SAILING SHIP VOYAGE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22350, 22 February 1936, Page 22

SAILING SHIP VOYAGE

TWO WOMEN IN CREW An opportunity for travel and a unique experience that comes to very few people, and particularly to women, has fallen to the lot of Mrs, M. A. Lindsley, who arrived in Auckland yesterday morning by the Mariposa to join Mr. Alan Villiers' sailing ship, the Joseph Conrad, at present in Auckland. Mrs. Lindsley, who has had considerable experience in sailing, is a lover of the sea and sea-life, and she is eagerly anticipating a five months' journey in the Joseph Conrad back to the United States. Two years ago she crossed the Atlantic in a sailing ship, working then, as she will on the forthcoming journey, as a member of the ship's crew. "It would be very boring if you had no work to do, and although I do not know much about the sailing of a square-rigged ship, which is very different from a schooner, I am looking forward to the experience and all that J, shall learn," Mrs. Lindsley said. It was through her first journey on the schooner across the Atlantic that Mrs. Lindsley first met Mr. Villiers, who invited her to make a trip in the Joseph Conrad. Life on a sailing ship was hard and pleasant, with a sense of adventure, freedom and well-being that could not be obtained anywhere else, Mrs. Lindsley said. The actual work demanded a skill and energy that made a voyage on a liner or steam ship seem thoroughly tame. She had always been fond of the sea, and counted the forthcoming voyage as ono of her greatest experiences. On the Joseph Conrad Mrs. Lindsley will be accompanied by her daughter. Miss Leonora Lindsley, who also possesses her mother's love of sea-life. Women were gradually overcoming old prejudices against anything unusual, Mrs. Lindsley said. The United States was full of women who sailed their own yachts and raced their own speed-boats, drove their own racing cars, and flew their own aeroplanes, and where once they would have been gazed at in astonishment and misgiving they were now accepted naturally.