YACHTING G. Mander Returns Fastest Time In Finn

Press, Volume C, Issue 29657, 30 October 1961, Page 19

YACHTING G. Mander Returns Fastest Time In Finn

The South Island R Class champion. G. S. Mander. yesterday made one of his rare appearances in a boat other than his racing dinghy. Frenzy, yet although the craft was unfamiliar to him, he returned the fastest elapsed time for the course among a fleet of 17 yachts.

Mander sailed the international Finn of his eldest brother. P. G. Mander. who won the New Zealand championship in it last Easter.

The race was a combined class handicap conducted bv the Christchurch Yacht Club over a low tide course in Moncks Bay. Mander. at the helm of Fintahi,' drew in all of the fleet but four boats at the finish after starting 23 minutes behind, in a Mark Foy start.' He was placed fourth after L. Mott's Finnessa 111 was declared not to have finished when it ‘urned into the bank short of the line 3min 35sec in front of Fintahi. Mott had begun • the three-lap • race eight minutes in front of Fintahi'.

The other Finns were not placed because their skippers did not cross the finish line, aoparently because they regarded a buoy as the mark race officials were observing and not a stake. They were the Pleasant Point yacht, Finite (A. Burgess), and tlfe Canterbury Finn, Hyphen (D. Borrelli.

Main interest centred on the Finns, although R Class dinghies and Cherubs also took part. W. Beere's Elfin, which started a minute in front of Mander. in Fintahi, finished 10 seconds astern: and Beere, who had to concede a minute to the youthful Mount Pleasant skipper,

B. de Thier, in Finn Ssrby, came home only 40 seconds in front. In fresh to light north-east condition* it was the skippers who made the most of judging the ruffles of the water surface who did best. Once B. E. Tre lea ven’s Fresco and M. Holland's Contort were becalmed while Mander took a board offshore and then passed to weather of them. Both Fresco and Contort withdrew before the finish. M. Robertson, in the Mount Pleasant junior Cherub Tremelo. gave a good showing. Off the same mark as the taller-rigged boat of the same class Tippin, which was skippered by last season’s Port of Christchurch representative in the national Cornwall Cup contest, he came more than two minutes ahead. The junior Cherub. Invicta, which gave him a minute’s start (it was sailed by C. and D. Ineson) came home more than two minutes behind also. Results, with handicaps and corrected finishing times, were:— Flutterby (H. Hobden), 20min. 4:14.30, 1; Puffin (D. T. Gardiner),. 17min, 4:21.5, 2: Tremelo (B. Robertson), 15min. 4:23.42, 3; Fintahi (G. S. Mander), scr, 4:24.35, 4; Elfin (W. Beere), Imin, 4:24.45, 5; Finnsarby (B. de Thier), 2min. 4:25.25, 6; Pirouette (H. England), 2min, 4:25.45, 7.

World Light-weight Title.— The veteran United States boxer, J. Brown, won easily on points over 15 rounds against B. Somodio (Philippines) to retain his ’ world light-weight boxing title for the eleventh time.—Manila.