Inter-Dominion Yachting
A. McKEOGH, of the * Christchurch Yacht Club (above) on the trapeze wire of J. F. Morrison’s Olympic class Flying Dutchman yacht which will represent Canterbury in the inter-Dominion contest for the class on the Wai ternate harbour at Easter. Thirty-five of the graceful 19ft lOin centre-board yachts will compete in the contest, die first race for which is on Friday afternoon. Seven races will decide the title before Tuesday evening. An Australian contingent of 11 boats will be led by R. Tasker, of Perth, run-ner-up to P. G. Mander at the 1956 Olympics and now considered the finest small-
boat skipper in the Southern Hemisphere. Taskef won the world Flying Dutchman title two years ago. Morrison, who won the Sanders Cup contest for 14-footers in New Zealand in 1957 (when one of his crew was an elder brother of McKecgh, his present for’ard hand), is a secondary schoolmaster. Included in improvements for his boat Van Tromp, made specially for the contest, are new mahogany plate and rudder, waxed sails —including a full jib—and new stainless steel trapeze wires to replace those which broke soon after the photograph above was taken in Lyttelton harbour.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30103, 10 April 1963, Page 13
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