Personalities Afloat

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 384, 19 June 1928, Page 14

Personalities Afloat

MR. B. VAUGHAN, Handicap per* Manukau Yacht Club. Mr. W. B. Vaughan, whom the Manukau Yacht and Motor-boat Club honoured last evening with a life-mem-bership, is one of the most popular and efficient yachting club officials in Auckland. For 12 years he has been handicapper, timekeeper and starter for his club. It is a testimony to his ability te judge a boat and its crew, and to h i s impartiality, that in the past two seasons nearly 60 races have beer handled without a single protest. Experience gained bj' actual racing on the Manukau no doubt trained Mr. Vaughan for the exercise of the more onerous duties of handicapper. He has been a member of the club for 20 years, and during the first seven or eight of these was a keen competitor ir racing events, as well as a loyal worker in all the social activities of yachting clubs. For the last six years Mr. Vaughan has been the Manukau Club's representative on the Auckland Anniversary Regatta Committee. In acknowledging’, last evening, the thanks of the club, as expressed by conferring life membership on him, Mr. Vaughan said that he was honoured in being associated with the club, the members of which were fine sportsmen and were doing their utmost to. promote a superb sport and recreation; not only on their own harbour, but by competing in Dominion competitions like those held for the Takapuna class. Mr. Vaughan was a devotee of the open boats and took the 16-footer Redwing to the Manukau in 1908, he was winner in the first three events he entered for; thereafter the handicappers had their eye on him.