Mariner, 81 off again
NZPA-Reuter Dartmouth Britain’s intrepid mariner. Bill Harper, aged 81, yesterday set out for the fourth time in ten days on his haphazard search for a route to the Mediterranean. A retired dentist, Mr Harper and his 17 metre motor cruiser Windelf have become something of a headache to English coastguards who have launched lifeboats twice so far to rescue -lim after he lost his bearing cff the English coast. Another time off Cornwall he shouted to yachtsmen competing in a regatta: “Can any of vou chaps tell me where I am?” But this time he is sure he will make it to the sunny Mediterranean. Before he steamed out of this southern port he shouted: “When I get to Weymouth I’ll turn sharp right for Cherbourg, right?” And he is quite outraged by insinuations that he knows nothing about navigation. “I’ve got a few charts, a compass and a pair of dividers. If that’s not enough there is always God and guesswork,” he says. Yesterday he was somewhere off the coast of England. The coastguard says that if anybody sees him would they please point him in the right direction.
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