Yachting.

Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 79, 4 January 1902, Page 19

Yachting.

I thmk it would be well on Sunda\ mornings if yacht owners would study their crews a little more than they do at present. It is quite a common thing to see some of them crawling down to the yacht sheds at 11 o'cloclrubbing thedr eyes as if they had iust been dragged out of bed, while their poor, thankless orews, in most cases, had to leave their breakfasts in order to be at the yacht sheds at 9.30 a.m.. to go out yachting It is aJ&o a common thing in fine \\ eather to see five or six of our yachts lying at thear moorings. Seeing there is so little time to indulge in this fine sport I think it is a crying shame. There is one yacht which only leave* her moorings for a few hours once r week, and I cannot understand why such people go in for yachting. The Logan brothers are to the fore again with Culwulla, a thirty-footer, built for a Sydney gentleman, which has just won the 100-guinea Gold Cup of the Sidney Yacht Squadron. Two small pleasure yaohts, twentyfive feet in length, which are to bear the names of ''Fighting Mac" and "Weather Boa rd . " have been built in Auckland, to the order of the Hot Lakes Steam Navigation Company, and are to be placed on the Rotorua Lake for the benefit of holiday-makers. The three-quarter rater yacht Princess, built by Messrs. Bailey and Lowe, for Prince Kalanianaole, of Honolulu, was shipped hemce for the Hawaiian Inlands bv the mail steamer Ventura.

Mr. W. Coffey, well known in athletic circles in Wellington, wires me the season's greetings, and states that he will be in Wellington next week, whether on a holiday or not does not appear. He is attending the championship meeting at Oamaru this week.