YACHTING.
\ THE SAYONARA CUP. United Press Association — By Electrio Telegraph— Copyright. (Received January 18, 9.20 a.m.) .MELBOURNE, January 17. It is doubtful if Heather will compete in the deciding heat of La Carabine Cup, as she has been dismantled. Th© first race for the Sayonara. Oup will be sailed to-day. Sayonara has been restored to her old Sydney trim, and will now have to concede Rawhiti 55sec instead of 24sec. (Rawhiti will sail Sayonara, the latter holding the oup whioh was won from Bona off Sydney Heads two or three years ago. The first course is ten milee to windward and back, and the second a twenty miles triangular, course. If a third test is found necessary;, it will be like the first, over ten. miles to , windward, and will take place on January? 21. One of the conditions imposed upon a challenger is that she should sail round to the place of the racing, . and this Rawhiti has done. Heather was carried by steamer, as the conditions for La Carabine Cup allow of this. Rawhiti has a confident following, and is expected to " lift " the Sayonara Cup, although the Victorian. Yacht Club will b© well represented.) , t
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8831, 18 January 1907, Page 2
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