A Sailor Named Drake
There is a fin e old seaman of (i 5 who enjoys the romantic name ot Drake, and has been christened the Lone Sea Rover, who is sailing round th e world in a boat of his own building. Captain Thomas D'rako went out to America 40 years ago and for 20 years has been sailing boats single-haded. Is his last boat, thc St. Francis, he sailed 32,000 miles
Captain Drake’s present boat, the Pilgrim, a 35ft. two-masted schooner nc built from wood collected along the seashore at Seattle. In this hr has already covered some 25,000 mile in less than two years. Now he ha 1 reached Amsterdam and nmy visit England before setting out for Aii tralia, by thc Cape or by the Sue Canal, on his way back to thc American Pacific Coast-
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Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 43, 28 December 1928, Page 1 (Supplement)
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