Yacht Club :Royal Cape Yacht Club
Country: Republic of South Africa (RSA)
Syndicate : Team Shosholoza
Sail Numbers: RSA 83 (The first Version 5 ACC boat built)
Syndicate Head: Captain Salvatore Sarno
Shosholoza is a song (= "Go forward") of the South
African miners and is also sung at sporting events.
Founder and initiator of the team was Salvatore
Sarno (South Africa Manager of the Mediterranean
Shipping Company in Durban).
The team sailed with a mixed crew to demonstrate
that apartheid is over.
ITA-48 the sister ship of the LVC 2000 winner ITA-
45 was purchased by rumoured € 525,000 She was
shipped to South Africa and later on back to
Valencia.
The new RSA-83 was the first IACC yacht built by
the new Version5 rule. She reached the 7th place of
the LVC 2007.
RS-83 Team Shosholoza challenger for the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup
Founder and initiator of the team was Salvatore
Sarno (South Africa Manager of the Mediterranean
Shipping Company in Durban).
AMERICA’S CUP HISTORY 1983 - 2013
