AQUATICS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19139, 24 October 1927, Page 13

AQUATICS.

POWER BOAT AND SAILING CLUB The Christchureh Power Boat and Sailing Club opened its season in fine weather on Sati urday afternoon. i Commodore J. D. McColl introduced Mr J. K. Archer, Mayor of Christchureh, and Mr W. H. Nicholson, Mayor ef Sumner. Mr Archer said, he hoped that Mr W. H. Nicholson, the Mayor of Sumner, would soon be restored to health. • Colonel Bobday, who was absent on account of sickness, desired aim to congratulate "the club on its growth, and to urge them to establish safeguards against accidents. Their president also ■wanted Sim to say that tho improving of the bar needed keeping in wind. He himself expected that Ohristchuroh w«uld be mare interested in this matter when the estuary was included in Greater Christchureh. He was pleased to congratulate Mr G. Andrews upon winning the Sanders Cap, and hoped he would do so again. During the afternoon the official party was received at the jetty by Commodore J. P. McCol), after a cruise over the course in the motor-boat Pacific Tbe weather was fine, changing from a boisterous nor'-wester to a dead calm, and then to a light easterly. A feature of the afternoon was the exhibition of "outboard" motor-boat speed tests. Two of these of the "Caille" design, owned bv Messrs Doig and Andrews, were light oneman craft, with their motors overhanging the stern. Driven from a vertical shaft, these threw up a fountain of water, and, lifting the light bows out of the water ( gave a :remarkable turn of speed with" a crow of |one. , A very amusing "Darktown brigade played all sorts of pranks on the water, and ft. Brown, G. Allen, and li. Griffen. were bracketed as winners.