Sailor burns ’is ‘orse
NZPA Kingston An English undertaker, Allan Warren, sailed “Gift ’Orse” into fourteenth place in the Olympic Tempest series yesterday, then set fire to his boat, talked a Canadian naval frigate into ramming it, and stood in formal salute with his crewman, David Hunt, while it sank still blazing into the waters of Lake Ontario. He had bought the boat second-hand for $350.
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Press, 29 July 1976, Page 14
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