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Ken Stead was on the committees of both MYC and RCYC. His aim was to encourage offshore racing from the club. (FSC used to run a popular race round Wolf Rock, but it was about the only offshore race from Falmouth and some “wimps” got it stopped after a bad race!).  Ken wanted to encourage yachts to venture further afield than Fowey and go west of the Lizard.

He had sailed all his life and worked as a Physicist in a Sheffield Steelworks. He moved to Cornwall in 1955 to take up Politics and Sailing. Ken, father of Sue Treneer, died in 2010.

This was MYC’s first cup for the Scillies race. It later became the overall Offshore Series Cup and then became an award for cruising west of Lizard Point.  More recently this has been refined to the winner of a log competition for a sail west of Lizard Point, or better, beyond Land’s End.  The cup is currently awarded at a Cruising evening event during the winter following the season in question.