ATLANTIC CROSSING
Yachtsman To Try Again
(N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) FORT LAUDERDALE, (Florida).
Bill Verity says he will try again to sail his 12-foot homemade sailboat to Ireland in May, 1966. On his previous trip he was blown off course on the first leg, from Vera Cruz, Mexico, to Fort Lauderdale. It took him 36 days to sail from Vera Cruz to Mobile, Alabama. He said that he was still convinced that it was possible that Irish monks of the sixth '■entury discovered America by sailing from Ireland to Vera Cruz in search of the source of the Gulf Stream. “I am stilil determined to repeat the monks’ trip in reverse,” he said. “I want to make it across the Atlantic in the smallest boat.”
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 28
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123ATLANTIC CROSSING Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 28
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