Terengganu are only a couple of years away from winning the Monsoon Cup.A little too ambitious perhaps but not according to Duyong Heritage Sailing Team skipper Mohd Rais Hashim.
And he may just know something that many others don't as he is now the current holder of the Heritage Bay Cup match racing competition.
Six other sailing teams took part in the match racing competition at Ri-Yaz Heritage Resort and Spa in Pulau Duyong on Saturday, and Mohd Rais and his crew proved they were the sailors of the day.
Coached by Malaysian match racing champion Nurul Ain Md Isa, Duyong Heritage Sailing Team led from start to finish, leaving Team Ri-Yaz Heritage and Spa in second place and former cup holders Team Terengganu in distant third.
Ri-Yaz skipper Wan Nordin Wan Abdulah said his mostly rookie crew members had done their best although it was clearly, not good enough.
"It was a case of so close and yet so far," said mainsail trimmer Malizan Zakaria who was match racing for the first time.
He was not the only novice sailor out on a sailboat for the first time in the second edition of the competition as Team Terengganu Tourism Action Council skipper Tun Baharom Tun Abdul Razak said also made his debut.
Tun Baharom's team crashed out early in the competition but trimmer Ahmad Fathil Abdul Ghani said," we couldn't do much better as we had to take on the eventual champions in the early round."
The other competing teams were Team Inai Kiara, Terengganu Economic Development Corporation and Terengganu Treasury.
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