LATE MESSAGES
AUCKLAND, July 9. With most of her sails in ribbons, dinghy stove in, and cabin in confusion, the 22-ft. mullet boat, Waima, limped back to Auckland, under jury rig this "morning. A thrilling story of a tremendous battle with the wind and wave was told by William Currie Valentine, owner-master and the “crew,” who set out alone from Auckland two weeks ago, in a daring attempt to sail the tiny ship to England. When the Waima slipped out of the harbour a week ago last Sunday, it was thought she was bound for Gisborne, and not until a note was found in a boat shed at Mechanics’ Bay, was it learnt that the owner has England for his goal. “I was making for England all right ,and I think I would have got Inhere, if I had not had confoundedly bad luck, before I was properly away,” said Valentine, when his boat had been towed to an anchorage this morning. Even now, when he realises that he is a lucky man to be alive, Valentine speaks of the ill-fated trip as if it was nothing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 July 1932, Page 7
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