2022 Stonehaven Cup win by Albert Sailing Club crew

The 92nd Stonehaven Cup regatta for junior sailors has been sailed from Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron and won by the ASC Quest team from Melbourne's Albert Sailing Club. The Albert Sailing Club boat skippered by Hamish Gilsenan-Rawlings and the female crew of Mietta, Maddy and Scarlett were clear winners for the week long event sailed in January. They had wins in the two invitation races, and seven of the nine short course format heat races in wind conditions which covered the full range from 5 to 20 knots.

The 2022 Stonehaven Cup was contested by 11 crews from 5 different clubs in RS Quest boats. Second overall was the Maertens sisters-brother combination from Sandringham Yacht Club, with a crew from Royal Melbourne skippered by Alex Ward third overall. The Otto A Meik Perpetual Teams Trophy was won by the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron. At the presentation dinner at RMYS special mention was made of the crew from King Island (Tasmania) who had two top 3 heat finishes and finished sixth overall in a borrowed boat. Interstate entries were limited to one entry from Tasmania, as a consequence of border restrictions in late 2021 and uncertainties created by the ongoing national COVID pandemic .

The Stonehaven Cup is an annual event for crews of 3 junior sailors under 19 years of age representing their club. It is the longest continuously contested junior/youth one-design dinghy event in Australian sailing with the Cup first presented by Lord Stonehaven the then Governor-General in 1927. Up until 2018 the event was sailed in the wooden, then fibreglass, 12 foot cadet dinghy class. Since 2019 the event has been sailed in the fast growing RS Quest dinghy class.

The Stonehaven Cup committee, the Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron staff and volunteers, and the parents who supported the crews did a great job to run a successful regatta, particularly as the final decision to proceed was only made in November.