Risky Voyage
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From Borabora to New Zealand In Motorless Ketch
From Our Own Correspondent
Rarotonga, April 19.
FOURTEEN days out from Borabora, in the Leeward group of French Oceania, the pocket-edition ketch Farys reached here early this month. Twenty-one feet in length and with a displacement of two tons, the Farys is quite the smallest of the several small craft which have lately called in.
Motorless, she is a Tahiti built boat and was acquired there by her present owner, Mr. E. J. Weber, a native of Poland.
Prior to his arrival in the South Seas, Mr. Weber had neither knowledge nor ex perience of small-boat sailing. Practising seamanship in the lagoon at Papeete and studying navigation in the evenings, he gradually acquired sufficient confidence to embark on the first stage of his single handed voyage to New Zealand, which he proposes to reach via Samoa and Fiji.
And yet there are those who claim that the spirit of adventure is dying out!
His Excellency, Sir Murchison Fletcher, Governor of Fiji, paid a farewell visit to the northern and western districts of the Colony during April, before leaving Suva by the Aorangi on May 1, en route to Trinidad, where he has been appointed Governor.