MOTORING ON WATER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19727, 29 August 1927, Page 7

MOTORING ON WATER.

MORE YACHTING FOR SYDNEY. A RELIEF FROM THE ROADS. One of tho developments of the coining summer in Sydney will be in motor yacht ing. Not speedboat racing nor anything of the kind; that will be confined to the comparative few. A Sydney correspondent says:—"More and more people will take to motoring on the water in preference to motoring on the road. They w • not abandon their cars entirely. Rather will they use them 'in association with then yachting trips, out the principal pleasur mg for many will be afloat. They have nothing to saj- against motoring trips, hut for genuine pleasure such trips will be confined to days when the multitude is not let loose on the highways "Crowded roadh mean nerve strain, dust and sometimes ebullitions of temper ad mittedlv of no use to anybody The wate> offers peace and real relaxation There is room on Sydnev harbour, and if more is required 't is a simple and safe run in ordinary weather to the Rawkesbnry whence the ,ock like waters of Cowan mnv he entered The desertion of the loads hv these people will not make anv differ ence in the crowds, hut it is helieved that vear by year an increasing number will take to the sea. with the result that the building of motor-vachts will be an ever'mprovinsr industry. " * No room on the roads.' said one who was considering a yachting fcrin 'So rrive me the wide wav of the water, where T shall no! 'innl-prl nf nil the time.' "