YACHTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 70, 23 March 1934, Page 11

YACHTING.

A NEW WAKATERE. PEVONPORT CLUB'S REGATTA. OLD BOYS' RACE OFF PONSONBY. (By SPEEDWELL.) The racing season is drawing to a close and although seven clubs are holding fixtures this week-end, after Easter there are few events, and another month will see the racing fleet stripped and ready for winter quarters. The season has been marked by wet and stormy week-ends, but with a fine Easter, which now appears most likely, this will be forgotten, and the season will be remembered for its keen racing in the small classes, which were augmented by at least a dozen new boats, several of them justifying the handicappers keeping them on scratch.

To-morrow the Devonport Club will hold a regatta off Victoria wharf. Good entries hare been received. There are 16 keel yachts competing for the Duder Cup for this class. The third heat for the Speedwell Cup in the Wakatere class will be held at. this club's fixture, 15 boats competing. The Takapuna Club will hold two races for the Z class, also a race for the Fellowship Cup, between a senior crew representing the Ponsonby Cruising Club and the Takapuna Club. Both skippers and crew in this race must be over 35 years of age.

The Manukau Yacht Club will hold a general handicap for yachts that have started in at least three races during the past season, the first prize being a donation of £5. The Otahuhu Sailing Club will hold the final cruising race to-morrow, around Brown's Island and back to Buckland's Beach. The Point Chevalier Club will hold a general handicap this week-end for Mrs. Harold Schmidt's trophy. The Orakei Model Club and the Manukau Senior Model Club will hold races at Onehunga and the Ponsonby Club at St. Mary's Bay.

Tho fixtures next weeK are the annual 1 races from. Auckland to Coromandel, start- 1 ins on Thursday evening, the annual race to Pollock on the Manukau and the regatta to be held: off Coromandel at Easter. The committee has agreed to give the same prizes ( £4, £1 10/ and 10/) for a race for 16 and IS-footers at the regatta in place of a race from Auckland. This 'will obviate the possibility of an accident, as even if they go right through the same night, the incentive to "carry on" usual in a race, will not be there. Many of the boats of this class, whose owners look forward to a cruise at Easter, have decided to go to one of the bays in Waiheke on Thursday night and to cross the Gulf next day. A suggestion has been made to start the race for this class on Friday morning, but while the starter is ready to do so, the idea has not met with general support. Good entries are promised m the classes 20ft and over, centre-board boats and the keel yachts, which win largely be drawn from the C and E classes.

devonport club. regatta off victoria wharf. Tie Devonport Yacht Club will hold its annual regatta to-morrow afternoon, all events starting and finishing off the Victoria wharf. Tie entries and handicaps are as follows: — Naval Whalers. —To start at 2.20 p.m. Course, same as X class, once round. Post eD Keel' Yachtk. —First prize the Duder Cup and miniature, held for one year. To start at 2.30 p.m. Course from starting line between Victoria wharf and mark boat moored south, round Bastion (port), thence round Duder Spit buoy (starboard), thence to eastern red light buoy ,+hpn°ce to thence to Bastion (starboard), thence to mark off Stanley Bay (starboard), ana finishing at starting line, lorang , Nea Toa, Rawene, Victory, Prize, \V ai tangi, Vv'aione, Ida, Ladye Wilma, Kotiri, ward, Kotuku and Argo. Handicaps will be declared at noon to-morrow and posted Class?—To start at 2.40 p.m. as keel yachts. atel ? Celox 3m, Rakoa 12m, Waiapu J.6en, Isobei 22 m Class.—To start at 2.50 p.m. Course from Victoria wharf round Bastion (P thence round white light (port), thence round Resolution buoy ( st , fstarroimd mark boat off Stanley Bay (startioard) , to starting line. Maroro, Manene, Manu, Mawhlti, Matarere. Tonrse V Class. —To start at 3 p .in. Course, cnms as M class. Paroro, Manutere, Marianne, A®. MysJ^m? sm; Drone, 6m; Mischief, Daphne, 7m, SU s'cilTs—To start at 3.10 p.m. Course, same as M class. Marlene, Sirona, i?cr, Mistral, 31m; Clio, 4m; Aotea, 7m; Wairound mark off Stanley Bay (starboard), twice round, finishing across starting line. « K llm's* 6m T ; an P d ah X 7 Cliss C -To Ta C r C t at 3.30 p.m. Valet, IST*^ Cup^ttW heat) -T« X \ St cYass a once rou^r-Waka U nui; wil-o'-the-Wisp, Wairere, W etazell, Whaka Wanderer The first four boats auaUfyfor the final for the cup. All compete in the handicap race. Post en Tauranga —To DebS! Silens. Post entries.

HEENB BAY CLUB. RACES FOR SENIORS AND JUNIORS. The Heme Bay Sailing Club will hold afternoon 'for efas, |Me •Wifb7 thYm hands eveS a wmVe S /o? the hfhSd over*" the "cllfs course, SSk Sce^round back to starting line, keeping starboard. for.the senior The entries and skippers io Memo> Va , race are:—Comet, Geo. p ' sen; Kancye, Aotea, W. Hewson; Redßover. _ Frankham; Blue, i> enn es;' Norena, Roy Lidgard: Siola. ueu. Mc whirter; Captain Percy; v ic Swa llow, W. Red Bird, Jack WJlcocksj ° C leaver. Hurley, and Bulls . I _!j l e, liall dicaps: Nancye, Juniors.— Entries and Kohu, Norena, Hiker, scr; Comet. Siola, . Red Kover> Sm; Aotea, 10m, Heathe, N i pen> Blue lfim: Gue, Swallow, IT Blue Bell, Nose, Bull's Eye, 20m , L,eoneit , this Red Bird, 22 m. The 1)y Mr. G. Hodgson. Mr. Ivo Dennes will be in charge of both races.

POINT CHEVALIEB. CLUB. RACE FOR MRS. SCHMIDT'S TROPHY. The Point Club hold a general ha "£ £pn te d bv Mrs. Harold <>nd for a trophy prese" start at noon off Schmidt. The race will start the clubhouse, and is P club ifJ a 2 4The latest i a ta Welcome Jack, footer named Astoric, ce ntre-board class She will compete in tlie clu race to Coromandel. .

THE SEASON'S FIXTURES. March 24. — Eevonport. Yacht Clubs Regatta; 7'l kUP Alaniikau Yacht Club, h r^H|£%J th r iDS M sa" a sss r »s.' <ii»—.«. claeser. vacht Club race to March 30—Manukau lacnc Pollock. . . Tjpsraita. three classes. '» p „s t c SSf T«cut ci»b- '«TiS! ks,srcVf^£K«» i(s '" ! 4 {•«.>*•"- Ap f |f2|-Royal xlz. Ya^t^quadron^ final

tuck 14in. at stem 16In. A dagger-type of wooden centre-board is used 14in wide by 4ft 6in deep, dropping 3ft 31 » cl "'' at tl keel, which is sin by gin. The boat is decked-in from the stem for s£t to jubt at of the mast, with a coaming 10ft J on S a " a side decks of lOin; also a 2ft deck alt. The mast is 17ft long and well stayed, wltli a crn<!stree sft from the truck, of lain dj tin ?rnnhark The jib has an area-of 2a lauare feet and the mainsail 60 square feet. The new plans, which can be obtained from the club, Narrow Neck, Devonport, are carefully worked out In every detail an ff nrofeEsionally built should not exceed to S3O complete, at which price one would have a very handy, modern type of boat, fast, dry and strong enough to last S3 every satisfaction to their owners.

TAKAPUNA CLUB. RACE) FDR FELLOWSHIP CUP. rounds of the Fcl . Inter-club Ha cre ws representing lowship Cup, oeiwe and the Takatbe Po J?f°? b *ju be held to-morrow afterpuna Clui clubhouse and sailing noon, starting ou ' course. The con- §«««« promised. t

manukau yacht club. final harbour races. JNS 152 dub 12ft uin cinss. xi g All races Ya St°,-f stery II Bcr Ranui 1m Her* Lone CO.-: Naomi 30111, V erdl, Lucinda 2m, offl Sonolsa IOJm, Jess 221 m, Sb Se 3 olfc of the day are Messrs. W. Vaughan, P. J. Auger and A. Grupeii. OTAHUHU CLUB. RACE AROUND BROWN'S ISLAND. The Otahuhu Sailing Club •Brill'M« » cruising wee 'o-morrow . race .will start i the Tnmabl River an<? SUfihuhu and P^ ron °w w R. Parkinson's auxiliary' U yaclit Forest Gold, and will act a « se c^ JZ-: r ffi; Champagne, Allies. Kuhiri TT en Mr. H. Fearnley will announce the s ta i J 4icaps- -before- the- start.

A WAKATERE CRUISER.

PLANS OF A NEW BOAT. The Wakatere class of 14-footers. which was introduced to the younger generation of boating enthusiasts in the columns of the "Auckland Star" in June, 1032, has grown in popular favour to such an extent that over 50 boats have been built locally and many others in centres far removed from the Waitemata. At the last Anniversary Regatta, 27 boats of this class competed and entries of 15 are usual in club races. The Wakatere Club has energetically fostered the class, more especially amongst the boys, who were given every encouragement and assistance In building their own boats. Races are held almost every. Saturday from October to May, and several other clubs add a race for the "Wakas" to their fixtures.

It is recognised that the class has limitations. It was designed primarily as a cheap, light boat that could be hauled out and carried off the beach after use. It has successfully filled these conditions, but a desire has grown amongst the keener members for a boat that can be left on her moorings all week and one in which more extensive cruising can be undertaken, and at the same time costs be kept down to a minimum. Without departing from the size and sail area of the original class (14ft overall, with 85 square feet of sail), a new plan has been drawn by Mr. J. Brooke, which appears below. The new boat has much heavier planking and scantling than the first boat: also an increased beam (sft sin) and depth (Ift 6in) amidships, giving her more freeboard: also a bow that is finished with a stem in the orthodox manner. No increase has been made in the sail plan or height of mast, and the new boats will race in all handicap events for the class. The cost has naturally Increased. The No. 1 boat cost from £ 8 to £10 when built by amateurs. The materials, including all the necessary timber, hardware, sails, rigging, etc., will cost £14 for the new boat. At this price the boat Is wonderful value when compared with other 14footers, and they should become as popular as Wakatere No. 1. Three of the new boats are now In course of construction and their performance against No. 1 and other types of 14-footers will be followed with interest. The new boat is 14ft overall. 13ft 2in waterline, sft sin beam, Ift 6iu depth amidships. 4ft wide at the tuck, planking 6in by gin, freeboard amidships 12in, at

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ORAKEI CLUB. The Orakei Club will continue the weekly races for models on the Basin to-morrow afternoon. The club now has quite a number of dinghies of its own and members appreciate the conveniences provided for them. As usual, a number of events for juniors will be held between the senior events. MANUKAU CLUB. The Manukau Senior Model Club will hold the second heat of the Harrison Cup to-morrow over the two and a half mile harbour course, also the final heat for the Bonner trophy. The in this race will be Supplejack. Hono, Kauri 11. and Maybe. Mr. G. Park's Kauri 11. of the . Park one-design class, was the winner of the first heat for the Harrison cup. PONSONBY CLUB. The Ponsonby Model Yacht Club will hold their usual races at the week-end in St. Mary's Buy. The events include threefooters, four-footers and allcomers. HARBOUR RACE. A meeting of delegates from the three model yacht* clubs will be held on Monday at 45, Kaxangahape Road, when the date of the annual harbour race will be decided and several amendments and additions to the sailing rules discussed. NEW BOATS BUILDING. It augurs well for the next yachting seasou to find that the order for a number of new boats has been placed already. Mr. Fred. Lidgard is building a 22-footer for the late owners of the 22-footer Hetty, and work is well advanced. Mr. W. Rogers, of Curran Street, Ponsftnbv, has orders for a 14ft T class boat for Mr. H. Bailey, of Northcote, and an 18-footer V class for Mr. Bourne Wilson, of Ponsonby, late part owner of the S class boat Rangatira. Work will be commenced at once. The 18-footer is an enlarged edition of the Marlene, one of two smart 16footers W. Rogers built early this season. Mr. C. Wild, of Stanley Point, is building a 38ft motor boat to the order of Mr. McQueen, who has sold his 32-footer. The 32-footer which Messrs. Cox and Filmer are building for Mr. Miller is nearing completion, also the 26ft mullet boat for their own use.

RACE TO COROMANDEL.

STARTING NEXT THURSDAY.

Entries for the two races from the Iving s wharf to inside the entrance to Coromandel harbour will close with Messrs. John Burns and Co. at 10 a.m. next Wednesday. The classes are keel yachts and centre-boardets from 20ft up. The prizes in both races are £4, £1 10/ and 10/. A special prize has been donated by Mr. John A. McNeil for the first centreboard boat to finish, and by the committee for the first keel boat to cross the finishing line. These prizes will be handed over to the winners as they finish. The race for 1G and 18-footcrs for the same prizes will be sailed at the regatta held off Coromandel wharf, sweepstake races will also be held for both the other classes, the stake being subsidised liberally by the regatta committee. The entry fee for the race down is 5/. Already several boats have signified their intention to race. The two races will start together at 8 p.m. off the King's wharf, handicaps appearing in next Wednesday's issue. The prizes will be paid out on Saturday morning. A big sports programme has been arranged for Saturday afternoon and all day on Mondav A special excursion steamer leaves on Thursday night. The mark boat at Coromandel will display two white lights and all boats must report to it.