Schooner still on beach
NZPA staff correspondent Washington The schooner, City of Dunedin, has been hauled a few metres down the East Falkland Island beach on which she is stranded but the attempt to refloat her on Saturday was abandoned as the tide dropped. Fog started rolling into the Falkland islands then and the wind turned to the south-west. The 13m steel boat, sailed by the New Zealander, Dick Mcßride, went aground at Porpoise Point on East Falkland Island at the beginning of March, while taking part in a round-the-
world single-handed race. The rest of the fleet still in the race — nine boats — is at Rio de Janiero waiting to set sail on April 10 for the finishing line at Newport, Rhode Island. Mr Peter Dunning, a race organiser at Newport, said that news on a ham radio
link indicated that the attempt to refloat the City of Dunedin would continue when the tide was high. Communications were difficult because of solar flares, he said, but it seemed they were using a three-ton anchor as a “dead man” and hauling from the beach.
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