YAWL ARRIVES FROM SYDNEY

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25390, 13 January 1948, Page 8

YAWL ARRIVES FROM SYDNEY

ENTRANT FOR TRANS-TASMAN RACE

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 16. After a voyage of 17 days from Sydney, the 40-foot yawl Wayfarer, the flagship of the Cruiser Yacht Club of Australia, owned and skippered by Mr P. M. Luke, arrived at Russell, Bay of Islands at 11 o’clock this morning. The Wayfarer is one of several Australian yachts which have entered for the Auckland to Sydney race, which is to start on January 24. She left Sydney on Boxing Day with the 28 competitors in the Sydney to Hobart race, and later parted with the racing fleet. Two of the competitors in the latter event, the 36-foot cutter Peer Gynt, and the ketch Kurrewa 111, are expected at Auckland soon for the race to Sydney. No other craft was seen by the Wayfarer after she left the racing fleet. She took four and a half days to reach Lord Howe Island, where the crew spent five days. The voyage to Russell took seven days. The Wayfarer will leave Russell tomorrow morning for Auckland, where she is expected on Thursday. The crew are Messrs Luke, B. Beckett, J Doyle, N. Carson, and M. Slater. Messrs Beckett, Doyle, and Garson are former members of the Royal Australian Air Force. Fourteen yachts have entered the trans-Tasman race, which has been sponsored by the Royal Akarana Yacht Club. Ketches, schooners, cutters, and yawls are included.