Search decision tomorrow

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33933, 28 August 1975, Page 1

Search decision tomorrow

; C.V.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, 1 August 27. r A decision not to s mount a search for the : missing 28ft ketch Verl onica (shown below) will ; be reviewed on Friday. "The decision will be reviewed if the Veronica has ' not been heard from or I sighted by then,” said Cap- , tain E. G. Boyack, nautical ; adviser in the Marine Divi- . sion of the Ministry of Trans- . port, in Wellington last ; evening. ’ The Veronica has not been ; sighted or heard from since ’ she left Gisborne on August

16, bound for Dunedin, via Lyttelton. The Veronica’s owner, Mr R. W. Hay, of Ivanhoe Road, Dunedin, is aboard the yacht, Mr Hay, who is married, with four children, is a member of the Otago Cruising Club, and an experienced sailor, and has two Auckland men, Messrs R. A. Hoskyn, of 13 Bayview Road, Takapuna, and W, G. Comthwaite, of 64 Kupe Street. Orakei, both experienced off-shore sailors, as professional crew.

“Our assessment is that the Veronica has run into adverse weather for at least the first week, and so she would not make much progress towards Dunedin.” Captain Boyack said. “She does not sail well into the wind, and so she would be blown off course and will now be beating back towards the coast with the suitable weather,” he said.