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58 Foot		Mr A McFarlane Fife topsail cutter

Sayonara’s name may now be overshadowed by the records of latter-day yachts but is still a legend. To this day she remains amongst the famous, and undoubtedly heads the list of being the most famous keel yacht in Australian yachting history. Her name is remembered by a Cup which was raced for up until early 1960’s by yachts of between 8 and 9 metres. Now owing to the popularity of smaller ocean types, no challenge has been issued for some years and the Cup now stands collecting dust in the Royal Sydney yacht Squadron (RSYS). Sayonara, Japanese for goodbye, was built by Mr G F Garrard, then commodore of the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria (RYCV) at a time when the largest yacht in Australia were to be seen on Port Phillip Bay. Designed as a fast cruising yawl with high bulwarks by W Fife of Scotland, being a sister ship to his own champion Cirego, she was built by Mr A McFarlane of Birkinhead, Adelaide, and launched Novemeber 1897.

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Model	Fife topsail cutter
Builder	Mr A McFarlane
Launched	1897
Length	58 Foot
Designer	William Fife
Location	Melbourne
Office	Vicsail International

$ 820,000 - A Classic

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