LOSS OF THE MIZPAH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 100, 1 May 1933, Page 6

LOSS OF THE MIZPAH.

My letter was written, as I think it clearly shows, for the purpose of raising l the question of the status of certificated yacht-masters. It had nothing to do with Mr. Kelleway personally; his name and that of his craft were introduced merely to illustrate a set of circumstances. I am exceedingly sorry that my question has been so misunderstood as to be read as casting reflection on .Mr. Ivelleway. • Had I thought him to blame in any way, and said so. the editor would not have published the letter, because, pending an inquiry, the matter was sub judice. In the latter part of my letter I referred to the difference between cruising-in northern waters and facing a real southerly off Cape Turnagain. "Larboard Watch," in an endeavour to correct me, • makes himself ridiculous by comparing the Teddy with the Mizpah. The Teddy was an exceptionally heavily timbered craft, built for riding out winter gales in the North Sea; she was rigged almost as heavily as a scow. The Mizpah, apparently was a "'lady of the gulf," built for cruising in summer seas within reach of numerous havens of refuge from sudden gales. And when "Larboard Watch" mentions "charts" in connection with the conditions which the Mizpah had , to face, he shows that whatever he may think he knows about seafaring is as obsolete as his nom de plume. AMATEUR SAILOR.