YACHTING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20331, 14 June 1934, Page 17

YACHTING.

Championship for EighteenFooters. The New Zealand Yachting Council’s proposal that an open championship for 18-footer® be Instituted found favour with delegates to the Canterbury Bailing and Power Boat Association at their meeting last evening. Air H. W. Harris, who presided, said he understood that three iS-footers were under construction in Canterbury. All were being built to the M class design sponsored some time ago by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, Auckland. Such a boat, said A3r Harris, could be built easily by an amateur and the moulds and patterns would be available to any intending builder. A boat-builder could build such a boat, ready for fhe water, for £75. Alembers agreed that at present an impetus to the class could most readily be given by yachtsmen proceeding privately with the building of 38-footers. It was decided to support, the council’s proposal. A letter from the Wellington Associa -, tion suggested that Canterburv consider further the question of paying the Auckland Association for the plans and moulds for X-class boats which Auckland prepared in 1932. Such action, the letter stated, migh-t eventually lead to 1 the restoring of harmony between Auck-! land and the other associations. The letter was discussed in committee. In open meeting, the chairman reported that it had been decided to pay the amount due.

In connection with the Z-class champ ion ship, it was decided to send forward to the Dominion conference the following remits;—(a) That the rules be altered to permit of a deeper rudder; (b) that the rules be altered to provide for a Alarconi rig instead of a gunter

On Air G. R. Curtis’s motion it was decided to recommend to the clubs that they add races for the association’s trophies to their own programmes and, it possible, run them in conjunction with