Cruising Club Winds Up Season
The Whangarei Cruising Club applied the closure to its 1945-46 season at the week-end with three yacht races and the usual camp-fire gathering at Manganese Point. Hard scuth-west winds were blowing when A and B class boats got under way in the race from Port Whangarei to One Tree Point, and fast times were recorded. Most of the yachts completed the course in a few minutes over the hour. The 18-footer Aquila and the 16footer Narnu turned on some great exhibitions of planing when sailing off the wind with extra canvas aloft. Tiie results were:— A Class; Shamrock (27min.> 1; Aquila <2min.) 2; Spray <lmin.) 3, Wairefe II (scr.) 4. B Class: Rapahoe <l7min.), 1; Namu iscr.), 2: Rona M (6min.), 3. All boats were reefed down for the combined race from Manganese Point to the Town Wharf Basin. The handicapping was right up to the mark as the first three craft arrived home within a minute. Muru was the winner from Rona M and Aquila. ■
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Northern Advocate, 2 April 1946, Page 4
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