messing about in boats

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30073, 6 March 1963, Page 17

messing about in boats

Cautious A yachting event was not held because of unfavourable conditions for the first time this season at Lyttelton last Saturday. Several boats took the water before the time appointed for the Sillers Memorial Trophy and were bowled by gusts from a north-west wind. G. S. Mander. with S. Lee for’ard, sailed in C. Holland’* R Class dinghy Hush; this boat’s mast off the wand bent dangerously, Later in his own boat Frenzy, Mander saw the tubular gooseneck, reinforced with struts, tear apart under pressure. Of the boats which capsized, onlyß. Flaws'* Jdlealong Air Raid could not return to Erskine Point under its own power. It drifted along way across the harbour before it was spotted by toe pickup boat and towed home. Ashore. G. Good’s dinghy Reply was packed up by a gust and dumped, holing toe hull. After viewing the difficulties and the damage before the race, and considering that only one rescue launch was inadequate in the conditions, the judge, Mr A. W. James, declared the event off. It will be sailed ait a later, date. Within half an hour of his ruling the wind had dropped and several boaits were launched. They went for a. pleasant sail and when the nor’-wester petered out were almost, becalmed and had to work to get back to toe rigging area.

(above), who won the j Olympic Finn class cham- | pionship at the Akaroa i regatta last week-end. I Ballintine, a pioneer in the I class in the North Island ] nearly seven year* ago, is the present Canterbury. title-holder. * ¥ * ; Crew Of Six ; The veteran topsail cut-1 ter Pastime is to race < again. Still considered one of the fastest and smartest j yachts in southern waters, , the 45-f ooter was built by I Millers, the Lyttelton I shipwrights, at Corsair < Bay in 1886 and has been ] sailed by three generations of toe Milter family , since then. It has a long i record of wins at Welling- i ton, Dunedin arid Lyttel- 1 ton regattas and is one of 1 toe few yachts to have cir- ] cumniavigated toe South Island. Pastime was first, built as a toree-tonner | but was later enlarged to i its present size. It draws I six feet, has double skin 1 construction and moat in-' terior fittings are teak. j The boat’s new .owner, , A. Wright, intends to work i up for ocean racing next I season. Although it is pos- i sible for two people to 1 handle Pastime, a crew of ! six men at least will be j required to work it under , full racing canvas. i i ¥ ¥ ¥ | I Orpheus D. Hobson was lucky to i secure a second placing l in the Aral Canterbury 1 championship for the OK ' class at Monties Bay on Sunday. R. Brewer, sail- j ing Orpheus, had crossed ( toe line 10 seconds ahead i of Hobson; but Brewer I was caught in an ebb tide 1 and drifted back outside ’ toe distance mark. When { he came about he aeci- j dentally drove over the ( buoy and was disqualified, i I