Flukey Wind Spoils Senders Cup Trial

Northern Advocate, 24 November 1947, Page 3

Flukey Wind Spoils Senders Cup Trial

The second Whangarei Sanders Cup trial sailed at the • week-end was a wash-out.

A very flukey wind gave no boat any chance of completing the course within the time limit of three hours and the event will have to be re-sailed. E. R. K. Wilkinson’s Davina actually crossed the line after 4J hours followed by E. Ryan’s Mercury two and a half minutes later with G. Palmer’s Airies another two and a half minutes further back. The race was held on the Parua Bay course and it was quite common to sec one contestant with spinnaker set and another not far distant on a dead slog. j Another trial is to be held on the Onerahi course next week-end. DAvTNA WINS POWELL CUP

Bavina won the combined cruising race from the Town Wharf Basin to Parua Bay for the Powell Cup. Nine boats got away in the Mark Foy start. Davina. off 13 minutes, finished 35 minutes in front of Airies (16min) with R. Wilkinson, junr, in his new Star Class Cheetah, two minutes away, in third place. Cheetah, which had a handicap of 26 minutes, appeared certain to take second place, but lost ground in a move near the finishing line. Tiie scratch boat, Spray, lost 15 minutes when she grounded on a mudbank.

A. Attwood’s Marconi-rigged 24-foot mullet-boat, Kia Ora, a recent arrival from Auckland, had her first race in this event. Site was not at home) ( in the confined waters of the upper harbour, but on the lower stretches fared very well. The Kia Ora is particularly comfortable for cruising and is well rigged.