YACHTING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18551, 28 November 1925, Page 18

YACHTING.

SANDERS CUP TRIALS. The second of the series of trials to select a boat and crew to represent Canterbury?,, in the Sanders Cup contest at Dunedin .next February will be sailed on the estnary this afternoon on a high tide. The race will start in the main channel opposite the Christchurch Sailing Club's headquarters at Monck's Bay at -3 p.m. The course will be to a buoy off Skylark Island (about centre of Tramway embankment, McCormick's Bay) and baek three times round. five fourteen-footers—three frcm Lyttelton and two from ilonck's Bay—will compete, and they may b« identified dermic the raoe by the colouring of the hulls. The competing boats will be:— Lyttelton ChiN—Lionet, green topsides, white bottom; Usher, dark-cleared topsides, green bottom; Magpie black t»p*ides, white, bottom. Christchurch Chib —Secret* tight hiwwa.; Betty, dark blue topsides. white kottenu The contest foar the Sanders Cup commences at Dunedin ea Friday, PeJ>raa.ry l&tlt, The ftnal date for receiving challenges ig November 30th.. Already AucMand s&d Xapier have sent formal challenges to Duttedin. and it is expected that Wellington, L*telt»u, and Southland will th.ejx cttaJlejage* ia iwf«u» T?t Jttotdaja