RECORD POSITION

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 9

RECORD POSITION

ROYAL PORT NICHOLSON YACHT CLUB

Progress in all its activities is r©» corded in the fifty-sixth annual report of the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club, to be presented to the annual meeting next Tuesday night. The improvements of recent seasons have been continued, and the club now has a record membership and is in a satisfactory financial position. The club again provided the defender of the Sanders Cup, said the report. Mr. A. Coleman's Vanguard went. to Bluff for the contest, but did not succeed in retaining the trophy, being runner-up to Huia, of Canterbury. The report congratulated Canterbury and expressed the hope that the contest at Wellington next year would be sailed in the same sporting spirit as that at Bluff. Though she failed in the Sanders Cup contest, Vanguard did win the New Zealand X class championship.

Social activities of the club during the year were mentioned in the report. The principal event was tha dinner, which replaced the usual smokf concert, and was a complete success.

The Wellington Citizens' Anniversary regatta committee was formed during the year, following the suggestion of a meeting of representatives of various yacht clubs called by the Royal Port Nicholson committee. It was considered, said the report, that ,the taking over of the Anniversary Day regatta by a committee of citizens would be better than the previous system of leaving the regatta control to a yacht club appointed each year by the Wellington Provincial Yacht and Motorboat Association. The whole of the financial responsibility for the regatta now lay with the Citizens' Committee.