TAKAPUNA CONTEST

Press, Volume C, Issue 29473, 27 March 1961, Page 17

TAKAPUNA CONTEST

Mount Pleasant Win

The Estuary Takapuna cham-pion-hip sailed on Saturday morning was won by a green skioper with an injured crew. They were the Mount Pleasant boys P. Mayne and B. Obom who beat the 1961 Christchurch port representative in the national Cornwell Cup contest by a decisive margin. Mayne, who is not long out of the junior P Class, acquired his yacht Coriano only at the beginning of February. Oborn sailed with a broken arm encased in plaster. On the first beat of the race Coriano went to the front of the Takapuna fleet, which included a Lyttelton yacht Finestra sailed by W. Parratt. Parratt, who is the winner this season of the Canterbury championship of the class, was not eligible for a prize in the Estuary race which he won, but only by 43 seconds from Coriano.

Obom’s partial disability cost Coriano time each time he went to set a spinnaker and the yacht lost ground on every run. Yet the two boys managed to make it up beating and all but caught Parratt at the finish. L. McGrath, in Zest, was far from Cornwell Cup form and added another statistic to a recent list of indifferent performances when he could not come within 2min of Mayne over the line. Official times were:— Coriano, 1:58.7, 1; Zest. 2:0.20. 2; Fantasia (P. Muggles ton). 2:10.59, 3.