2023 Botany Bay Australia Day Regatta hosted by Cronulla Sailing Club

NAVIGATORS’ CUP

Notice of Race

 

This, the 25th running of the Navigators Cup, is a special offshore race commemorating Australia’s historical sailing links with Botany Bay – our first port.

It celebrates the outstanding achievements of those great navigators, Lieutenant James Cook and Le Compte Jean-Francois Galaup de La Perouse, both of whose remarkable explorations and navigational feats around the oceans of the world are epic sagas, and Captain Arthur Phillip who brought out the First Fleet in 1788.  All three and their ships entered Botany Bay. La Perouse and Phillip, coincidently were there at the same time.

 

The race for divisions 1 & 2 yachts will start at the Bass and Flinders Monument at the Port Hacking Estuary.  

Yachts in Div 1 offshore  will race to the captain Cook Buoy, then to Wedding Cake Is, via Wave Rider on starboard to the finish in the Port hacking

 

Yachts in Div 1 inshore  will race to the captain Cook Buoy, then to Wave Rider on starboard to the finish in the Port hacking

 

Yachts in Div 2 inshore  will race to the captain Cook Buoy, and return to the finish in the Port hacking

 

Etchelle’s  will race 2 sprint races as per CSC weekly race program

 

There will be great spectator viewing from the headlands of Cronulla and along the coast from Cronulla to Bondi and return.