Chichester Urged To Abandon Trip

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31269, 16 January 1967, Page 13

Chichester Urged To Abandon Trip

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, January 15. The “Sunday Mirror” yesterday appealed to the lone yachtsman, Francis Chichester, to abandon the second half of his around-the-world voyage.

“Don’t risk your life on the perilous voyage around Cape Horn,” advised an article on page one. The article, written by Nick Davis in Sydney, said that this was, in effect, the message, which had been issued to Chichester by a group of in-

fluential Australian yachtsmen. Because the Australians did not believe that 65-year-old Chichester would heed their warning, they would appeal to the Duke of Edinburgh to intervene, Davis said. The official spokesman for the Australian yachtsmen, Mr Warwick Hood, a yacht designer, told the newspaper: “We feel Mr Chichester will probably be sailing to his death if he attempts to round Cape Horn. “We felt the only person who could perhaps bring pressure to bear to stop him sailing is Prince Philip,” Mr Hood said. “He is a ychatsman who knows the dangers involved, and he could appeal to Chichester as one sailor to another.”