HOW A SKIPPER AVOIDED HEAD WINDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14007, 11 March 1920, Page 1

HOW A SKIPPER AVOIDED HEAD WINDS.

One ot the most lemarkable stones or the sea wa<- i elated at Poit Talbot (Knghind) bv Ahs Shippen, the wife ol the c lptam c f i sailing barque the luie.iit. 1 which ,i< comphshed a vo\age of 14,500 milt- in ordci to lPaeh a po'fl*W miles d.stant trom the poit ot dopartmc '] leit 3f(ibounii in ,Tuh ' wiote C iptuiii Shippen to his vjfe n thousand mile trip to Bjnban in WellingLon. Count \ West Australia My b-irqiu stiuck a ->tiong westerly ftale, and put into S-.dne*. and leaving &ydne\ aftei i shoit st<n I found Jiat the head winds were still high and de- < id' d instead of crossing the Gieat Aus-t-ah.in Bight to Buubur\ to go -nest lound the woild Frve davs later T iound nn c el ( - off the north ot Zeahnd 1200 nautical miles away, travelling at a speed of 240 miles pel* dav Twentv -eight dajs later T rounded! xbe. Hoin and" the trip continued another thtrtv-three dav«- I hjs then m miJocean, and I leached Bunbur*. m an othei ton davs T estimated that i.iy tiip would take mncty-five da*is, hut it orlv occupied 6eventv-si\ The voyage w<i<- one of 14 500 miles and I pasoedl through eveiv variation of fi-igid temperatures and xornd zones " Bunlnuv is m Geographe Bay Captain Shrppen__certainly -required some knowledge of geogiaplrv to bring b*s •■/hip safeh to port over this long course ' Duimg the war the intrepid skipper w as torpedoed and shelled bv a German mbminne and with his wife spe-it thre**. dajs in an-open boat m mid-Atlantic