TASMAN YACHT RACE.
PREPARATIONS IN HAND
Per Press Association. ■ AUCKLAND, Nov. 13. Mr J. W. S. McArthur’s 80-ton schooner-yacht Morewa is now being prepared for the Auckland-Melbourne yacht race, which starts on. December 8. The distance is 1630 miles. The big mainmast was being stepped in the yacht this afternoon and later this month she will have new sails made of Egyptian cloth, the same material as was used by the Endeavour in the America Cup contest. Other entrants for the race are: Captain S. Dibbern’s To Rapunga (which is expected to-morrow from Napier); Mr J. Wray’s NgaaTti (which is reported to have left Tonga for Auckland) ; Mr N. Parker’s Queen Charlotte (nominated by the Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club), and the Suva yacht Seafarer, now on its way to Auckland.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 13 November 1934, Page 8
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131TASMAN YACHT RACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 297, 13 November 1934, Page 8
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