YACHT ROVER AT WELLINGTON

Evening Star, Issue 23130, 2 December 1938, Page 8

YACHT ROVER AT WELLINGTON

NINE-DAY CRUISE FROM AUCKLAND ■ [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 2. The yacht Rover, which left -Auckland on November 23, arrived at Wellington this morning. She was becalmed on several occasions, once for the better part of two days. She struck really rough weather only a few miles off Wellington Heads. The best day’s run was the 150 miles stretch from Gisborne to Cape Turnagain, but there the wind_ failed. The crew had made a spinnaker boom out of oars and a plank, and while improvising this a member fell overboard off Turnagain. They caught an albicore. a rather rare fish with unusual side fins. They always had plenty of fish, only having to put a line over the side when they wanted _ them. While fishing off the Palliser lighthouse they signalled the keeper and asked him to report them, but they were still there next morning. Here a shark robbed them of some fish. They had two kahawai and two barracoota hanging over the side, and the shark got them. j They drifted till they got a light south-easterly off Turakirae. They struck a bad tide rip, and it began to blow, so that they had to shorten sail till they were under foresail alone. One big sea broke over them, putting six inches of water in the cabin, and some crockery was broken. Harbour was beaten into under engine and sail. At no time did the craft give them the slightest anxiety.