YACHT RACE.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2146, 23 March 1870, Page 2

YACHT RACE.

A Yacht Eace took place to-day between six of the yachts of the Dunedin Club, for a prize of L 8 10s. There were seven entries, but one (the .Royal Alfred) did not put in an appearance. The following arc the names of the competing vessels, and the respective positions taken at the start: — Mr Haggitt’s Dauntless (Gibbs), 9 tons • 1 Mr Street’s Gipsey (Street), 9 tons - - 2 Mr Hay’s Torment (Patterson), 3 tons - 3 Mr Burke’s Champion (Chambers), 11

tons ------ 4 Mr Hay’s Spray (Hay), 9 tons ■ - 5 Mr Guthrie’s Anonyma (Green), 10 tons - 6 1 rain. 35 secs, time per ton was allowed. The race was announced to commence at 10.30 a.m., but a start was not effected till a quarter past 11. The course was from a flag-boat moored off the Pelichet Pay Jetty, round a buoy off the training wall; thence down the harbor to another buoy moored in the long channel, thrice round—a distance altogether of IS miles. On the starting gun being fired, the yachts cast off from the mooring buoys, and slowly moved towards the buoy off the' training wall, the Spray and Gipsey close together, the Dauntless, Anonyma, and Torment following some distance astern, the Champion last. This order was pretty well maintained for the first round, with the exception of the Champion and Torment, the former having gained some three minutes on the latter, and the Spray being a little ahead of the Gipsey in passing the jetty. At the conclusion of the second round an exciting race took place between the Spray and Gipsy, which yachts appeared to have the race almost entirely to themselves. In sailing up the harbor past the jetty the Spray obtained a slight lead ; but on rounding the buoy off the training wall, the Gipsy went to the front. Between the buoy and the jetty, however, the Spray caught up to the Gipsy, and both vessels passed the flag-boat side by side to commence the third round at 1.40; the other vessels a full quarter of an hour astern.

By the time the foremost vessels had half completed the final round, the wind, which had been blowing lightly from the S.W., up, and the Gipsy and Spray passed the jetty at a fine pace, the former having a slight lead, which she increased in rounding the buoy, and sailing past the flag-boat off the jetty, coming in a winner by about a minute before the Spray. Captain Guthrie acted as starter and judge.