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The Weight of the Winner's Cup
≈ 6 min
The Ternmouth Autumn Regatta ended at 5 PM, and the winning crew's silver — the solid-silver Founders' Cup, awarded since 1922 — sat on the presentation trestle awaiting the 6:30 dinner. By 6:10 the cup on the trestle rang hollow and light: a well-made electroplated copy stood in its place. The real cup left the boathouse sometime between the last race and the dinner call.
Subject
The Founders' Cup
A solid-silver regatta trophy engraved with a century of winning crews, insured but effectively irreplaceable, swapped for a lightweight plated replica.
The suspects
- Marcus Delane — Regatta timekeeper
- Ruth Okafor — Trophy steward
- Callum Brandt — Losing crew's skipper
- Della Voss — Catering manager
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