MODEM WINDJAMMER

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3146, 4 December 1923, Page 6

MODEM WINDJAMMER

SYDNEY’S- UNIQUE VISITOR. LUXURY AT SKA, More than one of Sydney’s ‘‘old salts” will look with envious eyes at the beautiful-fitted and yacM-like schooner Sir Thomas J. Upton, which anchored off Double Bay to-dav after a. 73 days’ passage from Columbia River. Her tall, tapering masts, adorned' by brand-new rigging and unsoiled canvas, will appeal even to untrained' eyes. Leaving the schooner’s deep-stained' poop deck and descending tin, compnnionway, which leads to the officers’ 1 quarters, one gets an idea, of the pleasures of present-day sailing. A huger square of thick, green carpet covers it | well-polished floor, and’ wickerwork. | chairs, with bulging cushions eaciCs bearing the initials “T.J.L.,” greet:, the visitor. i In a prominent position is a signed, j portrait of Sir T horn res : Liptoa, the» j noted Irish sportsman, bearing in his- j own handwriting the words. “With j every good wish to mv namesake. Best; , luck, favouring winds, and safe, ha- , vons. ” . | All the officers’ quarters are fitted'} with steam heaters. The master’s own: j cabin compares with the first-class ac- j commodation on many passenger liners.. Instead of a bunk the master sleeps irr. : a double bed, the legs of which nve>'< fitted into the floor. Even the third, mate has a private cabin fitted out | similarly to the master’s. . ( The fo’c’sle of the schooner would' make some steamer crews envious. Only four berths are fitted into a room large enough to contain seven bunks; It was admitted by some port authorities who boarded the vessel that the not.ed barque E. R. Sterling has a rival in the Sir Thomas .1. Gipson. Sir Thomas Upton, after whom- the vessel is named, is mil the owner; but the schooner is llie property ot his lawyer.