YACHTING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume V, Issue 227, 29 November 1894, Page 9

YACHTING.

The Bailey Bros, are getting along well with the 2|-rater, and they expect to launch her on Saturday. Captain Butts, of Wellington, who piloted the Rona down to that city, is now in town waiting for Mr R. Logan to finish the 10-rater, in which yacht he will again make the trip south. She will shortly be ready for launching, but it will be several weeks.before she leaves.here. Mr Dunning’s?new: purchase, the Gloriana, has apparently lost none of her old speed. She had considerably the best of a spin up the harbour with the Yum Yum oil Saturday afternoon. . The'Judge’s Bay people have postponed their carnival until about a week before the Auckland Regatta.

At a meeting on Wednesday evening last the Yacht Club, on the motion of Mr Wiseman, passed the following resolution: “ That the standard class for racing be five tons and under, two aud a-half and under, one and under, the prize money to be fixed annually.” It was decided that the prizes should be £7 for the 5-raters, £5 for the 2J raters, and £3 for the 1-raters, and a second prize to be provided in each class out of the entrance fees. The three races are to be run on the first Saturday in February, which will be a far better date than previous ones, as the yachts will all be in good trim aft er the big regatta and the owners in a better racing mood. The last races were held in the middle of the cruising season, and many of the yachting men would not go to the trouble of getting their boats ready. Very few yachts were in the harbour on Saturday. Many of them went for a cruise outside, but the athletic sports were the cause of others laying at their .moorings. Mr C. Bailey launched the 4-rater, which he has been building at the Shore, on Tuesday night, and she was taken over to town to have her lead keel moulded and to get a few finishing touches. F. Jervis, of the Viking crew, received rather rough usage from one of the ostriches at Home Bay on Sunday. He was knocked down and kicked by one of these “ playful ” creatures, his shoulder, which was dislocated last football season, being again injured. The meeting of the Regatta Committee which was to have been held on Monday night had to be postponed, owing to the small attendance. The prospects of a successful regatta this season do not look very healthy at present.