Ketch “Hurricane,”
p. 48 · Read in the full issue
World Cruiser,
Reaches Fiji
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 12.
GY AGING around the world, the 17- T tons American ketch, Hurricane, arrived in Suva on June 24 to spend seve ral weeks in Fiji.
Built by the Captain, Mr. Ray Kauff
man, and Mr. Gerry Mefferd, she left Key West in April last year. She cruised to South America, thence through the Pana ma and around various islands in the Pacific, practically following the same course as the American scientific yacht, Director. Mr. R. Burrell joined the ketch in Tahiti, and Mr. Samuel H. Elbert joined her in Pago Pago, but has left the vessel here.
After Suva the Hurricane will go on to the New Hebrides and the Solomons, and thence to the United States, via the Cape of Good Hope.