorious British team consisting of the three yachts Prospect of Whitby , Morning Cloud and Cervantes IV .
The Fastnet race was one of the individual competitions and the final regatta of the Admiral's Cup until 1999, but is now organized as an independent event. In 1979 the Fastnet race ended tragically. The regatta field got into an unpredicted hurricane . Many boats overturned in the Labadie sandbank area , drowning 15 participants and four rescuers. As a result, the security rules were tightened and the number of participants was limited.
Victories and placements
winner
The teams from Great Britain provided nine winners, four from Germany and three each from the United States and Australia.
German successes
- In 1973 the German yachts Saudade , Rubin , Carina III won
- In 1983 the German yachts Sabina , Pinta , Outsider won
- In 1985 the German yachts Outsider , Rubin G VIII , Diva won
- In 1993 the German yachts Pinta , Rubin XII , Container won
literature
- Brian Moynahan, Daniel Forster (Photos): Deep Sea Sailing: Chasing Yachts. In: Geo-Magazin. Hamburg 1980,2, pp. 70-90. Informative experience report. ISSN 0342-8311
- Riccardo Villarosa, Jörg Neupert: Admiral's Cup, Delius Klasing Verlag, 1985, ISBN 3-7688-0525-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Getty Images: Admiral's Cup During Cowes Week: Close action during the Admiral's Cup race in Cowes Week off the coast of the Isle of Wight, circa 1987 , accessed February 6, 2020
- ^ Royal Ocean Racing Club: RORC History - 1957 , (English), accessed January 14, 2020
- ^ Riccardo Villarosa, Jörg Neupert: Admiral's Cup, Delius Klasing Verlag, 1985, p. 36
- ↑ Christoph Schumann: Admiral's Cup in Germany? In: Yacht . January 3, 2002, accessed January 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Lars Bolle: New attempt in 2014 off Copenhagen. In: Yacht . December 5, 2013, accessed January 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Royal Ocean Racing Club: Admiral's Cup - History of the Admiral's Cup (1971) , English, accessed January 12, 2020
- ↑ Getty Images: Morning Cloud Crew, British Prime Minister Edward Heath, captain of the British team in the Admiral's Cup series, poses with his team aboard his yacht 'Morning Cloud' at Southsea, Hampshire, before the start of the first race, to Le Havre and back, 30th July 1971 , accessed 6 February 2020
- ↑ Lars Bolle: Admiral's Cup canceled. In: Yacht . April 7, 2005, accessed January 9, 2020 .