WIND IN THE SOLENT.
KING GEORGE IN DING-DONG RACE. DEAD-HEAT WITH CRACK SCHOONER. (Received Friday, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. At Cowes, the King, wearing bright yellow oilskins, boarded his yacht Britannia and raced in the Solent against the Candida and Westward and after a ding-dong battle the Royal yacht dead-heated with Davis’s schooner Westward. The latter started so badly that she lost 5 minutes 39 seconds to the Britannia at the end of the first round, but she recovered brilliantly. A dead-heat is very rare in a long race over a forty mile cousre tn a hard breeze and driving rain. The general opinion is that the King was plucky to sail on such a day.
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Wairarapa Age, 30 July 1932, Page 5
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