N.Z. yacht third
NZPA staff correspondent Fremantle New Zealand's Chris Dickson, the boy wonder of . the world 12-metre championships, jumped on the French boots and all and came within an ace of stealing second place behind Australia 111 in the fifth heat of the series at Fremantle yesterday. In a thrilling, biting, dicing finish, Dickson and his men on KZS slugged it out with Marc Pajot, one of the heavyweights of world sailing, and almost pulled off another match-racing duel. But the Frenchman held on
to the finish and kept the New Zealander out at the gun, by just 34 seconds. Australia Ill’s victory put her into a clear lead on the championship table with II points, 6.1 clear of KZS, which still holds second. While the Australians must take full credit for getting to the front and staying there, the performance that caught the attention was that of KZS. Also forcing themselves back into the reckoning was the Canadian True North which is getting its act together and finished fourth, while Australia II was fifth, America II sixth, and KZ3 back in eleventh.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19860214.2.53
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, 14 February 1986, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
184N.Z. yacht third Press, 14 February 1986, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in