SAILING BOAT CAPSIZES

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 December 1936, Page 9

SAILING BOAT CAPSIZES

A TIMELY RESCUE. [PEB PBEBB ASSOCIATION.] AUCKLAND. December 21. Forced to cling to his partly-sub-merged open sailing boat for three hours when it capsized off Crusoe Island on Sunday morning, a young mark'd man, Stanley Richard Brown, of Auckland, was picked up by a passing yacht. Leaving Auckland at 6 o'clock to ■ako a quantity of gear to his weeknd cottage at Blackpool Bay, Wai!>eke. Brown was sailing his lift, boat before the wind. When lie was off Crusoe Island the boat jibed and the back-stay prevented the boom from swinging over. The boat capsized, and Brown was thrown into the water. He managed to grasp the partly-submerged boat, and righted it sufficiently to be able to support himself. For three hours he hung on •intil the crew of a passing yacht which has not been identified took him on board. Ho was dropped at a point on tho southern end of Waiheke Island, within walking distance of his parents’ home at Blackpool Bay. lie lost everything ho had aboard the small boat, including a new suit, and when ho returned to Auckland to-day he was wearing borrowed clothes.