YACHTSMEN'S ORDEAL.
BECALMED AND BUFFETED.
MAN KNOCKED OVERBOARD
WINDWARD MAKES CHATHAM
ISLAND,
(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.") WELLINGTON, this clay. In a special wireless message to "The Post," Mr. T. P. Rollings, skipper of the Wellington yacht, Windward, which left Wellington on Christmas morning for Chatham Island, states that the boat arrived at Waitangi at 3.30 p.m. yesterday, after being at sea for seven days six hours. She was becalmed one day off Cape Palliscr, and for one and a-half days in mid-ocean. On Tuesday night the"yacht was haveto in a southerly gale for twelve hours. and, on Wednesday, heavy seas carried away the 'main sheet and topping lifts, freeing the main boom, which broke loose and carried a man overboard. He was promptly rescued, however} and the boat was again hove-to, this time for three hours, while repairs were effected. All on board arc well and happyi The cicw of the Windward comprises Messrs. T. P. Rollings, Colin Steele, Don Graham and A. H. Irwin. The Windward is the smallest yacht that has yet made the trip from .Wellington to" the Chathams.
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Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 8
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182YACHTSMEN'S ORDEAL. Auckland Star, 2 January 1931, Page 8
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