B. de Thier Wins Buxton Cup

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29739, 5 February 1962, Page 15

B. de Thier Wins Buxton Cup

Buxton Cup days In the Canterbury yachting calendar are notoriously rough; on Saturday, when the trophy was sailed on the Estuary the 30 yachts participating had only the lightest of airs to blow them along.

Only in the final minutes of the race did the wind change from east to south and freshen markedly, and for’a rd hands who had been lying easily in the bottoms of the boats had to climb out on the trapeze wires.

B. de Thier, the young Mount Pleasant skipper who went straight from P. Class to Olympic Finns at the end of last season, won the trophy. By doing so, he proved that hi's race-winning light weather performances .among a fleet of Canterbury championship Finns three weeks ago were no flukes. Ca-tamarans were the largest class, nine competing and the first home being L. Nicholls's boat Trio. Results were. FinnSarby, Finn (B. de Thier. Mount Pleasant). 9min. 5:8:35. 1; Fresco. R Class iB E Treleaven and M. E. Seiwood. Christchurch). smin. 5:9:0, 2: Fintahi. Finn iP. G. Mander. Christchurch). 7min. 5:12:15. 3: Fintere. Finn (G. D. Hobson. Waimakariri». ftmin. 5:12:22. 4: Okapi. OK dinghy (R. G. Oliver. Christchurch). 16min. 5:13:7. 5: Trio, trimaran (L. Nicholls and R. Rusbridge. Mount Pleasant) 9min. 5:13:7. 6: Wizard. R class iC. Moore and J. Rutledge. Mount .Pleacant). lOmin. 5:13:36 7: Finite, Finn (A. F. Burgess. Pleasant Point I, Bmin, 5:14:0, 8 I* Class Championship The second heat of the Graham Mander Championshin for P class boats was sailed at Mount Pleasant on Saturday afternoon. It was won by C Boulton, who also was first home in the first heat. Thirty-two craft started, a record for a single division class race at the Mount Pleasant Club Results were:— Skip (C. Boulton. Mount Pleasant). 3:12:56. 1: Revenge 'E. Agnew Mount Pleasant). 3:14:44. 2: Flee iD. Hobson. Waimakariri). 3:15:56. 3: Magic (R Neale. Charteris Bay). 3:17:53. 4; Halo (R Buick. Mount Pleasant). 3:18:11. 5; Petite (P Skelton. Mount Pleasant). 3:20:23. 6: Conquest (M. Agnew Stewarts Gully). 3:21:15. 7: Tiger <B. Lvons. Christchurch). 3:21:35. B’.