YACHT CAPSIZES.
YOUNG MEN DROWNED. On Saturday evening a yacht capsized near Somes Island, and two young men, aged between IS and 20, lest their lives. Those dead are:—-David Lauder, of Adelaide Hoad; and Donald Mackay, of Seatonn. The yacht, a 14-footer, with a centreboard, manned by Keith Staff and Don- , aid Mackay. of Seatoun, and David Lauder, of Adelaide Road, who, it is understood, is a recent frow Scotland, after sailing to Bay, started on the return to Seatoun, and when in the vicinity of Somes Island the craft capsized. The throe occupants of tho boat climbed on to the keel and held on. Staff, who was a good swimmer, observing that the yacht was drifting towards the island, left.it and essayed to swim ashore for assistance. He succeeded in reaching land, but hi 3 mateswere not so fortunate. They evidently dropped off the boat and were lost.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 December 1927, Page 4
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