ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE

Otago Witness, Issue 3542, 31 January 1922, Page 37

ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE

MILLIONAIRE'S MOTOR FACET TRIP. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY. January. The first half of an adventurous voyage round the world in a 28ft motor yacht has just been completed by the arrival of the little craft Speejacks in Sydney. She has come from New York, where her millionaire owner, Mr A. Y. Gowan, is a big business man. His wife and a couple of friends are accompanying him on the voyage. The Speejacks is regarded as one of the best equipped yachts that ever sailed the seas. She cost about £50.000 to build. Everything below the water-line of bronze, and the upper portion is of teekwood, specially imported from India at a huge cost. Her motive power is supplied by two 250 horse-power engines, which give a speed of 13 knots, with a cruising radius of 3000 miles. She is equipped with wireless, and everything on board is operated by electricity. » At the truck of her one stout mast the Speejacks flies the flag of the Adventure Club of America. The emblem has been carried to various out-of-the-way parts of the world, but the Speejacks will be the first vessel to carry it right round the globe. Mr Gowan has long cherished the idea of sailing strange seas In hi 9 own craft. The outcome of his idea is the Speejacks. She left New York last August, and from here sho will go up the coast of Australia to the Solomon Islands, then the the Philippines, China, Japan, and to England, via the Suez Canal, finally crossing the Atlantio to New York, reaching homo about 16 months hence.