LONG SEA VOYAGE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 99, 20 January 1933, Page 6

LONG SEA VOYAGE

Ketch from Suva

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND

Dominion Special Service". Auckland, Jan. 10,

“I don’t like finishing up the trip behind a tow rope, but our dinghy will be of no use to us if we anchor in the harbour,” stated Mr. G. Longdale, skipper of the Suva ketch Seafarer, as the Harbour Board launch Ferro ranged alongside her in the harbour on Wedr nesday afternoon, and offered her-as-sistance in berthing. The flat-bottomed dinghy had opened through exposure to the sun on the Seafarer’s deck during the trip, and the skipper explained that the main reason for carrying it was to use it as a sea anchor if the necessity arose. The Ferro came alongside, lines were made fast, and as the 34ft. craft was brought into a herth at the Central Wharf her jib, mainsail, and mizzen, which had brought her smartly up the gulf, were furled.

The Seafarer’s arrival adds further to the ■ venturesome trips which have been made in the Pacific during the past year, and her voyage satiated the whim for adventure of a party of five residents of Suva. Iler skipper is the oldest of the party, and the others, young men in, their twenties, are L. Lonngrcn, B. and E. Lee (brothers), and J. Stenberg. The last-named is an Aucklander, and is the son of Captain E. A. Stenberg, of Point Chevalier. ' Eight days, out from Suva the Seafarer was endeavouring to find an anchorage at Houhora last Thursday; to dry but after experiencing an easterly, storm for two days, before mpking a landfall, when the Northern Company’s Waka took her in tow and brought hetdown to Mangonui. Last'Monday she left Mangonui, and had a pleasant trip down to Auckland.