Surf-ski ocean race

Press, 18 February 1980, Page 6

Surf-ski ocean race

The Olympic Games hopefuls, Geoff Walker -and Daryl Neate (Taylor’s Mistake), were comortably first and fastest in the annual Taylor’s Mistake to Sumner surf-ski ocean race on Saturday. > <■ - The double-ski team—aiming for Moscow in the pairs, event of canoeing—were well clear of John Quilter, the Sumner singleski paddler, and 2Jmin ahead of the second fastest team of Daryl Symonds and Simon Davis, another Taylor’s Mistake doubleski combination. The twenty-first ocean race was contested in a choppy 2m surf, and was accommpanled by two Sumner Liftboat Institute craft, Europa Jet I, and Miss

Green Bottle, Taylor’s Mistake’s inshore rescue boat. , i..Walker and Neate rounded the bluff iff 18mln 17sec, Symonds and "Neate - covered the distance in 20min 48sec, and Quilter in 21mln Isec.;; - . Richard Boyle (North Beac&S- single -’. ski) was fourth in 23miri.,55sec. 1 .'.The • first milibu Aboard paddlers -were Brent ' . Todd (Sumner,?, junior) and Murray Johnston-. tSumner, - senlor); th* first - canoe- erews .were.TNew Brighton- Xjunior) 'arid : Taylor’s Mistake■ (senior); and' the -first in other- craft, were North Beach (senior beat) and Jamie Clark (Taylor’s Mistake, junior ski). Of the 19 starters, 18 finished.