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The Stooehaven Cup , presented by The Right

Honourable Lord Stonebaven , PC . GCMG , DSO , Governor-General of Australia 1927 , for the 12-ft

Cadet Dinghy Interstate Championship .

Rangare , sailed by Archie Robenson , woo d1e first Stonehaven Cup for

Tasmania in 1927 .

The opponunity was there for interstate racing and the first race was conducted on the Derwent in

March l924 , between Ta .<; mania and ~ ew South Wales . The following year the championship was beld on Sydney Harbour . The Royal South Australian Yacht Squadron then became interested . followed by the Royal Queensland Yacht Club , the Royal Brighton Yacht Club and tl1e Royal Perth Yacht Club .

Since 1926 the control of Cadet dinghies has been in the hands of a Cadet Dinghy Management Committee . They were sailed in all States wilb

.. Fir11t year of S1ooehilVC ! fl Challenge Cup . perhaps the oentre now being with the Royal Brighton Yacht Club . The dinghies are now built in fibreglass with the first so constructed winning the Stonebaven Cup in l983 .

The magnificent Stonehaven Challenge Cup was presented in J 927by l . Qrd Stonehavcn . PC . GCMG , Govemor-General of Aus1ralia . as a perpetual tro · phy for interstate competition for the class . New South Wales dropped out of the Ston <> haven Cup in

1934 . Interstate championship winners to 1986 were :

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