BARQUENTINE SIGHTED

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22779, 13 July 1937, Page 8

BARQUENTINE SIGHTED

CAP PILAR OFF TIRITIR! ARRIVAL THIS MORNING The barquentine Cap Pilar, which left Sydney for Auckland on June 28, was sighted five miles from Tiritiri at 11.50 o'clock last night. It was not known whether the ship would proceed immediately into port or remain outside the harbour limits until daylight. The Cap Pilar, which is on. the seventh stage of a world voyage, is under the command of her owner. Captain Adrian Seligman, and has a complement of 19.

As the vessel is classed as a yacht and is not bound to carry a pilot in harbour limits there is a possibility that she may run before a moderate wind up Eangitoto Channel and moor in the stream for port inspection. On receiving clearance she will berth at Western Viaduct.

Light head winds which prevailed on the coast aro believed to have delayed the Cap Pilar, which was sighted 92 miles from Auckland at midnicht Saturday. The wind veered yesterday morning to tho north-north-west, and increased during the day to moderate strength, giving the barquentine a steady run into port at about eight or nine knots.

The unusual sight of two well-known sailing ships will bo civ on at Auckland nt tlio end of the week with tho arrival from Melbourne, via Wellington and Nelson, of tho topsail schooner Huia, the last sailing vessel trading regularly across tho Tasman. Tho Huia and the Cap Pilar left Australia for New Zealand within a few days of one another.