A native tradition, the breaking oi a coconut over the bows of a vessel, was carried out at Sea. View, Isle of "Wight, recently, when hundreds of holidaymakers watched the launching of a proa, a South Sea Island out ■ rigger canoe. Patsy Acland, the six-year-old daughter of Sir William Aeland, the owner of the proa, which is believed the only one on the British coast, _ broke the coconut over the bows as "the canoe left' the slipway.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 128, 13 March 1939, Page 5
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