YACHT TEDDY SAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 56, 7 March 1932, Page 3

YACHT TEDDY SAILS.

DEPARTURE FOR QUEENSLAND DUE AT NORWAY IN" JUNE, 1933. Captain Erling Tambs, accompanied by Mrs. Tambs and family left on Saturday in their yacht Teddy for Queensland, in continuation of their voyage around the world. A number of yachts and motor boats accompanied the Teddy' down the harbour. A naval pinnace gave the yacht a pull out clear of the wharves, where she felt the light southerly and progressed slowly till off Devonport, when Mr. E. J. Kelly's motor yacht Linda passed a line aboard and towed her clear of Kangitoto. The Teddy arrived from Norway in January, 1931. She competed in the trans-Tasman race in March, and won the cup offered by the Akarana Club. Teddy sailed back to Auckland, and the boat was hauled out on the Devonpor 4 - Yacht Club's slip, where she underwent a thorough overhaul, Captain Tambs being assisted by local yachtsmen. A trip to Tahiti was made in November, the yacht arriving back just in time to start in the annual race from Auckland to Tauranga. Captain Tambs fully expected that there would be a eecond race for the trans-Tasman Cup, but this did not eventuate. The Teddy will stay some time at Brisbane. After leaving there ehe will go north of Australia, across the Indian Ocean, and by way of Cape of Good Hope, back to Norway, being due home in June, ,1033.