HOLIDAY CRUISE
FIVE MEN IN CUTTER VOYAGE TO -SYDNEY (Pur Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Five young men in search of holiday adventure left Auckland yesterday aboard the 36ft. cutter Wayfarer for Sydney, by way of Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. Later they propose to sail back to Auckland. The whole cruise will occupy about four months. The joint owners of the Wayfarer, Messrs K. and G. Reid, of Otahuhu, who also built, her, have with them as crew Mr. Douglas Rush and Mr. Don Hardy, of Auckland, , and Mr. Bernard Black, of Napier. Mr. Keith Reid is skipper andi naviator and the others are all experienced yachtsmen, with the exception of Mr. Black, who is making his first voyage. .
"It is simply a holiday," said Mr. K. Reid. "We are unlikely .to go beyond Sydney. We will call at Russell vm the. way up the coast and expect to make Norfolk Island in about 10 days' time. 'We are in no I hurry and are making the trip purely for pleasure. No schedule has been made and we have no plans as to what, we will do when we get to Sydney."
Carrying sufficient stores and water l'or two months, the Wayfarer has a motor for use in emergency.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19860, 10 February 1939, Page 14
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211HOLIDAY CRUISE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19860, 10 February 1939, Page 14
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