A YACHT DISMASTED.
The five-rater Rainbow, owned by Mr. A, T. Pittar, met with an accident on Saturday afternoon last, by which she carried away her mast. The yacht, which was, entered for the class handicap race of the Auckland Yacht Club, left her moorings in Judge's Bay to come up to the starting point,"off Queen-street Wharf, shortly after two p.m., and came up with a single reef in the mainsail. She made very good time of it, and when off Northcote, went about to come down the harbour again. Something went wrong aloft, and suddenly the mast went by the board, breaking close off by the deck, The accident was observed from the Union Company's steamer Ovalau, at anchor in the stream, and the steamer's oil launch, in charge of Mr. Stevens, the chief officer, went to the assistance of the yacht, which was towed alongside the steamer. After getting tie sails and geai on hoard of the yacht, she was towed in to the Queen-street Wharf, and afterwards taken to an anchorage between the Railway Wharf and Quay-street Je'cy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10939, 19 December 1898, Page 4
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181A YACHT DISMASTED. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10939, 19 December 1898, Page 4
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