Definite Swing To Scow-type Boats

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31832, 9 November 1968, Page 18

Definite Swing To Scow-type Boats

Since being beaten in both the New Zealand and Inter-Dominion championships, both held in Wellington earlier in the year, Canterbury Australian Moth skippers have done some pretty serious thinking and now there is a definite swing to the Australian scow-type boats.

Already three of the top skippers—M. Seiwood, A. Holland and O. Brown—have started their new craft. Tiger Wilson has sold his boat, Havoc, to the young former P-Class skipper, Paul Stemmer. Wilson has purchased the Graeme Mander-designed Flurry from Holland. Flurry has an R-Class type hull with soft, fully-controllable stayed mast and soft sail. Flurry is a sister ship to Holland's first boat, Niggle, which he sold in Wellington after the New Zealand Championships, finishing off Flurry in a few weeks.

Still the fastest-growing class in South Island yachting is the trailer-sailer. They measure anything from 14ft to 26ft overall. They are only limited to a size which can be comfortably carried on a trailer.

After only two seasons’ activity, there will ba at least 40 on Canterbury's register, including 11 built last winter.

This season for the first time, these boats are racing regularly on Saturdays at the Canterbury Yacht Club.

The Canterbury Yachting Association programme for November and ?ecember is:

November: 16, G.P, Estuary Pennants; 17, G.P., Estuary Pennants; 16, West Coast Yachting Association; 17, West Coast Yachting Association; 23, A., Akaroa Regatta; 24, A., Akaroa Regatta; 30, W., Waimak Regatta.

December: 1, W., Waimak Regatta; 7, C. 8., P-Class and Junior Cherub trials; 8, C. 8., P-Class and Junior Cherub trials.