YACHT’S LONG TRIP

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 146, 5 June 1936, Page 7

YACHT’S LONG TRIP

* Sydney to Plymouth

FATHER AND TWO SONS

LONDON, June 4.

Mr Harold Nossiter and his two sons

arrived at Plymouth from Sydney in the 30-ton auxiliary schooner yacht Sirius, via Singapore and the Red Sea. They are returning via Panama in the autumn.

The Sirius arrived without a mishap on the voyage and with not a single day’s illness. After leaving Sydney the Sirius went to Rabaul and spent a week around New Guinea. Then they wont to Duton, Bali, Batavia, Singapore, Penang, Langkawi, Colombo and Aden, where they heard of King George’s death. The passage from Colombo to Aden, 2100 miles, occupied 17 days. The best performance was the voyage through the Red Sea, 1200 miles being traversed in 15 days.

From Port Said the Sirius went to Crete, then to Piraeus, the lonian Islands, Malta and Gibraltar. They were forced to heave-to- on several occasions in the Mediterranean owing to 60-mile-an-hour gales, and narrowly escaped being wrecked at Singapore owing to lack of wind causing a tidal drift towards the breakers. The worst weather was between Malta and Gib raltar. The cockpit and deek were covered with hail and snow, which became blocks of ice.

They left Gibraltar on May 11. Head winds were encountered, except for two days, for one thousand miles. The machinery was used only when entering and leaving port.