NEW ZEALAND PASTIMES.—YACHTING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 19, 7 May 1892, Page 472

NEW ZEALAND PASTIMES.—YACHTING.

(SEE front page.) As insular people we love the sea, and our sports and pastimes are greatly those of the maritime order. What sleighing is to the Canadians, and trotting to the Yanks, yachting in our more genial clime is to us, and than this what more graceful, what more healthy exercise can be imagined ? To the mind wearied with the week and distraught with business cares, yachting possesses a peculiar charm, and the Saturday afternoon throughout the summer is looked forward to with an interest amounting almost to a yearning. With a wind on the quarter, nothing is left to be desired, for the well-fitted demijohn and concertina have been carefully placed on board. To anchor at night and sing until late, to rise for an early swim, and to cruise again after a hearty breakfast of baked fish and store provisions are among the pleasures of yachting which only the joy of returning to town in time for church coming out transcends.