Top Dog Trophy Series - Tomes Cup pursuit race preview
by RHKYC Media on 6 Jan 2015
RHKYC Lipton Trophy 2014. RHKYC / Xaume Olleros.
The Tomes Cup pursuit race, organised by Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and presented by Old Mutual International is the third constituent event in the Club’s annual Top Dog Trophy Series, designed to identify the most successful helm over a variety of pursuit race courses and conditions.
The series includes the results for Lipton Trophy and Around The Island Race, together with Tomes Cup and the HKRNVR Memorial Vase, scheduled for 1 May 2015.
The race is held in the eastern area of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, taking in Shau Kei Wan, Tai Koo Shing, Kowloon Bay and Hung Hom in the course of the race which is expected to attract between 60 competitors from Hong Kong’s one-design fleets and Big Boat classes.
The slowest boats will start first with the higher rated boats spending the afternoon playing ‘catch up’ and gradually working their way up through the fleet. The finish line will be set at the mark which will finish the first boat as close to the target time of 1630hrs as possible.
The first boat to cross the line will be declared the winner and will lift the Tomes Cup, one of the Club’s oldest pieces of silverware which is inscribed with 'Sugar Refiners Cup won by Naomi April 1st 1880' and which was gifted to RHKYC by the Tomes family in the 1960’s.
Full details of the Old Mutual Top Dog Trophy Series can be found on the RHKYC
website.
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