YACHTING AUCKLAND’S WIN IN IDLEALONG CHAMPIONSHIP

Grey River Argus, 30 January 1948, Page 6

YACHTING AUCKLAND’S WIN IN IDLEALONG CHAMPIONSHIP

P.A. DUNEDIN, Jan. 29 Auckland’s Rekin sailed by D. Rodgers, won the Moffat Cup for the Idle Along Championship by challenging Wellington’s Cavalier (G. Gestro) in the sixth yace this afternoon, after Wellington was the winner on points after five races.

Sailing over the winward and leeward course, in the deciding race, Auckland, which won the fifth race sailed in the morning,, gained the winward position at the start of three rounds, and gradually drew away from Wellington to win convincingly by over six minutes. Auckland thus retains the Moffat Cup. When the fifth race in the series ended, Wellington had scored two wins, a third, and a fourth, against Auckland’s two wins and two fourths. Wellington led with 320.13 points from Auckland with 300 points, but Auckland exercised its prerogative of challenging Wellington to a final race, as it had beaten Wellington home in three of the five races sailed. Under contest conditions, the winner of this race is awarded the cup. « . KURREWA STILL LEADING SYDNEY, January 29. The Victorian ketch Kurrewa. radioed the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club this morning that at 6 a.m. she' was 480 miles west of the Three Kings. She was then running before the wind and rolling heavily with a moderate folio-wing sea.

The skipper states that weather reports picked up by radio have been helpful and very accurate.