YACHT RACING

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1935, Page 13

YACHT RACING

A centreboarders' handicap for Captain W. J. Keane's prize, sailed at Evans Bay on Saturday, resulted as follows:—

Wee .Too (3min), 4h 14m 335, 4h llm

33s Kio II (scr), 41i 12m 3Gs

Golden Ray (3%min), 4h 10m 10s, 4h 12m 40s .;.

Also started: Mayfair (l%min), 4h 15m 48s, 4h 14m 18s; Ariki (%min), 4h 15m 14s. 4h Mm 445; Kob Roy (smin), 4h 20m 295, 4h 15m 295; Phantom (l%min), 4h 17m 2s. 4h 15m 325. ' . ■

The Imp won a handicap race for Taiiranga class boats. Three others started but did not finish^

The Plimmerton Boating Club held another points race for the Yickery Cup for Z class boats on Saturday in fine weather with a light north-west wind. Only three boats started, and after a short spinnaker run to Barber's Point and a beat to the reef the Watti had gained a' fair load, which she easily maintained.:

On the run from Moon Bay to the clubhouse and then to Barber's Point, the boats practically kept in the same position, but on the beat to the reef the second time the Watti further, .increased her lead and crossed the finishing line 4min 32scc ahead-of the second boat. On corrected times the result of the. race was:— Corsair (Binfn 40see), 4h 57m 14s, 1; Vanitie (Bmin lOsec), 5h lm ss, 2; Watti (scr), 5h lm 225, 3.

The first trial for the Greyhound Pennants for the fastest time round the reef for X and I class boats was:sailed on Saturday, and- resulted as follows:—Wellesley 11, 23m, 1; Kia Ora, 23m 48s, 2; Huia, 23m 50s, 3; Ramona, 27m 10s, 4; Juanita, 29m 355, 5. '■:'•■