YACHTING ROBERTS IS FAVOURITE
Olympic Finn Trials (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 16. The world-ranking yachtsman, R. H. Roberts, who on Sunday finished 14 days of exhausting sailing in the Flying Dutchman trials at Brown’s Bay, will begin another fortnight of hard sailing in the Olympic Finn trials at Napier on Saturday. Four years ago, with G. Smale, he was second in the Flying Dutchman trials and first in the Finn trials. At Brown’s Bay he was again second in the Dutchman trials. Roberts must be favoured to score a repeat win in the Finn trials. He was sixth in the Rome Olympics, sixth in the world gold cup series in Holland last year, and has been national champion every year but one since 1959. Robert’s toughest opponent will be the 1956 Olympic Sharpie class gold medallist, P. Mander, of Christchurch, the South Island champion. Rivalling Roberts and Mander are N. I. Everett, C. A. Roberts, D. E. Newell, and P. W. Letcher, all of Auckland, and the dedicated 18-year-old Canterbury yachtsman, B. G. de Thiers. • All skippers will sail in their own boats for seven heats; the top seven men will then decide the contest in a change-boat series of seven more races.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30469, 17 June 1964, Page 18
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