Why Fiji’S Yacht Was Failure
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At Auckland
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Feb. 20
REPORTING recently to the Suva Yacht Club on the failure of O- Vuka in the eighteen-footer world championship races at Auckland this month, were the boat’s designer, builder and skipper (Mr. A. Bentley) and her crew’s manager (Mr. R. Genge).
They said that in finish and workman ship the O-Vuka had no superior on the Waitemata, and some of Auckland’s lead ing boatbuilders gave her unstinted praise. But in sailing the O-Vuka was no match for the transom-bowed New Zealand boats, which were built as straight-out racing shells and not as racing-cum-cruising yachts. Neither could O-Vuka’s sails compare with the English-made sails of the leading New Zealand competitors.