YACHT LIMPS HOME
RECOVERED FROM INDIES WORLD CRUISE ATTEMPT DARWIN, March 21. The former luxury yacht Fram, which left Sydney 10 years ago on a world cruise, limped into Darwin in a battered condition with supplies gone and paintwork practically non-existent. She was specially built for the world cruise by a Sydney businessman, Mr. Bradford Potter, now 60, who left Australia in her with his wife and son David.
They reached Bali Straits at the same time as the Japanese. Mr. Potter was captured after two months in hiding, but his wife and son managed to escape from Java. On his release from Japanese internment Mr. Potter spent a short time in Australia and then went back to search for the Fram. He found her near Sourabaya being used for the transport of pigs. With one native boy, he then attempted to bring the yacht to Australia. After negotiating minefields and fighting adverse winds and currents for 40 days, he was forced to return with a broken rudder.
Early this year, with the rig reduced to a yawl and the addition of a '.small petrol engine, Mr. Potter, with his wife and son, made a second attempt. The journey took over two months, culminating in a hurricane off Darwin.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22593, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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