Contreras said the race started from
RHKYC's Kellett Island clubhouse in Causeway Bay.
The race used to be Asia-Pacific's premier bluewater event, attracting glamorous international fleets of nearly 100 yachts in the 1980s, but it has languished since the 1990s when co-host (with Manila Yacht Club)
RHKYC switched sponsorship to a local waters China Coast regatta in October.
Sadly, in the early 90s,
RHKYC switched sponsorship from the CSR to a coastal around-the-islands event known as the China Coast Cup, and the bluewater classic has languished ever since, although fleets are beginning to build up again.