LYTTELTON NEWS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 7

LYTTELTON NEWS

YACHTING A race for I class boats, held by the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club on Saturday, resulted as follows:—Start, 2.38 p.m.: Marita (L. Beaumont), Imm, 4 8.32 p.m., 1: Elite (J. Osborne), scr.. 4.10.30, 2; Kawe (S. Sinclair), Imin, 4.14.41. 3. Eighteen boats started. The Banks Peninsula Cruising Club held a launch race on Saturday afternoon for the Kennett Cup and a trophy for the wife of the winning skipper. The course was from the moles, around the reef, across to Diamond Harbour and back, twice around. The result was:— Morewa (J. S. Hawker). 18min 30sec 1 Tuatea (J. Hudson), 6min 30sec .. 2 Islay (R. Kennett), 18min .. 3 Nautilus (J. A. S. Coombes) .. 4 Won by eight seconds, the winner's time being 53min 30sec. An ocean launch race, for the Owles trophv. which was to have been held from ‘ Lyttelton yesterday by the New Brighton Power Boat Club, was postponed because of heavy weather. Mr J. Hudson has sold his well-known cruising launch Tuatea to Mr K. Moore, of Ashburton. The vessel was handed over at the conclusion of the Kennett Cup race on Saturday afternoon, and will remain at Lyttelton. Harbour Swimming Race There were 12 starters in the harbour swimming race held at Lyttelton on Saturday afternoon by the Lyttelton Men's Amateur Swimming Club, the race being won by a 15-year-old boy. A. HolmcsEdge. After several successive dull days, the temperature of the water had dropped considerably; otherwise conditions for the race with a calm sea and an assisting flood tide, were excellent. The course was from the launch jetty in the inner harbour to the beach at Corsair Bay, a distance of approximately one mile and fiveeighths. Several of the competitors dropped out early in the race. Holmes-Edge. when oft the reclamation wall, swam wide of the course, otherwise his time mnst have been much better. Off Magazine Bay M. Dromeoole sustained cramp in both legs and had to call upon A. Torrens for assistance until one of the attendant boats came up Torrens, who had been swimming strongly, lost all chance of a place thereby, finishing fourth. Result : A. Holmes-Edge (7min), 43mtn .. 1 N. Webb (7min), 44min .. ..2 W. Morris (scr), 39mln 30sec .. ..3 Morris secured fastest time, bettering his fastest time in the race last year by two minutes.