ROUND WORLD CRUISE
Cap Pilar About to Leave
Auckland
Dominion Special Service.
Auckland, September 13.
In preparation for her departure later in the week, stores sufficient for six months’ sailing were taken aboard the English barquentine Cap Pilar today. Under the command of Captain Seligman and manned by an amateur crew, the vessel will leave for the Tuamotu Archipelago on Thursday or Friday in continuation of her world voyage. A New Zealand doctor and seven new members of the crew are joining the vessel at Auckland.
Since her arrival from Sydney two months ago, the Cap Pilar has been lying at tlie Western Viaduct. She will go into Calliope Dock in company with the cargo steamer Kairanga, and will return to the viaduct either late on Wednesday afternoon or on Thursday morning. Given a fair wind, the barquentine may commence her 3000miles voyage to Mangareva, in the Tuamotu Archipelago, on Thursday, but it is considered more probable she will leave on Friday. Accommodation in the saloon and forecastle has been altered, and changes which have been made in the rig of the vessel are designed to offer greater stability when running with the wind well abaft. From the Tuamotu Archipelago the Cap Pilar will proceed to the Marquesas Group, and will then probably voyage to San Francisco, via Honolulu.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 10
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219ROUND WORLD CRUISE Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 299, 14 September 1937, Page 10
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