CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -For the first time a female crew member featured in the team that won South Africa’s Lipton Challenge Cup, a sailing regatta steeped in history having been contested since 1909, after the Hermanus Yacht Club triumphed in Cape Town on Saturday.
The defending champion Royal Cape Yacht Club played host to the five-day event, Africa’s most prestigious regatta that bears the name of the man who gifted the trophy 116 years ago, Thomas Lipton, who used the race in part to promote his tea business.
