YACHTING Three Junior Skippers Win Class Honours

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30035, 21 January 1963, Page 13

YACHTING Three Junior Skippers Win Class Honours

Three youths who, within the last two years, have battled among themselves for P Class honours in Canterbury, yesterday headed home three open claw champiemhip fleet* at the Charteris Bay regatta. They were B. de Thier, the 1961 national Tanner Cup representative, who won the Olympic Finn championship; D. Hobson, the 1962 Tanner Cup representative, who led the OK fleet heme, and R. Neale, jun., the closest skipper to both de Thier and Hobson, who skippered his Zephyr to the line in front of his class.

Hard competition in a stiff wind from the south-west sorted out the strong and the weak from fleets of between 70 and 100 boats. It was not a good weekend for the champions. Neither the Canterbury Olympic Finn champion, A. J. F. Ballintine, nor the new New Zealand R Class titleholder, G. S. Mander, won a race. Champion* Beaten On Saturday, BaUintine was beaten decisively by his only real rival in Finn sailing In the province. P. G. Mander; and yesterday he retired before the finish when lying In fifth position 10 seconds astern of Mander.

G. S. Mander did not contest the R class championship on Saturday but did so yesterday. He was beaten by G. J. Cooke, who left the rigging area late and crossed the starting line half a minute behind. Cooke was the only skipper to come home ahead of Mander in the recent national contest for the

Leander trophy. The New Zealand title-holders in the Junior Cherub class, the brothers E. J. and P. S. Rountree, of Charteris Bay, did little better. On both days they were beaten by another family combination. M. and B. Sinclair —by more than three minutes on Saturday and by more than 40 seconds yesterday. Record Fleet The open handicap race on Saturday morning drew a record fleet tor Lyttelton harbour—lol craft, a turnout of only four hulls fewer than the Estuary record. J. Hurst and K. Marshall, in the Flying Dutchman Hau-o-tere. made a first-class start and it appeared a good battle would develop between this boat and the other Olympic yacht of the same class—J. F. Morrison’s Van Tromp. Morrison lost a jib and did not figure In the contest; and Hunt ted the fleet home for the gun and had sufficient time in hand to take the event on handicap as well. The Olympic monotype section was led by P. G. Mander, of the Christchurch Yacht Club, with a margin of more than six minutes and G. S. Mander led the R class section with a lead of more than 10 minutes. Both skippers lost their placings on handicap. Numerous Rescues A blustery south-west wind in the afternoon deterred many crews and only 80 yachts took the water for class championships; fewer than half of them finished the course. Four pickup launches had a busy time towing home waterlogged, dismasted, disabled, or capsized boats. G. S. Mander. who twice won the Sanders Cup in three straight races, forsook his dinghy for a borrowed 14footer with the intention of giving this season’s Canterbury X class representative, A F. Burgess, a work-out before the national contest which begins next week. But Mander capsized before the start, began more than three minutes behind, and, far from making up ground over the course, finished more than 15 minutes astern of Burgess. Two spectacular capsizes were those at Hurst’s 19ft Flying Dutchman and D. Evans's twinhulled l«-footer. The youthful crew of C. Pierce’s big catamaran, which also capsized, was taken aboard the pickup launch Te Wharau, and Pierce, after righting his craft, sailed home single-handed. Harbourmaster Helps D. Turner, of Mount Pleasant, had his Olympic Finn dismasted and was towed back to Lyttelton behind the private launch of the harbourmaster, Captain A R Champton. F. G. B. Simpson led the R class entry for more than a round of die three-lap couroe; but lost his position when his centre-plate hit the mud when & split apart. In the Junior Cherub race E. J and P- S. Rountree, considered their early _ lead sufficient to take time off and come ashore to change gear before continuing the race. But as the wind increased they had several capsizes near Quaff bland and were home second. Results were:—

R Clam—cStort iM. C. Hriland and K- Fttamid. Csnttmbury). ifIRL (B. J. C. Waß and B. D. Taylor. Canterbury), 1.-3033, 3; Tgnpett (G. Witeon and H. *•<*?«- away, Waimakariri). 134dX 3: l^dalL H 'Chrtetehurch). S 'Finns.—Fintahi (P. G. MaaPteasant Point). 1 JIA X Retene (D Ninon. Pteesant Point). IXI3O. 3; LofU* Too (P. F. s. B Claax—Second rare: Vta-

tattle (G. J. and C. J. Cooke, Walmakariri), 132.17, 1; Frenzy (G. S. Mander and A. M. Holland, Canterbury). 1:23.11, 2; Contort, 1:25.37, 3; Tempest, 1:27.3, 4; Flirt (I. Donaldson and D. Hutton, Walmakariri), 1:3838, 5. Finn*.—-Second race: Finn Sarby, 1:34.38, 1; Solo (J. F. C. Morgans, Mount Pleasant), 1:34.48, 2; Jan (B. E. Treleaven, Christchurch), 1:34.53, 3; Fintahl, 1:35.7, 4; Selena, 1:35.21, 5. Junior Cherub*.—First race: Slips way (M. and B. Sinclair. Charteris Bay). 2:2.30, 1; Piranha (E. J. and P. S. Rountree, Charteria Bay), 2:15.57, 2. Second race: Slipaway, 1:44.6, 1; Piranha, 1:44.47, 2; Truna (J. Ware and I. Mackie. Charteris Bay), 1:54.12, 3. Zephyrs.—First race: Carousel (R. Neale, jun., Charteris Bay), 2:10.49, 1; Moana (J. Fletcher, Charteris Bay), 2:22.28, 2. Second race: Carousel, 2:8.38, 1: Easterly (I. Currie, Charteris Bay), 2:9.16, 2. 12ft Catamarans.—First race: Cheetah (B. Gallilee and J. Hempstalk, Charteris Bay) 1. Second race: Cheetah 1.

OK Dinghies.—First race: none finished. Second race: Zenith (D. Hobson, Walmakariri), 1:57.39, 1: Phantom (R. G. Oliver, Christchurch), 1:57.55, 2; Yah (L. Bamford, Christchurch), 2:1.6, 3. P Class.—Chuckles (J. Masson, Christchurch). 3:30.20, 1; Dart (B. Lyons, Christchurch), 3:31.50, 2; Noddy (Miss S. Currie. Charteris Bay), 3:3158, 3; Marlin (G. Stemmer, Christchurch), 3:32.19, 4; Frolic (A. Poore, Charteris Bay), 3:33.33. 5. Handicap Open Class.—First race: Hau-o-tere. Flying Dutchman (J. Hurst and K. Marshall, Charteris Bay), scr, 5538, 1; Witchcraft, 16ft catamaran (R. B. Neale and A. J. Beanland. Charteris Bay), smln, 55.58. 2; Calypso. Javelin (L. Nicholls and R. Rusbridge, Mount Pleasant), Bmin, 58.8. 3; Frenzy, R class (G. S. Mander and A. M. Holland, Canterbury), smln, 56.15, 4- Cheetah, 12ft catamaran (B. Gallilee, Charteris Bay), ISmin. 57.43, 5. Second race: Neptune, 16ft catamaran (R. Frost. Pleasant Point), smin. 1:11.20, 1; Pinta, X etas* (A. F. Burgess, B. Wadman and D. Taylor, Canterbury), lOmin, 1:17.30, 2; Wayward. Javelin (H. L. England, C. and D. Ineson, Christchurch), smin, 1:17.48, 3; Hau-o-tere, scr, 1:18.22, 4; Harmony, 18-footer (G. Moor, Charteris Bay), Smln, 1:1830, 5. Douglas Cox Cup (open class).—Wayward, 15mln, 1:50.40, 1; Fantastic. ISmin, 1:5132, 8; Carousel, lOmin, 1:52.18, 3. P class.—Firit race: Dart. scr. 3:836, 1; Noddy. 3mln, 3:9.30, 8; Chuckles, 4mln, 3:936, 3. Second race: Noddy, Imin, 1234.47, 1; Peep. 2min, 12:16.53. 8.

Cup To Kohimarama

(N.Z. Press Association) NAPIER, January 20. M. Patterson (Kohimarama) sailed excellently in the final race of the Tauranga Cup at Napier yesterday morning to win his fourth race of the series. Patterson, with 450 points from the possible 500, was well ahead of T. Gould (Pohara Beach) who gained 310.67 and B. Legg (Manly), with 250.01. Patterson also won a short “capsize” race which was held after the main event Unofficial placings were: Kohimarama 1, Pohara Beach 2, Manly 3. Oherahi 4, Victoria 5, French Bay X