YACHT IDLE HOUR
Progress of World Cruise Dominion- 7 Special Service. Auckland, April 29. In a letter from Sydney to a friend in Auckland, Mr. Ivan Palmer, of Auckland, who is making a world cruise with Mr. Dwight Long in the yacht Idle Hour, states that the craft was undergoing extensive overhaul on a slip at Rushcutter’s Bay, Sydney. Mr. Long had purchased a chronometer which wopld take the place of an unreliable watch. Mr. Frank Packer, owner of the GOft. yacht Morna, which had recently been converted from a gaff to bermuda rig, had given the crew of the Idle Hour enough canvas for two suits of sails. "Wo have been able to get charts right to Singapore,” states Mr. Palmer. “We are going first to the Barrier Reef, then New Guinea, and then through the Dutch East Indies. The good season for the Barrier Reef is just beginning. The Idle Hour is a great sea boat. She behaved wonderfully on the Tasman trip and it was pretty dirty at times. She takes a few on the beam just aft of amidships, but no really heavy water came aboard.’’
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 182, 30 April 1936, Page 13
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190YACHT IDLE HOUR Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 182, 30 April 1936, Page 13
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