ATLANTIC CROSSING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 259, 30 September 1936, Page 9

ATLANTIC CROSSING.

IN “POCKET LINER.” A FRENCH YACHTMAN’S FEAT. Tanned by sea and sun after a solitary crossing of the Atlantic M. Marin Marie, the yachtsman, arrived at Le Havre on August 14 in his small motor-cruiser Arielle. Although his craft is only 42ft.Jong, with a beam of lilt, and a 55-li.p. motor, M. Marie managed to maintain an average of nine knots on iiis voyage between New York and Le Havre. ' Leaving Key/ York on July 2-;. Die vessel met with heavy weather, but the motor ran uninterruptedly throughout. Even then, at the end of the vovage, M. Marie still had sufficient petrol for four more days at sea. Half Le Havre turned out to sec the Arielle enter port and ft ilag was lun up on the harbour lighthouse in welcome. lhe naval olhcei in command at the port and a number of other prominent persons went out in launches to greet the Arielle, which came in surrounded by small craft. M. Marie w-i’/od to the eiowds which lined the jetties and cheered wildly. . , , ~ After receiving congratulations on behalf of the Minister of Marine and from the municipality the yachtsman ivas received on board the Ij n . Line steamer Cham pi am, on which lie had travelled to New \ork belore jnaking the attempt. The Arielle was also taken to the United states on the liner. The captain of the Champlain congratulated M. Marie on a remarkable exploit m his pocket liner.” . , M. Marie, who is 30, is well known ns a painter of seascapes in addition to his sea adventures, lie has already crossed the Atlantic from cast to west, from Brittany to jScw York, m a 42fb. cutter, VVinnibelle. Ho lias also made two expeditions to Greenland with M. Charcot, who recently perished in the sea tragedy oir Iceland.