TO RACE IN HOBART
WELLINGTON YACHT
14-FOOTER IMPUDENCE
Wellington will be represented at the Tasmanian Centenary Regatta, by the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club's fourteen-foot square-bilge centreboard yacht Impudence. f Mr. C. D. A. Highet, who is part owner, will be her skipper, and the other members of the crew will be Mr. George Fisher, and probably Mr. Jock Holmes and Mr.. Maurice Stevens. The latter is a Wellingtonian now In Auckland.
The sailing events in connection with the Tasmanian Centenary are to be held at Hobart between February 12 and 24, and Impudence and her crew are to leave Wellington on-February 5, arriving back here on March 7. Impudence was designed and built by and is owned by Mr. C. D. A. Highet, of Wellington, and Mr. H. A. Highet, of Waikaremoana, and since she first took the water at the Paremata regatta at Easter,: 1933, has raced with conspicuous success, winning most of her contests in light weather. At present she holds the Royal Port NichI olson Yacht Club's 18ft and under championship, the Wellington provincial 14ft square-bilge championship, and the Paremata 14ft open championship. She was raced.first at Paremata, and was brought to Port Nicholson for the 1936-37. season. Her most recent success was in the Blair Shield race last Saturday week, when she came home first of a field of eight of the best fourteen-footers on the harbour, nearly twenty minutes ahead of the second boat, Kitty, Wellington's Sanders Cup. representative. I The Australian 14-footers against which Impudence will sail in Hobart are of a type different from the Impudence. They are displacement boats, built especially for good windward work whereas Impudence has,a planing hull -for off-the-wind work. The question that will be decided by the contests will be whether the fast planing hull can make up enough time "downhill" to compensate for the advantage that will be gained by the Australian boats to windward. An- Auckland boat, Vamp, is also to go to Hobari^
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 12
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329TO RACE IN HOBART Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 12
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