YACHTING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18901, 17 January 1927, Page 16

YACHTING.

CORNWELL CUP TRIALS

The Canterbury Yacht Club held r«« a* LvUel'on on Saturday altcrnoon. There . 1 fresh nor'-caster blowing, «»h » mod- . ,nd sail'n- conditions were good. crttto sea, and »U rf raco The first event ,««£ n fot Takapuna Sailing P-t wlt h the CornweU CUP co» Wm for boats "*» l ' ed p e "; r i ( E . Sinclair), Kia (G. Brasael), Sea iear v Tav ] oT ). Xlio T-vi (11. Norns), and ««« l x - - race started a, - e- ■ agreement be- ! Probably a, » innakerß were left in t„een the ■->««■: * uito enough wind for the shed, there beii.g * an eyen g^ m fZ\l s \Jt wd! together on the lead and the uoais a<\ , b roun a th< ? Kia Iwi" n l?t, then Wetu and the pile, wit" We e Mav, had baa B s r wung' up to round "tho pile be !e BrS towards Quail Sea Pefrl was afthis time in .the lead, with v- t md Wetu following in that order. T. m Z ition « ned much the same until The .P os <^ a *f T t lio third and final round, T,n DS Ka Iwi cla cnged Sea Pearl. Kia a different course to the usual one h on the beat to the light pile, and she Ceeeded in rounding the mark » ew.i«i ahead of Sinclair's boat. She maintained the advantage on the lead to the moles and finfshed; fiwt, 21 seconds ahead of Sea Pearl whoh in turn, was tain Msec ahead ot wt'r. This eavo Norris his first win. V A. a result "of . protest in the fifth race, the Sailing Committee ordered. the race to he rcsailed as between Brassel in Wetu and SinclaTr in Kia Iwi, and tho event was got oT [owing the seventh race. There w*s a perfect start, both boats crossing as tho {[J dropped. Wetu gained slightly and was Bs£ ahead at tho reef pile. At the end of the first round Bbo was 34sec ahead of Braseel's boat, and continued to improve her position at the same rate, finishing 63 seconds in front of Wetu. . In the Takapuna class, Sinclair has 4 wins, and Norris, Brasscl, and Taylor one each. There are two races yet to be sailed.

OPEN CLASS. Sorno fmo sailing was witnessed in the open class race, which started at 3 p.m. At the start, Water Beetle, .Usner, and Linnet were all jammed together at tho tripod, and a few seconds elapsed before they sorted the-msolves out. Tho larger boats followed them across. Little lona was over 5 minutes lato in starting. Tho only outstanding incident was when aiter rounding the pile tho first time, Usher and Linnet were approachin" tha pier. Usher, slightly ahead, stayed, and Linnet, caught napping, ran into her. Linnet eusta-ined a broken bob-stay, tho rin" being pulled clean out of the stem. Linnet kept on and rounded tho Ripa Island buoy, but retired in the second round. The finish was as follows: Phyllis (12min), J\ Sinclair .- .- 1 Magpie (24min), D. Pascoe .. ..2 lona (ecr), J. Waddell .. .-3 Usher (lCmin), P. Collins; Water Beetle (4min), M. Scott; and Little lona (16min), R. Sinclair also finished. RACE AT REDCLIFFS. The third President's Trophy race was sailed at Pvodcliffs on Saturday on an ebb tide with an easterly breeze, which fell away towards the end of the race. The course was from tho club jetty round the tripod buoy to the Hoathcoto stake, hack to thp tripod buoy and the Avon buoy, back rourfd tho tripod buoy to finish at the club jetty. Tho result, on corrected times, was: — Tui (15min), 4hr 15min 45sec .. 1 Te Arai (scr), 4hr 17min ssec .• - Gadfly (15miu), 4hr 17min 28seo .. 3 Secret (Bmin), 4hr 20min 12see >. 4 Betty (4Jmin), 4hr 20min 53see -. » Fidget (lGSmin), 4hr 21min lsec .. 6 Twenty boats crossed the line at 8.10 p.m. Dottrell was first oway, followed by Tu , 4.lert, and Gadfly. A very fino start, all boats being woll bunched. On. the lead to tripod buoy, Te Arai passed the leaders, and took the lead, with Dottrell, Warau, Tui, Alerto, and Betty in that order. Little change took place on the run to Heathcote stake, Betty improving her-position- slightly. Alerte struck- trouble- in" lowering her spinnaker, losing several minutes. , Te Arai continued to increase her-lead; and was first round the Heathcote stake, with the rest of the fleet well strung out. On the beat.back to tripod buoy Betty and Secret passed Tui. Gadfly had . improved her position. by this time. On the run to Avon buoy and back to tripod buoy Te Arai lapped the other leaders. Little change took place on the boat home, Tni and Gadfly improving their positions slightly; Te Arai finished well in the lead, but on handicap Tui won by 13 minutes.