AT BAYSWATER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 28, 3 February 1936, Page 8

AT BAYSWATER.

DAMAGE TO PLEASURE CRAFT. GOOD WORK BY OFFICIALS. A number of pleasure craft were torn from their moorings at Bayswater yesterday at the height of tlie gale. Several boats which are usually anchored off the ferry wharf snapped their mooring chains and drifted broadside on down Shoal Bay, and in two cases finished up . 011 the Northcotc shore. Mr. JO. Tabu--1 teau's 18ft keeler Vagabond disappeared during the night and was recovt ered on Sunday morning on the rocks of Northcote Point. Two planks in the side were stove in and the stern was badly battered about. An 18ft 1 open boat, Eagle, was driven ashore ' near the clubhouse of the Takapuna ' Boating Club, but did not suffer any 1 extensive damage. Mr. F. Lidgard's 1 keel yacht Konini broke adrift about 12 ' o'clock yesterday morning and was blown right across the bay on to the i mud at Sulphur Bcacli, fortunately ! escaping undamaged. During the morning an ISft mullet boat, Ben Bolt, the property of Mr. Gordon Brookbanks, broke her anchor warp and drifted rapidly towards the > embankment. Officers of the Takapuna s Boating Club were on the watch, how- ! ever, and prepared to fend her off the , rocks, but, Carried out by the wind, she i narrowly cleared the end of the Baysr water' baths 'and grounded at the foot s of the boating club slipway, where many helpers soon towed her to safety. , At the height or the gale many i anxious owners attempted to reach i their craft in dinghies, but most of them . were soon ignominiouslv returned to ; shore on the crest of the next wave, [ and- after two or three attempts gave up in disgust. A 12ft Bin Takapuna class yacht, owned by the Wliangarei i Cornwell Cup crew, which had been left under the gantrec of the boating club, .was salvaged during the gale and pre- • scntcd a very battered appearance. Mr. T. I?. Johnston's Takapuna class yacht Trevic was swamped on Saturday night and broke her mast. Another Cornwell ! Cup boat, the Tui. the property of the Hamilton Cornwell Cup crew, disappeared from her moorings in Shoal Bay, and had not been recovered last evening. Passengers on the- morning ferries to Bayswater were treated to exciting trips, ' but many failed to gain any enjoyment from tlie transit. Throughout the morning rough passages were cxpei ieneed, and on several occasions when the boat began to lurch in the heavy seas, women passengers screamed. Mr. C. McCrae, of Norwood Road, Bayswater, was spending the night on his yacht Tofua, and, becoming alarmed at "the heavy seas, set out to swim about three-quarters of a mile to shore about six o'clock yesterday morning. He was picked up by a passing launch, the oe."'ipants of which were subsequently marooned off the Bayswater wharf. DAMAGE AT REMUERA. SHOP WINDOWS BLOWN IN. During the height of yesterday's cyclonic storm two shop windows were blown in at Remuera. One was that of Mr. R. J. Walker, grocer, at the corner of Lucerne and Remuera Roads, and the other that of Mrs. Elliott, confectioner, at the corner of Minto and Remuera Roads. In neither case was the damage excessive. '