SAILING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 257, 3 November 1906, Page 12

SAILING.

Tlie Ponsonby Cruising Club have arranged the following programme for the season: Opening day November 0, cruising races November 24, December 22, January 5. and February S; annual picnic Februaiy 2.i, harbour race Slareli 2. iifth cruising race March 23, final cruise April 20. The two and a-lialf rater Mahaki has been sold by Mr. CUlttfleld to Messrs. llorrocks and Laird. A 20ft mullet boat built by Mr. A. Tobin for Messrs. F. Adi-ane and Brody has been named the IJawhiti. Ale.ss.rs. Hammond and Wine's 24----footer has been christened .Use Kanio. She will be launched before the openingday. •Mr. J. Parker's new 24ft mullet boat, Seagull, will be launched to-day. The two and a-half rater Mizpah has been converted into an oil launch. Mr. Williams., of Whangarei, who intends travelling round the world in a barrel-shaped boat, has becxrane a member of the North Shore Yacht Club. aind has been presented -with a club (lag by the Commodore. Mr. Williams expect? to arrive in Auckland in his novel craft on Ihe Sth or 9th inst. Siic will be exhibited here and then proceed to Wellington and Lyttelton, and will be taken up to Chriatctauri-h fov the KxhibicJon. 1 n consequence, of the disbandmeut for one year of the Home Bay Sailing Ciub, a slight disarrangement of the atTairs of the West End Association has taken |.!j( V| and tlie two remaining clubs have arranged their own programmes. The dirticulty is. however, only a temporary one. and it i> intended to keep the Associal ion i:i existence. Over SO members attended the general jM'cii.ig of the North Shore Yachl Club this week. The. Commodore (Mr. \V. A. Wilkinson) presented MO club flags to the yacht owners of the flub, and regretted that the thigmaker had '."'en timi-ble to sret any move finished in time for tiiis meeting: the remainder will be distributed on or before the Utl) November, opening 'lay. Twenty-seven new members were elected, which makes i. total of about eighty-five for this I season. Mr. J. Taylor, of Birkeniwad, I presented t-he club with a donation oi i £-2 2s towards the pri/.g furd. and (he ! secretary stated that lie had received a trophy from Me.-, rs. Jolni Burns and Co. The !).-\onport Yacht Club has arranged their classification of yuclus n., follows. The cash prizes are given iin brackets: —Class 1. yachts exceeding I :>Oft 1.w.1. (Ist prize £o, 2nd £1); (lass j 11.. yachts. 30ft 1.w.1. aad under i £~> and |£li; (lass 111., centre-board yachts exI cesdir.j- 22ft. o.a. and not exceeding 2"ift i o.tt. (£•) and £i ! ; Class LV.. centrei board yachts, 22ft r>.n. and tiud-r ' £:5 land !i), i : Class \.. keel ynchtrt not exceeding 20ft o.a. i t.2 10/ und JO/); Class VI.. open boats, 10ft and under (£2 and 10/;. I Among the numerous trophies to be ! competed for, there arc two yachts' i dingeys, each 8 or 0 feet lons, ulsn a cup i"o bn w.n outright in a ptneral handicap rac<\ presented by the commodore. The >i.c!it llainbow will be launched on Monday next. The Ngatira cruised to Station Bay (Waiheke) on Saturday last, and reI turned to her moorings on Sunday night. ■This is practically the iirs.t cruise of the i season. J The yachts Peri, Emerekl,T>re. Aorere, .lanet. Iris. \ anora, Moana. Mahaki and Mabel ■were launched during the week. The rendezvous of th ■ Devonport Yacht. ( iub's first cruising race on November 17 will be Awan.i Buy (Waiheke). A big field of boat:- is expected for this event, including 1 lie Moana. Rainbow, Ida, Tbe'-na and Ariki. The var'it Cyniscn is to he fitted with an nil engine. I The Anniversary Pv-Cgatta committee I has drawn up a preliminary programme. J which i.-. practically the Fame as last ! year, so :';>r as sailing races are concerned. Jt is proposed, to introduce rowing races this year.