Yachting.
The yacht loiangi in chaige ot C'apl;un "Dick" Butts, aimed at liei anchoiage oft the Thorndon Yacht Shed at 930 a.m. on Monda> after a passage of tuenty-tlnee days, no less than' six gales being encounteied in that time, but, being an admnah'e sea boat, came tlirough without a scratch or a bioken lope-yam She called in at Napier and Gisboine, as well as numeious ba\s, to leplemsli tlie laulei At Cast lepoint the baker had to be called on for a suppl\ oi biead winch \\ as soon toi thconimg, and she lett toi Wellington, ai riving as stated abo\e Mi
Tin n bull intends bending his Lapthoino lacing sails (which ha\e just arrived horn Kngland) at once, so we wdl have the pleasuie of seeing the lorangi flitting about tJie liarboui within a short space of tune Mi Oscai Fie-sbuig lias sold his yacht Mapu to Mi. Deck, dentist, of Nelson. She is a nice ciuiser, and Mr. Deck should get good fun out of the Mapu in Sleepy Hollow w aters. The thud-class ciack Mahaki, belonging to the Wiggins Brothcis, is up for sale Am \achtsinan wanting a icall> good little ciaft cannot do better than take this chance of secunug a smart little \essel.
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Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 69, 26 October 1901, Page 21
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208Yachting. Free Lance, Volume II, Issue 69, 26 October 1901, Page 21
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