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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 201, 25 August 1937, Page 9

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OCEAN WANDERERS. I JE RAPUNGA'S CRUISE. I TWO TEARS nr - PACIFIC. , (From Our Own Correspondent.) i VANCOUVER, July 21. The thirty-two-foot yawl, Te Ra-punga, 1 arrived here to-day at the end of a two- t year journey from Auckland, New Zea- e land. With her crew of three she i reached Victoria on July 1, and later 1 crossed the Gulf of Georgia to this port. Sun-browned from seven years of sail- 3 ing, German-born George Dibbern was at J thejielm. With him were two New Zea- ■ landers, Roy Murdoch and Miss Eileen ■ Morris. i The Te Rapunga Bailed from Kiel, Germany, in 1930, when her owner found "he could not settle down after the i war." Since that day she has logged i 55,000 miles, her course leading her through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, then across the South Pacific to the Antipodes. \ . Accompanied by Murdoch and Miss Morris, Dibbern .left New Zealand two years ago,. He touched at various Soutih Sea ports, loafed «a year in the Hawaiian Islands, and reached Victoria thirty-one days out of Honolulu. - Carefree smiles creased the three bronzed faces as they explained the problem of finances. ; "We do a bit of writing and lecturing occasionally," they said. Murdoch is a correspondent for two New Zealand patera, and Miss Morris, who signed on the Te Rapunga as "brass - ljoy," also writes. : Fastest time logged by thejyawl was between Papeete and 'Honolulu, when she covered *202''miles in 24 hours. Her crew, however, 'prefer a- more leisurely pace, for at the end of that day it was found.her speed had opened a seam. ' The wandereiis did not: disclose how long they intended to remain in British Columbia, or what their next., destination would be.