SEATTLE SAILOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 8

SEATTLE SAILOR.

I YACHT LIMPS IN. ROUGH VOYAGE FROM SAMOA. DWIGHT LONG SAYS NOTHING. , Limping round North Head : a-'t 10.85 .this morning came the Idle Hour, American 22ft ketcli-rigged: yacht. Her foremast and, bowspit had gone, and there were other evidences that,slip had experienced a rough passage from her last port, Pago Pago. How it all happened, and when, ■is a mystery. The owner and skipper, Mr, Dwight Long, 22-year-old University student, will not talk—especially to reporters. His lips are commercially sealed. "No, sir," he says. "You know my position." "How long are you out from Pago Pago?" he was asked. 1 "I don't Know," he replied. "What do you do in ordinary life?" "I don't know," he replied, and that was the pith of his conversation as he busied himself about his ship. The Idle. Hour is tied up at Freeman's Bay alongside the yacht of another American adventurer, Mr. Roger Strout, of the Igridsal, and even the questions of a compatriot failed to move the newcomer. "Where did it happen?" asked Mr. Strout with a nod towards the broken foremast. Dwight Long motioned towards the reporter and said nothing. Sailing the World. But Dwight Long's story has preceded him—or at least part of it. It is known that he came to Auckland 011 her last visit as a "wiper" 011 the Lu "line, and that he was then 011 his way to Pago Pago to pick up the Idle Hour, in which he first sailed from Seatiio 011 a round-the-world cruise. An i the "Sytlr.ey Sun" of November 12 told "<Ais pa) t: Mr. Long has already spent a at sea, most jf it unaccompanied, ana. leaving his kctcii at L'ego Pago lie Cf.me to Sydney a? a member of t.be crtw of the Lurline, to nwkc pi bliniin • ary arrangements before continuing. "L just could not make up my mind at the University what to try for, nni had taken several subjects," explained the young man, "so I made up my mind to sail around the world and find for myself a different and real education." Friend of Will Rogers. He was a guest of the late Will Rogers at his home in Los Angeles, and had been at sea three months before he heard the news of his host's death. He has visited San Diego, Honolulu, the islands of the Hawaiian Group, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Society and CookGroups, the Manua Islands and Pago Pago, with adventure attending upon his course. As a companion he now has a Tahitian 15-year-old boy, who joined at Bora Bora. He will not talk either. He smiles and says, "See the skipper."