Beere wins yachting

Press, 3 February 1986, Page 29

Beere wins yachting

Bill Beere, of the Christchurch Yacht Club, caused a minor upset to win the third race of the five-race Canterbury Zephyr Yachting Championship Series, sailed in fickle winds on the Estuary on Saturday. Sailing Echo, Beere took control of the race on the first windward-leeward leg from the fancied pair of Paul Stemmer, in Gamble, and the national Zephyr titleholder, John Morrison, in Victoria, who worked his way through the fleet after a bad start. Beere handled the conditions admirably to win by 2*4 .minutes from Stemmer,-with

Morrison a further 38s back in third place who had to fight grimly to hold out the fast finishing Jim Park in Pooh Stick. Abbreviations used in the results are.— Christchurch Yacht Club (C.Y.C.); Mount Pleasant Yacht Club (M.P.Y.C.); Pleasant Point Yacht Club (P.P.Y.C.). Result.—B. Beere, Echo (C.Y.C.), 1; P. Stemmer, Gamble (C.Y.C.), 2; J. Morrison, Victoria (C.Y.C.), 3; J. Park, Pooh Stick (C.Y.C.), 4; M. Hay, Muscatel (P.P.Y.C.), 5; S. Hines, Zippy (C.Y.C.), 6; A. Reynolds, Spartan . (M.P.Y.C.), 7. - -