YACHTING D. Hobson To Sail For Tanner Cup

Press, Volume C, Issue 29681, 27 November 1961, Page 8

YACHTING D. Hobson To Sail For Tanner Cup

D. Hobson, oi the Waimskanri Sailing Club. Will represent Canterbury in the New Zealand P Class contest for the Tanner Cup to be held at Westhaven. Auckland .on January 20. resentative, R NwSe. of Charteris Bay, was fifth on the points table when the provincial trial race series was concluded scheduled to have been sailed at the week-end to select the representative, but Hobeon was declared the nominee after three sifceesrive wins s . A fourth race was wiled yesterday afternoon to sort out a runner-up. and C. Boulton, of Mount Pleasant. emerged as the one. Neale, who has done little F Class sailing this season, led easily in the first two races on Saturday. He was over the line at the head of the fleet in the first race, but was disqualified because of a racing breach, falling to yield right of way. He was well ahead in the second race when a shroud shackle came adrift and he was dismasted. Neale will, however, sail at Westhaven as the Charteris Bay representative In the Taurangi Cup inter-club series. As a result of the trial races sailed in the last two days. Boulton will represent Mount Pleasant in the Tauranga Cup contest; Hobson will represent w-tmakariri; and B. Lyons will represent the Christchurch r acht Club. Lyons finished in third place on points in the Canterbury trial series, showing an unexpected, but nevertheless satisfying. improvement on his „.rf—msnoe in club racing on the Estuary. of the trials were:— First Race—Flee (D. Hobson, Waimakariri) 1. Skip (C. Boulton. Mount Pleasant) 2, Tiger 18. Lyons, Christchurch) 3. Revenge IE. Agnew. Mount Pleasant) 4. Wimpy (R. Wingfield) 5. Conquest (M. Agnew. Stewart's Gully) «. Petite (P. Skelton. Mount Pleasant) 7. Kembo (C. Morgan. Mount Pleasant) 8. Tiki (B. Sinclair. Charteris Bay) 9, Benmore Brochure.—A 36page brochure, including a number of coloured reproductions, has been produced by the Otematata Welfare Association on the Benmore hydro-electric project. It describes the river and the building of the dams, the organisation of the work, the construction village of Otematata and gives a summary of facts about the project.

Puck (D. Brandt. Chartaria Bay) 10. Second Race.—Flee 1. Skip 2, Tiger X Halo (R. Buick, Mount Pleasant) 4, Puck 5. Bantam (I. Treleaven. Christchurch) 8. These were the only boats to finish the course in stiff conditions. Third Race.—Flee 1. Halo 2, Skip S. Magic (R. Neale. Charteris Bay) 4. Tiger 5, Puck 8. Conquest 7. Kembo «. Revenge 9, Kotuku (D. Le Page, Mount Pleasant) 10. Fourth Race.—Skip 1. Magic 2, Flee 3. Tiger 4,,Ccuiquest 3. Tiki g. Puck 7, Bubbles <G. Grant. Mount Pleasant) X Shrimp (M. Watkins, Mount Pleasant) 9. Kotuku 10. Finishing times were not recorded. Official points of the leading skippers were:— Hobson. 350 points. 1; Boulton, 283, 2; Lyons. 173. 3; Buick. 123, 4; Neale, 106. 5; Brandt. 105, «.

Nineteen boats started in the trial series.

Catamaran Wins Stacey Event

Twenty-one boats sailed in the Beryl Stacey open class handicap race conducted by the Canterbury Yacht and Motor Boat Club on Saturday. In lively conditions, the 18ft catamaran Bikini sailed by W. Cordell and I. Yemyss was first over the line. Results, showing handicaps and corrected times, were:— Air Raid. Idlealong (C. Barter). IZmin, 3:15.12. 1; Bikini, catamaran (W. Cordell), scr. 3:15.22. 2; Fintahi. Finn (P. G. Mander), 7min, 3:16.15. 3; Griffin, Finn JO. Barron). 12mfn, 336.41, 4: Psyche. Idlealong (C. F. Dann). 14min, 3:17.5. 5; Tyrade. Idlealong (J. May), 14min. 3:17.9. 6: Finnesse, Finn (R. Drayton). Smin, 3:18.41, 7. Sargentina Cup A race among Takapunas for the Sargentina Cup resulted:— Technique IT. Smith), Smin, 3:52.11, 1; Vanessa (J. Tissiman). Imin. 3:32.20, 2: Venus (N. Norris), Smin, 3:33.15, 3; Finestra (W. Parratt), scr, 3:36.51. 4. R Class yachts held a handicap race. Results were:— Vision (A. W. Shields and B. Marriott), scr, 3:42.5, 1; Impetuous (B. J. Wall and B. Taylor). scr, 3:44.11. 2; Result (G. Good and D. Balm). 3:44.2X 3; Sari (J. Morrison and D. Taylor). scr, 3:44.28, 4: Hi Ft (K. Prier and B. Wadman), 3min, 8:55.49. 5.