Yachting titles won by Coates and Penny

Press, 29 December 1980, Page 3

Yachting titles won by Coates and Penny

A consistently fine display by Stewart Coates;- enabled him).to Avin the South lsiand 37 class yachting tipe at'Pigeon Coates won all five heats title witfii ease. He-niiiustered ; . different: wind conditichs von., each of . the three-days of the championships comfortably. ■: The -first heat on : Friday was sailed in very good'«conditions, with an easterly ’ breeze; the two heats ; on Saturday were raced ih'a’light to moderate easterly, :ahd the .final two heats yesterday took place

in a-? 20 to 25 knot southr westerly. . '. ; Two? wins -and’ two seconds were enough to give Philip' : Penny in Sneaky South Island Laser-title. Penny -was disqualified >in the fourth heat yesterday, morning, but .as all competitors dropped their worst performance, that -resulCmade no difference to the-'final placings. .fe • ''

Tony 7 Geddes and (Kevin Jamie, bdthr'of the Canterbury Yacht, and ’Motor Boat Club? filled the minor , placings, with consistently good performances?:?.' '

u A'total of 142 yachts took part--;in the.. Pigeon.. ?Bay ; club’s regatta over the week- . end. " Abbreviations used-in the results:—Canterbury Yacht Club i (CYC),' Canterbury Yacht, and Motor Boat Club (CYMBC), Pleas- ’ ant Point Yacht Club (PPYC). Results, with final placings in : each heat and overfall : points, • are: — * "S Laser.—Sneaky Heat (P.' Penny, ' CYC), 1, 2.1. dlsq., 2, six points, 1; Uniaked (A. Geddes, CYMBC), 2,1, 2. 4. 5, 14 points, 2; Hangover (K. Jamie. CYMBC), 4, 3, 4, i 2, 1. 16.7 points, 3. 1 ; 3.7.—8ig Wooden Bitch (S. ' Coates, CYMBC-PPYO. 1, .1, 1, :1; 1. no; points. 1; Silly Bunt (P; Wallis, CYMBC), disq..,3. 2, i 2.-2, 23.0 points. 2; Free N’Easy IK. Holland, CYMBC-PPYO. 3,2, 6, 4.:3. 33.1 points. 3.