MAN ON YAWL
SAILING TO AUSTRALIA IS RESCUED
Recd.. 9 p.m. New York, Sept. 26. How a lone voyage to Australia in a home-made yawl ended by a storm after three days’ sailing, was told by Frederick Wright, on reaching New York aboard a freighter which rescued him last Thursday night. Wright said the storm severely battered the yawl, once washing him overboard and smashing the rudder. The freighter saw his plight and offered to replace the rudder to enable him to continue the voyage, but he elected to be taken aboard. He said he would not again try to sail to Australia. It was too lonesome. The Marine Coastguard found the abandoned yawl and is towing it to port. Wright was the sole occupant ot the yawl.
Sighting a floundering, rudderless yawl 125 miles off the New York coast, a freighter rescued the occupant. Wright left New London (Connecticut) on September 26 to sail to Australia.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 October 1946, Page 5
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