YACHT IS BATTERED BY GALES AND SEAS IN BASS STRAIT CROSSING
(Rec, 8 a.m.) MELBOURNE, June 24. After being battered for 20 days by fierce gales and heavy seas, the 35-foot auxiliary yacht Karelia has crowed BaSs Strait and reached Wilson’s Promontory, the southern-most point of the Australian mainland. Mariners described the voyage from Hobart as the most miraculous and foolhardy in Bass Strait history. Powered by a worn motor car engine, the yacht sailed through'storms which forced coastal steamers to shelter for days. She was the only small craft in the strait at the height of the storm period. The engine failed several times, and the mainsail was ripped by terrific squalls. The crow consists of two Tasmanians and a Melbourne man, who are sailing the vessel to Melbourne for a private owner. One had never been to sea before.
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Evening Star, Issue 26136, 25 June 1947, Page 5
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141YACHT IS BATTERED BY GALES AND SEAS IN BASS STRAIT CROSSING Evening Star, Issue 26136, 25 June 1947, Page 5
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