Dramatic yachting win for N.Z.
NZPA staff correspondent Fremantle New Zealand, the new boys, battled like veterans to take out a dramatic first race i of the World 12-metre Championships off Fremantle yesterday. New Zealand 11, known to all and sundry as KZS, led from the start, but for the final four legs she had to fight with the boat from the New York Yacht • Club, ' America 11, in a match race that would have done credit to a full-blown America’s Cup. It was the dream campaign start New Zealand wanted. It was a psychological boost the whole camp needed, and it has proven to the money men behind the challenge that New Zealand is on the right course. KZS, skippered by Chris Dickson, who is one of the youngest skippers in the fleet, got the best of the start, and never looked back. However, after opening up a huge lead after completing the triangular section of the course, they saw the Americans begin to whittle it away
over the fourth leg, Md. in ■ ithe Closing stages had to pull - out every stop to hokf the Americans out. • v - !f; For the- other half of the • ■ New Zealand challenge,' New r s Zealand I or KZ3, the race was a battle of a different sort—to prove herself to be i(i really equal to her identical ~ twin up front. KZ3, skippered by Graeme<. Wqodroffe, finished a provi- “ sionai eleventh with 1 protest flag flying, but clearly: in this' s race at .least was not in the , same league as the victor. ; However, through the "ef< w forts of KZS, the day still - belonged to New Zealand,' : with the 24.1 nautical ihile- ‘ race completed in trying conditions with winds ranging: ta from 14-20 knots. swinging -to from the west to the south- ;: b west, and in seas that were at :>; - times so choppy the boats were plunging through the * waves rather than over them. '■.4l New Zealand survived its ?, i baptism of fire to score by.-, just 18 seconds, from - America 11, with the veteran;..:. Australia II third ahead of ' her newer sister ship Aus- > tralia 111 and Italia. - t J
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