LONE ADVENTURER
CRUISE TO NEW ZEALAND POLISH ENGINEER'S • PLANS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday The correspondent of the Press Association at Rarotonga states that the yacht Farys arrived there on April 3. The yacht is sailed by Mr. E. J. Weber, a Polish electrical engineer, who is making a leisurely cruise from Tahiti to New Zealand. The Farys is 21ft. long, with a displacement of two and a-half tons. The only person aboard is Mr. Weber, who learned navigation at a French school at Tahiti. A call was made at the island of Bora Bora en route to Rarotonga, where Mr. Weber will stay for a month. He intends to sail to Samoa and Fiji, and thence to New Zealand. He expects to arrive at Auckland in October or November.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22406, 30 April 1936, Page 10
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