IT TOOK WELLINGTON EIGHT YEARS

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 16

IT TOOK WELLINGTON EIGHT YEARS

(From. "N.Z. Truth's" Special Akaroa Representative.) When Clyde beat Avalon, Colleen, Muriliiku and Eileen m the first race for the .Sanders Cup at Akaroa, Wellington secured its first win for eight years m the sailing blue riband. ....... v-: WITH five heats completed Clyde tive, which scored a surprise but The fact that she is a light and Avalon were running neck none the less meritorious win m weather beat manned by a skipper and neck with two wins each m the Jellicoe class championship, whose 'skill lies principally m heavy hand. The pair . lined out m a des- was th© only-tub to- weather the. ' ■ '..i-.n,.. i,,. «, j „ a-u« ' i perate attempt to win a third- heat m trying conditions and she crossed weather has made no difference at the sixth start, .... but fate and fickle the finishing line on her own. a "; weather took a hand. • Akaroa proved a more trying course Avalon, manned by an experienced Gusty puffs ot wind blew with gale for this year's contest than was anticii crew has performed n'-irticulirlv wotl' force every now and then and tne two ,W tM i 1)V mji lm , •,■„«.„•• w h(l , P i,.,'., t fr/iooc I'erioi mea particuuuy well, boats witifa leg-in for the Sanders v^le wi^f^re^ecSr Akfcoa SwiS^^oX^-MSon-BrtS 1 C«P topptoj over alone, with- Colleen. provided everything :from calms to and again "hi, ? V&; TTpp'eS X and Murihilcu. • , gales . _ __ though the worst .R.' Willetts can do Eileen, the Dunedin representa- J } Y^l* real' test .of seanmanship with, her will be to act as runner-up. , and tactics and Clyde, the despised ' . .. . „ ...

boat of the party, came out with honors thick upon her crew. Colleen, the Canterbury representative,'has been consistent if nothing else with two thirds, a fourth and a fifth, but she has not shown enough 'speed to mark her down' us a Sanders Cup Champion. • ' IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIII