CAPSIZED BOAT

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 79, 12 March 1931, Page 6

CAPSIZED BOAT

I A SMALL SAILING CRAFT j STEAMER OPIHBS BEPOKT. NELSON, March 11. The steamer Opihi reported sighting, 200 yards off Lipins Island, Cable Bay, at 11 o’clock this morning, a small 1 sailing craft about 20 feet in length, on her beam ends. The two masts were partly out of the water, the jib Was set but the other sails were furled. The boat was painted white, her bottom was red and a green flag was on tho mast. Tho boat was too near the shore for -tie steamer to venture closer and it wa? too rough to launch a boat. Seeing no sigfns of life, tho steamer came ot , to Nelson. A pilot launch was despatched immediately, but saw no sign of the boat. A considerable sea is running and settlers are searching the-coast. YACHT FROM NEW PLYMOUTH. CANTERBURY COLLEGE MEN. FEARS FOR THEIR SAFETY., ‘ NEW PLYMOUTH, March 11. With reports to hand that a small yaeht, with sails set, has been sighted upside down ton miles north-east of Nelson by a passing steamer, fear is -felt for the safety of two young men, Mr'S. Silvester, lecturer at Canterbury College, and Mr M. G. R. Hudson, a student of Canterbury College, who loft New Plymouth last Thursday in an 18-foot yawl-rigged yacht, bound for Lyttelton after their vacation, i Mr Hudson is a son of Mr J. R. Hudson, of Elbham. The boat, which loft New Plymouth at 10.30 p.m. on Thursday, was a dirty 'white colour and flew a green flag, on which two letters were joined. It had a green deckhouse. Instead of a centre board* a railway rail had been fixed to ■the boat to give it weight. There were two bunks and two tanks for tho storage of water. One of the anchors was a disused lawnmower. * The boat was last reported by the steamer Kaitoa off Cape Egmorit.. It -was tho intention of the men to rail at d’Urville Island and Pktou. ,‘,'v 1