PINAFORE v. DREAM.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 674, 29 December 1882, Page 2

PINAFORE v. DREAM.

To the Editor. Sir,—Since the event—it can't be ? a Wfl a race—of the .18th instant, when the accident to the Pinafore's the Dream had a walk over the course, Toss will has been twice challenged i>y\ I word of mouth, and once l>y advertisement. \ I He lias declined ail threechalleng.es with- j-1 out reason assigned. In your last issue, } however, he offers to race provided he gets choice of weather, which is a confession that the Pinafore is a better all round boat. The Dream is larger and more heavily built, and therefore letter adapted £qj. heavy weather. In pitting Pinafrore against Dream? I aelf no concessions, toifc simply say that I am ready ait any tiinK o meet Mr ToseVill, provided he will a day not less than a week ahead, i.e.,J£O far ahead that the weather cannoee forecast. Eegarding Mr Tosewill's letrer, I must take exception to hia statement that " the two boats have really never met and sailed together yet." I have been under the impression that they met at the last two Regattas. That they " sailed together," however, one can't go on to say, inasmuch, as from start to finish in each case the Dream fell behind, and in both regattas came in half-at-mile aetajn. Speaking next of chance meetings bet\«n the two boats, Mr Tosswill says the DrSffn ' has on al! such occasions gone Allowing that such has been casejpt remains to be explained that f.ri% • Pinafore >, at such times has not been in racing trim, and as a rule baa merely been in charge of amateurs. Enough, however, of shelter behind amateurs, or confessions of*| having been out-general led in regard to Btanding too far into thi« or that bay. _ Let J the boats have it out, and this rests in Mr M Tosswill's hands. He allowed twelvee months to pass by after the Dream'e b<|flfl beaten in the Regatta of ' 81, and (■■ when lie did challenge the event fiasco. Hβ declined to accept three die-J tinct and separate challenges.—Yourl» etc., W.H.HBNNINGT "