WORLD CRUISE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21103, 1 August 1938, Page 11

WORLD CRUISE

PREPARATIONS FOR RESUMPTION By Telegraph —Press Association AUCKLAND, July 31 After undergoing some reconditioning and repairs, the South African ketch-rigged yacht Land’s End which has been wintering in Auckland in the course of a world cruise from Durban, is now at the Harbour Board’s slip, where final preparations are in progress for her departure on Monday, August 8. It Is the Intention of her owner, Captain Jeffery, to proceed to Whangarei and the Bay of Islands, whence a voyage will be made to the Tongan group. It is anticipated that the yacht will return to Auckland from a cruise among the Tongan islands about the second week in November. The craft will remain in Auckland for a part of the yachting season, after which she will circumnavigate New Zealand, including Stewart Island. After that sail will be set for Sydney. Proceeding up the Australian coast and visiting Brisbane, the yacht will then make for New Guinea, and alter leisurely progress among those islands and the Dutch East Indies she will cross t.. 0 -ndian Ocean and return to Durban. She will then have circumnavigated the globe, having left Durban In September last and entered the Pacific through the Panama Canal. Changes have been made in the crew in Auckland. D. Ashton, of Whangarei, has joined the yacht, and H. R. Jenkins, ex M.P., who is building his own boat in the Bay of Islands for ocean cruising, will make the trip to Tonga and back to Auckland in order to gain experience and to practice navigation. “I have not. the slightest intention of writing a bock on the world cruise,” said Captain Jeffery, In reply to a question. “That sort of thing has been overdone, but I am making a pictorial record with a movie camera. I like to entertain various yachting clubs at different ports with moving picture views of places I visit. It is some return tor the hospitality I encounter.”