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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 800, 22 October 1929, Page 14

NEWS FROM THE MANUKAU Subject to the confirmation by the "Yacht and Motor-Boat Association, the Manukau season will open on November 23, with combined racing by the boats of the two clubs. Miss Mac, a beamy 20-footer, is being made ready for the opening day. Aoma i hantpagne, with a new deck canvas, and Myra, are well ir. hand. Waiter© 11. is expected to be ready for l.ibour Day. Elsie is still “asleep.” Mr. J. Sibbins has decided to fix up Mavis, which went ashore some time ago in a high wind. The Manukau Yacht Club has a new up for the 18ft classes, and is to look after the outboard championship as well. The Cruising Club had this event last season, but was not able to get boats to enter in numbers to make the championship worth while. The Cruising Club will have a cup for model yacht racing, given by a woman supporter. The boys already have a points cup, but a flag is now to go with it. Messrs. Herbert and Young, of the Manukau Yacht Club, and Messrs. Davies and Sibbin, of the Cruising Club, form the new committee that lias to supervise mooring sites, by rrungement with the Harbour Board: rliat is, in the protected area. Some i.i the boatmen are in hopes that the Borough Council will go on with the chenie to put a roadway over the ntrance to the Basin. This is expected to open the way for a boat harbour in the Basin. * * * Among the launches, Ramona is Finished, and Norma, Dione, Cremorne tul Wanderer are approaching the inished stage. Grace has had a lot .£ attention, and Tawera has been fitted with a motor-car engine. The new 18ft. Drone was doing a turn of the harbour this week-end. Rainbow has had extra deadwood added and her owners are well satisfied with her appearance in the water. Regal is to be vice-commodore’s boat for the Yacht Club. Karma has been sold, but remains on the Manukau. After Christmas Pal o’ Mine is to ronio to Auckland for a new owner. The Waitemata will also see Waiapu, Salome. Hetty and Valdora, with probably Maidil and Senorita in addition to Valdora. This is something of a record for transfer of boats from the west to the east harbour. NEW 14-FOOTER A new 14ft. square bilge yacht, built by Mr. A. D. Eaton and a friend at the former’s home, Devonport, was launched on Saturday. The boat does its young builders great credit. She will be named Rahiri 11., after the 22footer Rahirl, which Mr. Eaton sailed alone to Whangarei last Christmas and sold. While there he procured Sea Dawn, with which he has won many prizes, including the Whangarei championship Hag. She will bo a welcome addition to the fleet. WITH THE OUTBOARDS It is said in outboard circles that a driver cannot fully claim to be “one of us” until he lias been flung out of his speeder. East week-end two new men were baptised in Judge’s Bay. Mr. W. P. Neal, owner of the fine boat Miss Marquette, was trying out a new hull called Miss Olds, a 13ft Palmer-built hydroplane. He turned too sharply. A little later Mr. Eric Butler, who also has a Palmer hull, set off In Miss Olds, and repeated the performance, much to the delight t>f a crowd of onlookers. There was nothing wrong with the boat, but the accidents were just the result of a queer coincidence.

A number of outboards were buzzing about the harbour during the week-end. Besides Messrs. Neal and Butler, there were Mr. L. Palmer in Miss Akarana; Mr. A. R. Townsend in Miss Arawa II.: and Mr. W. Allen, commodore of the Point Chevalier Sailing Club, in a new boat as yet unnamed. No startling speeds have yet been attained, because all the motors are too new for a real try-out. Mr. N. Souter, of Cambridge, has bought one of Mr. L. Stericker’s Hum Bugs, to be fitted with a C class motor.