YACHT’S COASTAL TRIP

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 9

YACHT’S COASTAL TRIP

ROVER AT WELLINGTON

UNEVENTFUL VOYAGE

(Pur Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The yacht Rover, which left Auckland on November 23, arrived at Wellington this morning. She was becalmed on several occasions, once for the better part of two days. She struck really rough weather only a few miles off Wellington Heads.

The best day’s run was the 150 miles’ stretch from Gisborne to Cape Turnagain, but there the wind failed. The crew had made a spinnaker boom out of the oars and a plank and, while improvising this, a member fell overboard Off Cape Turnagain. They caught an albicore, a rather rare fish with unusual side fins. They always had plenty of fish, only having to put the line over the side when they wanted them.

While fishing off Cape Palliser light, they signalled the keeper and asked him to report them, but they were still there next morning. _ Here a shark robbed them of some fish, they had two kahawai and two barracuda hanging over the side and the shark got them.

They drifted iilJ they got a light south-easterly oil Turakirae. Dhey struck a bad tide ri.p and it began to blow, increasing in force so that they had to shorten sai.l till they were under the foresail alone. One big sea broke over them, leaving six inches of water in the cabin and broken crockery. The harbour was beaten into under engine and sail. At no time did the craft give them the slightest anxiety.