SMALL YACHT CAPSIZES.
BAYSWATER BOYS RESCUED. The 12ft 6in Takapuna class yacht Ripple, which was being sailed by two Bayswater boys, capsized in a squall about 200 yds off the end of the Bayswater wharf, shortly after 6 o'clock last evening. The yacht floated bottom up, and one of the boye clung to the sail and the other to the hull. Another lad put off in a small dinghy, and, with the assistance of the two members of the crew, he made a line fast to the capsized craft. He tried to tow her towards the wharf, but the sea was too rough and he ma-de no headway. A yachtsman, Mr. R. Lidgard, who had just arrived by the ferry boat, went out in his dinghy and took off the boy who was clinging to the yacht. Meanwhile the boy in the other dinghy rescued the other lad. Mr. Lidgard later brought the Ripple alongside the boat steps and righted her.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 290, 8 December 1931, Page 3
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