YACHT RACING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20961, 26 August 1931, Page 15

YACHT RACING.

the tra'nstasman cup. INTEREST OF AUSTRALIANS. / / l»Y SPINMUFT. . Considerable interest is now being take In Australia in the transtasrnnri yacli race and, according to advice received b; "e Akarana Yacht Club, donors of tli "'anstasmun cup, there is every reasoi to helievc that the race will be an annua one. . Discussing {lie Akarana Club's actio 3!1 presenting Hie flip, Mr. F. J. Bcnnell iifr-ski|i[>or,of (lie Oiniara, which too P art ,n 'he race, last season, said he wa Sony that an Australian club had no Seized the opjior■(unity of participating was the most important move in th history of .Australian and New ZeaJani yachting and the gift of the cup wouh f Jo much to. make ocean racing a perrna fent fixture. For seaworthy boats, pro perly equipped and handled, the trans Gasman race*' was no more hazardous thai a run round club buoys. If he couh * e p his way clear to do so, he would cer * a »ily challenge for the cup. r F. \V. Jeffers, commodore of th Akarana Club, stated at the annual pri/j ♦listribufion of the .Manukau Yacht <1 n< ■Motor-Boat Club that his club had for Warded printcil rules governing the rac various yacht clubs in New Zea Jafid, .Australia, America, England, Ire '♦Hid and Scotland. At least three boat likely to start in Ibis year's con •est, and there was a possibility of i fourth boat competing. Jho Akarana Club will hold its annua presentation of prizes in the clubhouse Campbell's Point, this evening. The fune won will take the form of a social am dance and the prizes will be distribute! by the harbourmaster. Captain IL 11. Ser gearit. ' fho annual meeting and presentation o pi'szes of tho Devonport Yacht Club wil tako. place in Ujo clubhouse to-morrov evening.