KETCH SAILS FOR AMERICA

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 20

KETCH SAILS FOR AMERICA

£13,000 Manawanui Leaves Auckland (New Zealand Press AUCKLAND, September 24. The 60ft auxiliary ketch, Manawanui, left Auckland tonight with her crew of five, including one woman, bound for Dos Angelei, via Tahiti. Only one of her crew is an experienced Pacific yachtsman. He is Athol Rusden, aged 40, an Auckland millinery manufacturer. Four of the crew are members of the Royal Akarana Yacht Club. They are Mr Rusden, lan Johnson, aged 42, an Auckland publican; Brian Neill, aged 30, a Hastings car salesman; and Allan Foster, aged 28, an industrial chemist, of Lowry Bay, Wellington. Mr Rusden and Mr Neill are joint owners of the ketch, which is valued at £13,000. The “general factotum’’ on the voyage will be 39-year-old Mrs Iniz Johnson. “My main job is to man the galley,’’ she said. “This is my first voyage across the Pacific in a yacht and I am looking forward to it immensely." Mr Rusden has sailed four yachts across the Pacific to the United States, the first being the Faith in 1949. He described the nine-months voyage as “an extended pleasure cruise.”