SANDERS CUP

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 8

SANDERS CUP

(To th« Editor.)

Sir,—-Your correspondent ,has missed the point. The contesting boats are eligible. The object of the trials is to find the boat most likely of the three that will have a reasonable chanoe of bringing the Sanders Cup to Wellington.

Mr. Willsori writes ah interesting letter evidencing as" he. Hqea that the altered 'Sanders Gup vegulafiona -do "SW 'produce iii average weather faster,: :but slower boats. We air know thafcthe new :typo of boats tan piano or fly before tho wind if given more than average -veathov, but so e«n a kerosene tin. It requires, however, the skill of a builder, sailmaker, skipper, and crew > to produce a craft that will wi>rk up against the wind, and *thi»'ii where Poggy in the trials has no rival. To , her lot it has fallen to demonstrate that tho Sanders C«p regulations as constituted havo boen a retrograde'step < and require altering. . -"' If yaolitiug is to progress' the* the Peggy should, be allowed to go 'to'Xyttelton and demonstrate, there a» sKe has done here the fallacy of the - existing * regulations. It has been $tA$ th,it the Poggy is a light weather boat. It i» purely a matter, of tho wish being, father to the thought; she is neither a fine weather boat nor a bad weather Ijoat; she is a flyer in average weather, and has qualified.^! am, etc., -■ . EQUINOCTUL. . 6th-December. ■■.:■. ■ •.