messing about in boats

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30043, 30 January 1963, Page 9

messing about in boats

■ Recognition ■ For’ard hands are stiff ■ tower deck in some circles, ■ and all too few skippers act ■to ensure their crews S receive the recognition they ■ deserve for their efforts in ! succssaful racing teams. At ■ the presentation of the a Leander Trophy in Dunedin ■ this month by Caaunander E L. D. Miller, “the skipper” Bof the winning boat was ■ called upon to receive the ■ national R class prize. In J front of a half foil of ■ people G. S. Manger ■ pointedly kept the gatherE ing waiting a few momenta S while he insisted his for’ard shand, A. M. BoHaad, ac- ■ company him to the dais to ! receive the trophy. With ■ the prize in his hands, he ■ addressed the audience: ■ “Any one with any sense I knows you cannot win eon's tests of this sort without a s topline crew—and that I [ have.” * ■ Regatta ■ The Auckland Anniver- ! sary regatta invariably ■ draws the biggest fleet of a yachts racing on the water ■ together in New Zealand. 5 This year 867 entries were ■ received by the regatta B sailing committee for 40 ■ races. The regatta was ■ held on Monday. 5 ★

Estelle

The Kofatanarsma Junior Cbeeub yacht EsMta which won the national etam title at AucMand tert week-end was runner-up in the 1682 content at Lyt-

telton. Ito Bet skipper, I C. MeGill, to aged 17. McGill bad the lightest bout in Ihe contest last summer and showed that he was a yachtsman to bo reckoned with; but the defending chflKnpicMiß now beaten by him—E. J. and P. 8. Rountree, of Chatteris Bay—had hardly tost form in the intervening year, which makes McGill’s win ell the more meritorious. Furthermore, the Rountrees were sailing with a boat conaiderefoiy lighter than the craft they won the Olympic trophy with last year. Apart from McGill, the only crew to win a race at Auckland in the recent contest were A. F. Raper and P. J. Brittenden, of Mount Pleasant.

Courses dodi mA qm SnrrihitZir mate OKUM Aoc djßiwdMKd JRMhttaj in CbriatataurCh very etaritar from one weekend to ffae other. C. F. P—» frto yamte Garterburr MDreMtattw Idle•&XW sBHKMMT. ■MMNn knagmataon ad Xgrtatfrn teat Saturday wmn he charted a eeunae with one triangle over to Church Bay from Erektaw Bota* »nA soother to Quaff lotend. There wee ptenty or mi uue im 11*. G. 8. Manderis Ifroniy scored fbntaot time in the R Clam event tar nine aonouda from A. W. BhiaMto; Frenoy was akfryered by M. L. Bngtend. rtrto Mender sat on Me Jtaaff nugting a rib owcksd st Bbqt the pmvtama week-end. A. J. Balltafftaw acveand to have weulhßred'P. G. Mander on the find stag of the Olympic Finn aase, but he overtaM the top marie end come home 15 eeconda behind. The CtatatatauKh Tact* Club ia to be aommantted for sending eeven-dootans racing out to the Scanner bar on two daya test week-end. Junior ffeippers at Mnavke Bey gat all too little experience beating into a steady wtaad and tide, and more of these new trim could be >*4 It would be folly to mate a regular practice of it; and the dub hm obviously waited until _ ideal coucntiiona prevail before laying the course. Feers are often expressed about ttte dancer sendin< youngsters out to the bar in ynrtl craft, but if tidal and wind condttaona are aM right, if the boya wem lifejackets, and there la a rescue launch snndtabie, there to no reaeon for more of theee courses not