LOCAL SANDERS CUP TRIALS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 27

LOCAL SANDERS CUP TRIALS

THE FOUR COURSES IX DETAIL

Yachting in Port Nicholson this year is said by competent authorities to be of a higher standard than" ever before. Whethei this is so or not will be demonstrated as far as the X class fleet is concerned next Saturday, on the following Sunday, and in the following weekend; when the combined Campbell Cup contest and Sanders Cup trials will be sailed. Entries for the contest closed today. Probable starters will be the Kitty, Lavina, and June, of, the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht - Club; the Tassie, Jannet, Idono, and Peggy, of the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor-boat Club; the Monica and Miss Josephine, of the Paremata Boating Club; and the Kia Ora, of the Plimmerton Boating Club: The number of starters will-be a record for Wellington Sanders Clip trials. In all but one boat the crews, will be assisted by a lot of experience, and provided the weather is neither too light nor too heavy Wellingtonians should see a series of keenly-sailed races. Arrangements are being made by the Wellington Provincial Yacht and Motor-boat Association to charter the steamer Janie Seddon to follow the races, should sufficient support be forthcoming from those interested. One hundred passengers are required at 2s

between themselves, being lucky with the wind until the last round when Mabelle was caught in a flat patch at Arkley's buoy, Kathleen getting away just in time carried the wind with her right to the finishing line. .The tide at Arkley's buoy was too strong to [allow progress against it and most of the boats aimlessly drifted about until the breeze awakened itself after a quiet little nap. Kathleen . won but was most fortunate with the wind. ■Mabelle took second place, j Spitfire has asked for.a heavy blow;next Saturday. . :. .