Emigrants Sailing On Yacht To New Zealand

Northern Advocate, 18 July 1946, Page 4

Emigrants Sailing On Yacht To New Zealand

(Rec. 11 a.m.) A grocer who wants a change from working out ration points, and a former member of the Indian Army who wants a change from the English climate, are leaving the Medway today in a 44-ton yacht to cross the Atlantic en route to New Zealand.

They are Captain William Worsdell and Mr Sydney Brown, who are taking their wives and four other men. The yacht, Pleasant Breeze, is an ocean racer, and won the Bermuda Race.

Only two of the crew are experienced sailors.

Captain Worsdell bought the yacht for £3OOO when he discovered that he and his wife would have to wait 18 months for passages to the Dominion. Mr Brown supplied all the provisions for the voyage. FORMER RACER

Captain Worsdell hopes to start business in New Zealand as a motor engineer, and Mr Brown as a grocer. New Zealand House knows nothing cf the venture, but an official said there was nothing to prevent a party of this nature making its own arrangements, provided its members were British

LONDON. July 17

subjects and complied with British health and customs regulations. The Pleasant Breeze, built at Le Havre in 191.3, was formerly the Joke Brise, under which name she won the Fastnet and Santander ocean yacht races, in addition to the Bermuda Race.