YACHTING.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7081, 19 March 1910, Page 12

YACHTING.

[By “ SIU.NNAKEB.”] To Aro Sailing Club will hold a race this nt'le.aooii for a trophy presented by Mr it. U. MeiJl. Weather permitting this afternoon the .Motor Boat Club will hold a picnic in one of the bays around the harbour. Last Saturday afternoon the TUorndtm Dinghy Club held the third and final race for liio club championship. Lul proved an easy winner from Vera, ami she will hold tltd championship pennant for this season. There will probably bo a dinghy race this afternoon ‘for a trophy presented by Messrs dagger and Harvey, of Auckland.* After the Easter holidays are over there will be another general handicap race lor boats of the P.N.Y.C. Heel. The course will be .something out of the ordinary, and should provide an interesting nice. It will be from the usual starling post to and around Pinnacle uiui.v, thence to and around Korokoro, and back to the starting point.

The long distance ocean race of To Aro Sailing Club was decided over the No. 1 course of the P.N.YC. last Saturday afternoon. Tho race was sailed under sealed handicap condition, with a good ucv’westorly breeze blowing all over the c-:uiae. The seven competitors all

got r.’.vav well together, and after rounding Ha!.- .veil buoy spread out. Red Wing ariiG'.l homo Jirst, but, taking into con-si<liu-.:t i’.-a the handicaps, she hud to give place tu jsiimacl and VaJeta for first and .-.t<vud place. Following were ’ the lu alicffn:. and the names in parentheses denote the name of tho persons who sailed the respective boats:—Nan, scr {T. Kigg); Red Wing. smiu (M. Kaniill); Lotus, lUmiu (U. VVaid); Ishmael, 12iflin (0 Higgle); Doreen, 12min (C. Watt); Rival, IJmin (S, McWilliams); Valeta, liDiniu (L. McGregor).

After being postponed on two or three occasions, tlieocean race of theP.N. Y.C. for this reason was finally disposed of last Saturday afternoon under pleasant conditions. Certainly the wind at tho commencement was anything but good, but at* the afternoon progressed it increased to n nice full sail nor'-westerly. Taipa-re got away with'the gun, the Waitangi being next, with Janet and Lizzie a little later. At Jurmingham Taipare kept her load, but Janet and Lizzie soon overhauled Waitangi. Here the first of the nor’-wester was encountered, but it soon crave place to a sou’-easter, .which lasted until Taipare, Janet and Lizzie had reached the Eastern shore. When abreast of Halsucii both Janet and | Lizzie passed tho Taipare. Waitangi was becalmed when near Halswell buoy, and lost a good bit of ground, while the other boats kept tho wind. When off , Mahanga Bay the nor’-westerly came along and Waitangi gained a point, she nearly getting abreast of her opponents before the westerly filled their sails. The big boat was at a disadvantage through having cruising sails. The three smaller boats set spinnakers on the run from tho entrance to the mark boat, and soon made a big gap between themselves and Waitangi. Janet reached the mark boat first, she sailing round’it at 4hr 4Srain. Lizzie was next at 4hr 56min, and Taiparo two minutes later. Waitangi rounded at shr Smin. Aften* rounding the mark Janet increased her lead from the other boats, while Taipare did not lose much from Lizzie, both boats adopting practically the same tactics on the beat up the entrance Janet finished at 7hr 24min, or 241 minutes ahead of Lizzie, whose finishing time was 7hr 48rain 30 sec. 4 Taipare finished 81 minutes after Lizzie. Janet, although she was conceding the two other boats 15nun and 20min handicap respectively, won the race by a substantial margin. MODEL YACHTING. On Saturday last tho Kilbimie Model Yacht Club managed to get off tho race® postponed from regatta day. The wind, which wns south -nt the commencement of the races, veered round to north in. the middle of the race, with the result that tho majority of the models turned back. Eight boats started in the general handicap, ami three in the- consolation handicap. One feature of tho day was the meeting of the two cracks. Flirt and Champion, the Flirt again proving herself the better boat, but in a private -race between the two afterwards the Champion won easily. . In tho general handicap a slight mishap occurred to the Waitangi’© gaff.jaws, and probably spoiled her chance in the race. Also in the consolation* handicap she jibed when in th?- middle of tho bay and came in to the starting point; but she was immediately cent over the course again, arriving home second 22 minutes behind the Falcon. Results:—

General Handicap Race.—Z?l (E. Pal--mcr), Imin, 21min,l: Flirt (J. Nixon), scr, 23niin, 2: Waitangi (IC. Mitchell), 4min. 28min, 3. Also started —Herald, Falcon, Champion, and Vigilant. The Zel went ahead at the start, and the Flirt was tho only boat to trouble her. Consolation Handicap Race.—Falcon fS. Jouas), serp, 28min, 1; Waitangi (K. Mitchell), scr Herald (V. Carty). Smin, 731 min, 3.

Tho Waitangi is having her ’ mast shortened and a new mainsail fitted bn.

The schooner Falcon amply repaid her owner (S. Jones) bv winning the consolation handicao on .Saturday. She has now challenged the Waitangi for a race on Easter Monday. The windward race will be sailed on April 2nd. if the wind is a northerly, and a good many entries are expected. The model yacht Zel has started in three races so far, and has won one and got two seconds. The Champion, , it is said, has nearly reached the end of her reign of triumph, as the Flirt and Nohumy (lata , Ngaira) are both expected to beat her.j The dub wishes to thank all those peo4 pie who helped to make the regatta a success. THE SATOICAEA CUP. the cable during tho week has told ns the 7*f’.nilt of the mooting between thoi Sydney cutter Culwalla 111, the challenger for the Savon or a Cup, and the Melbourne cutter 'Sayonarn, which onca f! bgaiu defended'the trophy. W© are* however, somewhat in- doubt as to which l yacht has been successful. The position is a somewhat curious one. Say.ounra 1 was designed by Fife, but was not built to the new' International rule. Measured under it she comes out at about 12 metres. Culwalla ITT. which nl?o Mrs from the; board of the famous Scottish} designer, was tjio first boat built in Australasia in conformity with tho new rules of measurement. She is a 10-metres boat, and has been extraordinarily successful having frequent!v defeated tho New Zealand built Fawhiti. a former challenger for tho Cup On her, present cruise to Melbourne she first visited Hobart. where she won the 100 miles race and ’first-cla** vacht race. In the C”> races Mr Mark's racer was beaten by ; Sayonara in. tho first and third event.

Imt rather easily won the second heat without anv allowance. The point which has arisen concerns the time allowance and this may. and probably will, a fleet the result of the first race, Jf the cantost is a tiiufc-by-rating one, as it should be, then CuhvMla. saved Ikm* allowmce in the first heat, and therefore tatts the trophy. The Victorians think, however, that there should be no allowance, which seems decidedly unfair to the smaller yacht. The contest really follows closely on the lines of the America Cap races, in which an allowance is given to the smaller competitor. It is quite tiosmblc, that the question may be submit ted to the Y.R.A. for an cxpies.-con of opinion on the matter. The curious thin" about the series of matches is the unaccountable reversal of form, so to sneak, ot tho boats. In the first event Savonara finished a long way ahead, and this distance she increased considerably in the final heat, yet at the second meeting Culwalla led from start Vo finish. It i looks as though she wore not too well handled, or olse mot with some accident- during the contest.