CRADLED TO THE SEA
THE YACHT VIKING. AFLOAT AFTER TWO YEARS. At the top of Monday morning’s tide, the yacht Viking, largest of Auckland’s pleasure sailers, was cradled back to the sea. She had been out of the water for two and a-half years. The launching took place from W. G. Lowe and Son’s yards in Freeman’s Bay shortly before 8 o’clock. The yacht, spick and span in her new paint, was sent down the ways in her cradle. With the water lapsing her hull again, she was taken in tow by a launch, but the boat was unable to move the sailer into deep water; : With the tide filling every minute it seemed as if the yacht and her cradle would be compelled to spend the day on the mud, but then came the steam tug Kumea to lend her assistance. No time was lost in transferring the tow line, and when the tug went ahead the Viking followed, to be towed to her moorings in deep water. Yachtsmen will welcome the yacht’s return to the sea, for the Viking is probably the best known of Auckland’s pleasure craft She was built by Chas. Bailey for Messrs J. L. and H. R. Bloomfield, of Parnell, and in her racing days she was rigged as a cutter,
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 7
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217CRADLED TO THE SEA Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1932, Page 7
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