TIKI ACROSS TASMAN

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 14

TIKI ACROSS TASMAN

‘Defiant Dane’s’ Lone Voyage (N.Z. Press Association) WHANGAREI, Sept. 30. The “defiant Dane,” Peter Klokker, has arrived at Gladstone, Queensland, after a lone voyage across the Tasman in his 24ft backyard-built sloop Tiki. Klokker sailed from Whangaroa on August 23 after refusing to permit the Marine Department to survey Tiki’s seaworthiness and her equipment. He maintained he was a Danish citizen and not subject to New Zealand Marine Department regulations, and that he knew what he was doing. The Dane made an earlier attempt to cross to Australia but had to turn back because of sickness. His arrival is reported in a letter to friends in Whangarei, Mr and Mrs J. Pedersen. The letter says he found Norfolk Island where it should have been on the way across, and that he arrived with plenty of fuel, food and water in reserve. He had only one day of storm and was becalmed for two days. Klokker is taking a job as a carpenter “at £6 a day and £l2 on Sundays” to stock up on money before continuing his voyage home to Denmark.

Bankruptcy Order.—Colin Armstrong Gribble was adjudged bankrupt by Mr Justice Wilson in the Supreme Court yesterday on the petition of Motor Sales (Dunedin), Ltd., for which Mr R. J. de Goldi appeared.