Yacht hopes on Treleaven
(ByV
JOHN COFFEY
Bryan Treleaven will be attempting to emulate two other outstanding Canterbury yachtsmen, Peter Mander and Bret de Thier, and earn a position in an Olympic, Games Finn class fleet when he competes in the national championship and trials at Auckland later this month.
The withdrawal of de Thier from contention leaves Treleaven as the only South Island helmsman with any serious chance ,of preventing a complete northern domination of the Olympic squad, and he is certain of being one of the strongest challengers for over-all honours. However, outright favouritism rests with the muchtravelled Rotorua skipper, Jonty Farmer, who showed that this country was well in the running for a Finn medal at Montreal by finishing third and then second in the last two world contests.
Both Farmer and Treleaven can call on previous experience at Olympic level. They were the reserves in support of de Thier at Kiel in 1972, and Fanner was
eighth in the 1968 Games regatta in Mexican waters. Treleaven said yesterday that he expected the trials — over seven heats from March 27 until April 2— to develop into a very close tussle. While he regarded Fanner and the Auckland trio, John Douglas, Barry Thom and Dave Schmidt, as his major rivals, he said that any of 10 yachtsmen had the necessary skills to win at least one race and have an important influence pn the eventual outcome. Of the New Zealanders who sailed in the 1976 world Finn Gold Cup at Brisbane, Farmer led the way when he was the runner-up behind the Englishman, Chris Law. Douglas was sixth, de Thier ninth, Treleaven sixteenth, Thom nineteenth, and Schmidt twenty-fourth.
Five other South Island helmsmen, Alister MacFarlane (Wanaka), Dave Eastmond, Ben Winters, Dave Campbell and Dick Wells (all Canterbury), will also be travelling t,o Auckland. MacFarlane, with his thirtyeighth, was the most prominent at the world series, with Eastmond (forty-third) beating Winters by one placing.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34103, 16 March 1976, Page 30
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