LEISURELY VOYAGING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19376, 14 July 1937, Page 8

LEISURELY VOYAGING

CREW OF BARQUENTINE HOLIDAY IN AUCKLAND (For Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The 300-ton barquentine Cap Pilar, an erstwhile French fishing vessel, now manned with 18 young men on adventure hound, stole quietly into Auckland harbour this morning, as part of a plan which seems as elastic as the romantic narratives surrounding the tales of thousands of other sailers and their crews. Captain Adrian Seligman, the ownercommander, takes life as he finds it from place to place. He knows not where he may he six months hence. His vessel took 15 uneventful days to reach here from Sydney. Mrs. Seligman, the captain’s wife, appears to take life just as philosophically. Last September she set out with her husband and his crew, and after making calls at Madeira, Teneriffe, Rio de Janeiro, the island of Tristan Da Cunha and Capetown, she went on to Sydney in a motor ship and came to Auckland and was waiting to greet her husband when he berthed.

Captain's Wife Rejoining When the Cap Pilar leaves here in six weeks or so, Mrs. Seligman wil\ join the vessel and its crew on the voyage. To-day, the crew drew reluctant razors through their beards and prepared themselves for a holiday at some of New Zealand’s picturesque places, for after a few days spent in painting the upper works, they will have from three to four weeks on leave. When they return the Cap Pilar will go into dry dock for overhaul. Just when Ihe vessel will reach England, neither the captain nor the crew can tell, nor are they less indifferent. Perhaps they will go to Tonga and other islands in the Pacific, and if their plans materialise they may stay there six months, beat up to japan, thence across the Pacific to America, and around to New York by way of Panama Canal, and so to England. . . ,

There may ho some vacancies in the crow before the Cap Pilar sails. Captain Seligman hinted as much, for she is not carrying her full complement and extra hands and additional capital which the newcomers will be asked to bring will make life a little smoother. There are always dues to he paid and stores (to he purchased, and there must always he a little money in hand for to-morrow and the day after.