Another Lone Voyager
pp. 50-51 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, July 15.
A YOUNG American, Robert Hill, of Santa Monica, California, has ar rived in Hawaii in his 26-R. yacht, in which he hopes to c'rcumnavigate the globe via the South Seas, Queensland.
New Guinea, then on to America via Suez. He has with him Tinau Tehei. a Tahitian who came here recently in the luxury yacht Cassida, which was char tered for a South Seas cruise by young Mr. George Vanderbilt, scion of the
famed New York multi-millionaire family.
Mr. Mill hopes to stay as close to the equator as he can. From here he will; go to Nuka Hiva, in the Marquesas. He ex pects to get his biggest thrill in crossing the Red Sea.
It is said only one other sail boat has made this crossing: it was the Svaap, and, incidentally, its master, Mr. Robin son, who holds the record for rounding the world in the tiniest craft, had as his sole “crew,” Etera Tehei, a brother of Mr. Mill’s Tinau Tehei.
The Rel Sea crossing is said to be diffi cult because of lack of favourable winds, strong currents, and sand blown from the deserts.