AUCKLAND AGAIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 14

AUCKLAND AGAIN

WIN IN SECOND RACE FOR CORNWELL CUP INITIATIVE AND ABILITY Press Association DUNEDIN, Wednesday. Th» Auckland crew, the Tabuteau brothers, scored a runaway win in the second race for the Cornwell Cup, sailed here yesterday. In defeating Lyttelton by 5 nun 50sec the boys sailed a masterly race, fully deserving their victory. Auckland has now registered its second win in the 1930 series. After the first round the race was a procession. The Auckland lads showed more initiative and ability to secure the best out of thetr boat. Wellington and Lyttelton also gave good exhibitions, and the Otago crew did much to atone for its lapse on Tuesday. At one stage Otago was pressing Auckland hard. The local boys still appear to experience difficulty while on the wind, but their display today was a very great improvement on the first day’s exhibition. Had it not been for a mistake while rounding one of the marks, they would in all probability have finished in a better position. AUCKLAND FIRST AWAY The course was a triangular one, sailed twice round, a distance of about nine miles. At the gun, Auckland led across by two seconds, Lyttelton, Christchurch, Otago, Wellington and Manukau following in that order. Running down the training wall Auckland forged ahead, the Christchurch boat, which experienced trouble with its spinnaker being passed by Otago, which took up a good position on Lyttelton’s windward quarter. During the run down to the Vauxhall buoy Otago gradually improved its position, rounding the buoy a few seconds astern of Auckland. while Lyttelton, Wellington Christchurch and Manukau followed at regular intervals. OTAGO BATTLES WELL In the lead across to the Kitchener Street mark. Auckland and Otagc battled together, first one and then the other taking the lead. Auckland 1 ounded the mark a few seconds ahead of Otago. Lyttelton followed about half a minute behind, then came Wellington, Christchurch and Manukau. On the beat to the Castle beacon Wellington. after a short board toward Victoria Wharf, stood away on a long leg toward Vauxhall, taking advantage of smoother water. The remainder of the fleet, however, contented themselves with short boards in the main channel, winch, as the ebb tide had not yet begun to run strongly, did not gain them much advantage. On the lead past the three legs at the end of the channel wall, Auckland weathered Wellington, the latter standing across from Vafixhall on a starboard tack. Lyttelton, sailing better on the wind than Otago, overhauled the local crew near the end of s and - ln the last les toward the Castle beacon, kept a good position.

Wellington’s manoeuvre in standing across to the other side of the harbour here showed its value, as the boat shot into second place behind Auckland and rounded the beacon lmin 45sec after the leader. BEATEN AT TURN At the beacon Otago was in third place, but for some reason the Otago skipper chose to sail wide at the turn and Lyttelton, seizing the opportunity, shot close in and beat Otago to the turn by four seconds. Canterbury turned 56 seconds afterward, ahead of Manukau. The run down to the Vauxhall buoy then became a procession. Auckland sailed very fast and opened up a big lead on the rest of the fleet, which was led by Wellington, with Lyttelton and Otago some distance farther astern. Auckland beat Wellington round the Vauxhall buoy by 2min 47sec, Lyttelton being 52sec behind the second boat. Then came Otago, a few seconds behind, followed by Christchurch and Manukau at intervals of about a minute. In the lead across to the Kitchener Street Wharf the Auckland skipper gave the rest of the fleet an object lesson in sailing free, and it became obvious that none of the other craft could catch him unless a mishap occurred. The wind held very steadv and, with the ebb tide gaining in strength, the Auckland boat gave a very fine exhibition of sailing on the wind and working the tide to its full advantage. LONG LEAD INCREASED Most of the other boats made the mistake of standing too far across toward Vauxhall in the beat home, thus losing the assistance of the tide, but the Auckland skipper made use of short boards in the main channel and steadily increased his already big lead. Lyttelton followed Auckland’s example and, as a result, passed Wellington and came into second place. Auckland secured a runaway victorv, crossing the line lhr 13min 2osec after the commencement of the race, and smin 50sec before the Lyttelton boat, who beat Wellington by 36see for second place. Otago was close behind, fourth, 26sec after Wellington, while Manukau and Christchurch arrived home in that order about three minutes afterward A strong south-westerlv wind which sprang up early in the afternoon, combined with the flood tide, produced such an unpleasant state of affairs on the harbour that it was decided to postpone the third race until tomorrow morning.