EVANS BAY NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 5

EVANS BAY NOTES

HOLIDAY SAILING There has been little activity at Evans Bay over' the holidays, due mainly to the mass migration to Tauranga. Of course the weather has not been conducive to much pleasant sailing, although Sunday was practically perfect. Quite a numDer of boats visited Day's Bay, Including, of course, the Muritai. The Irex, which also apparently intends taking up permanent quarters there, was anchored not far away, and the crews of the two boats livened the crowd up a little by gambolling up and down the beach in a singularly light-hearted fashion. The Rob Roy, Southern Maid, Jannet, and Aileen were also at the bay, and when the breeze fell away on the homeward journey the.Muritai gathered them all in and brought them home on the end of a line. Ralph Millman brought the Arawa into Day's Bay by imitating the original canoe of her name and using paddles over : the side. The Viking took a party of adventurers out to Baring Head for a successful fishing trip, but even the presence of a well-known chemist could not prevent that southerly swell taking its toll. It is open to doubt whether it was the swell:or just that Christmas

feeling, but, in any case, few of them showed much interest jn lunch. Anyway, they did bring back some fish, so they must have attended to business fnr a while.

The seven-footers have, as usual, been keeping the flag flying, and most of them have been out nearly every day for a spin and, as like as not, a spill as well. The Kestrel reached the Sounds without incident and Clift Catchpole, who took her ,across, reports that she made a very fast trip under sail. No reports have been received from the Maranui, which left on December 27, but as she had two days of perfect weather she must have reached the Sounds all right. . The launches Veca and Hinewai are also cruising on the other side of the Strait lan Kirk has been-out in his new acquisition, the Wellesley 11, to get the feel of her and is making her step along in a manner reminiscent of this fine old boat's palmiest days. With a good crew, he should make his presence felt in club races shortly. The Irex has been doing, quite a lot of sailing lately with a new type of unsinkable bathtub tied up astern. According to her crew, four people can take a bath in it without drowning. The writer is of the opinion that this is quite possible, as he tried to row it once and got quite giddy.

The launch Dana is back in the water again and the repairs to the Wai-iti, after her accident, are almost complete.

Cyril Headland has been tuning up the Baby Taubman for the New Year Regatta, and Townie Williams reckons that he has the Spitfire doing about 400 m.p.h.—or something. The Aotearoa has been cleaned and polished, so in the very near future the speedboats should make a good showing in the Bay.