Phuket To Singapore Yacht Race - A Prelude Race To The Singapore International Yacht Challenge

The Republic of Singapore Yacht Club (RSYC) recently announced at the RSYC Regatta 2004 Prize Presentation & Dinner in late July that it is planning for a new major yachting event for January 2005. The event is designed to introduce two new elements to South East Asian yacht racing:
1) Long distance (500+ nautical miles) multi-day coastal racing and 2) Significant prize money.

A grand new trophy on par with RSYC’s Sir Thomas Lipton Cup (1926) is being commissioned for this event and will be endorsed as the Singapore President’s Cup.

The event will be a non-stop race from Phuket to Singapore to be held in January in between the King’s Cup and the Singapore Straits Regatta. The initial running of this race will be January 2005, tentatively scheduled for 8 to 15 January 2005. This initial race will be known as the “Phuket to Singapore Yacht Race” and will act as a prelude to the inaugural “Singapore International Yacht Challenge (SIYC) for the Singapore President’s Cup” to be held in January 2006.

The race will be run as a single RORC-IRC class, with prize money awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and line honours. The prelude race in 2005 will see a cash purse currently proposed at S$10,000 while the SIYC event in 2006 has a proposed purse of S$100,000. A notice of race will be available by early September 2004 and any inquiries about the event can be sent to siyc@rsyc.org.sg

Visit Singapore International Yacht Challenge website at siyc.rsyc.org.sg
Visit RSYC website at www.rsyc.org.sg