AVALON AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 591, 18 February 1929, Page 13

AVALON AGAIN

FOURTH ed ition

*nj IN THIRD SANDERS * L CUP RACE j,OSE FINISH WiTH EILEEN (Special to THE SI -N ) AKAROA, To-day. riNISHING well the Auckland I boat Avalon won the: third Sanders Cup race by 50sec from £;leen this morning. Clyde was fishing times were: ...ton’ (Auckland) .. 12.11.10 in'KEN (Otago) •• 12.12.0 -t«)E (Wellington) .. 12.10.0 HI (South- i2i(j3() -oiXEEN (Southland) 12.10.35 Lre was a nice, fresh, southerly . with practically no sou for the ’ H Zanders Cup race this morning, -..skippers, however, were taking no ; rces with the weather and every f:. carried four men. .'ter finishing second to Clyde in Srst race on Friday morning, A\a ■ won the second contest the same •ernoon. . 'L course was a windward and ward one. At the starting- gun at /the boats got away no am exceln- Start. Clyde being the first to '' a the line. Eileen was next, then m 6 Colleen and Avalon, with Muriel the boats. except Murihiku were !t[ bunched together. Colleen was , only boat carrying a leading jib. five boats put over on the starjrd tack and hung close inshore so . t 0 get the wind down the gullies. When they crossed tacks the first Tie Eileen held the weather position rom Clyde, Avalon and Colleen, which '[•rtt all fairly even. Mmrihiku was ji a little to leeward. A series of ;. ort boards brought the boats to Foint. Muriliiku sailed farmer out into the harbour than the p.ers and was now in third place. lon was in the lead and Avalon vcond. The boats wefe all hanging aether well. The wind now freshened considerjiy and Colleen’s leader was taken On the rest of the beat up the .rbour the boats strung out a bit, ~1 Murihiku dropped back last. Kiln. still in the lead, made the buoy 15 oonds ahead of Avalon. The times v ere: — Kileen •• 11.2.45 Avalon 11.3.0 Clyde 11.5.30 I’oleen 11.6.0 Murihiku 11.6.20 Eileen's spinnaker was out in a ankling anti, catching a hard puff from the sea she planed along like a iro-glider. Murihiku had trouble th her spinnaker and lost quite a. lot .ground on the run back to the buoy ■1 the wharf. Eileen did not gain nything on Avalon and was still 15 conds ahead. Times and placing ne first time round were:

Eileen 11.20.0 Auloa 11.20.15 Coleen 11.23.5 Murihiku 1L54.20 At this stage there seemed tc be tiling in the race but Avalon and E;icen» unci these boats were having a img-dong fight. Kellett was sailing -reat race and so was Willetts, the ng Auckland skipper. Tack for tack the two boats went (“run the beat up the harbour and at ''■* n Point the two were practically Coleen. Clyde and Muriku were well behind, with but little -stance between them. Murihiku was sailing well and made a lot of leeway on the other boats. >x>n a fter this Avalon gained the gather position on Eileen and made e buoy 30 seconds ahead of the Otago The times were:

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