BETTY’S SKIPPER TALKS ON SANDERS CUP RACES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 306, 17 March 1928, Page 14

BETTY’S SKIPPER TALKS ON SANDERS CUP RACES

QUESTION OF FUTURE BOAB “The contest, from the point of view of a gathering of yachtsmen, vu easily the best I have yet participated in, but as regards sailing, was unsatiffactory. The winds from the start wen very fluky and luck had a great deal t« do with wins.” In these two sentences, Mr. G. C Andrews, skipper and owner of Betty, thrice winner of the Sanders Cup fo: Canterbury, in a chat with “Bobst&y." of the Christchurch “Sun,” summed w the last contest, sailed at Pateraoni , Inlet, Stewart Island. He thought that this year’s contest had done more for yachting in New Zealand than any held previously. Tb« yachtsmen were brought together «t Stewart Island, and were not scattered all over the place. This fact had helped greatly the social side of th* gathering. Regarding the suggestion that wai brought up at the conference of delegates that a fund be started for tke building of six new 14-footers by ow builder, Betty’s builder said: T* theorv, the scheme seems quite good and I think it is what is wanted, wt if it ever eventuated there would w all sorts of difficulties. The quesuoi would arise: Who is going to look : the boats? This would cause dm | feeling between the clubs of each proj vince. Then there is the selecting a crew" for the bDat. j a number of races would have to w j sailed before the best crew was select* i and this would need other boats. ‘ , don’t think the scheme will to anything.” He said that the SoutEland yachtsmen were greatly in law* of the suggestion, Mr. Andrews supports heartily I j suggestion that all the specificate* » governing the building of boats for j j contest be revised. Every builder. : said, had different ideas of ww with the result that every boat turn* out was different. Of the boats j took part in the contest, not t i them were alike. He thought .. builder from each province__ __ confer and revise the specifics t* The weight of boats should am taken into consideration, he sai . a minimum should be placed 0 weight of boats. This would go*** way toward making all the boats same. , . oA wg When asked whether there nafl . any suggestion as to which ass should run the next contest, * ’ rews said that it had been s gg that the next contest be sau , , Napier, but this had not receiV -tertian support. “I think that the CoJjJJ association should run the con year,” he said, “and at the ac tunity I get I am going to Ar w the races be sailed on Akaroa Akaroa, in my opinion, wouM ideal spot, and should bring 1 sailing men together. „ Tms ’ mind, is what is wanted. In conclusion, Mr. Andrews he was quite serious when B neither he nor his boat sayiof part in the next contest. 1 jso now,” said Mr. Andrew , those who have the managing the contest will kni ! they stand. lam quite emphat* that. I have had my whack. otbe : it is onlv fair that some oim fellows should have a chaj J c^; herg wiß that by pulling my boat out: crea te ) be induced to build, and thus more interest In the conte