Sailing To N.Z. At 93

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 1

Sailing To N.Z. At 93

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) NAIROBI, Dec. 19. A 93-year-old British grandmother is among a party of five who will sail 8000 miles to New Zealand from Mombasa early next month, the “Sunday Nation” newspaper reported in Nairobi yesterday. The grandmother, Mrs Emmy Cole, will not be dissuaded by her family from making the long see trip on board a 40ft trimaran. Her Mq, Mr George Cote, come to Bert Africa 34 years ago for se Admiralty survey. He then retired in' 1035 and settled in Kenya as a farmer.

Now he and his wife and two ctaiMreo, Jane, aged 23, and Charted, aged 20, have built their own sailing boat it toot them two years and a half. They christened it GalHnure after an East African bird. They expect their trip to New Zealand to take them about two months and a half. The first stop tar the family after Mombnm would be the Seychelles. From there they would go to Christmas Island and then to Darwin before reaching New Zealand. “Quite Determined** Jane Goto, a secretary, empwyca in nairooit sna. “We’ve done our best to get granny to fly over after we reach Now Zealand -if we do —but she’s quite determined '

not to be tat bohind and that’s that.” The idee for the family to sail to Now Tealand came about when the Ktara Government bought Mr Cotes farm two years ago under the land eettiomeot schema, the “Sunday Nation” acid. Tone mid* “Dad decided to hove a Boating home and wo will record (he trip and write about it Mar. “We Grat know what wfi want to de in Now Zealand. Wo will, wait and see if we gat thorn first. Wo are afl very ereltod but to ton you the truth I am s bit worried. “Afl I hope hr that tt we do die it is that it la a pieaaant death like drowning. Ido net want to be swallowed by a shark. “If l bad my choice 1 would prefer to drown.”