The voyage of a brigantine
Orson Welles narrates “The Voyage of the Brigantine Yankee,” this evening’s “This World” feature on SPTV.
An amateur crew of boys and girls sails this craft (illustrated above)
from its home port, Gloucester, Massachusetts, on erne of the great adventures of their lives.
The voyage takes them through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands,
on to Pitcairn and through the storybook South Sea isles. They island-hop the Pacific visiting Moorea, the Marquesas and the Fiji islands. Reaching New Guinea, the brigantine turns im* land and is steered 150
twisting miles up the murky Sepik River. Later it crosses the South China Sea to Bangkok, Thailand, Singapore, Jakarta and Bali before nosing into the Indian Ocean and crossing to the island of Zanzibar. The greatest challenge
of the voyage is yet to come as Yankee coasts along the shores of Africa towards the crashing seas off the Cape of Good Hope.
Finally she turns and plunges into the Atlantic — towards home.
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