ADVENTUROUS YACHT VOYAGE
NEW ZEALANDERS ARRIVE AT SYDNEY SYDNEY, July 17. After an adventurous voyage the yacht Roxane arrived at 7 pun. yesterday ’ from Lord Howe Island and Auckland. The crew consists of three New Zealanders. The yacht was hove to for a day and a-half on its way to Norfolk Island by a cyclone, and the sails were badly torn. During the stay at Norfolk Island a gale tore the yacht from its moorings, breaking both anchor cables, and the crew had no option but to put to sea and work under reduced canvas around to the sheltered side of the island. , , ~ Richard Wellington made for the shore in the dinghy but it was wrecked on the rocks and he had to scramble ashore. For four days Keith Dawson and Leslie O’Brien cniised inshore before they found Wellington. ROUND THE WORLD IN A YACHT THE IDLE HOUR ARRIVES AT RAMSGATE LONDON, July 16. Crossing the world in the yacht Idle Hour, Mr Dwight Long, who left Seattle in 1934, at Ramsgate after sailing 30,000 miles. . The yacht’s sails were blown out in the English Channel. Mr Long s companion, Mr Wilbur Thomas, fell overboard but was rescued.
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Southland Times, Issue 23255, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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