Lazy Cruise Through
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South Seas
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Oct. 29.
WITH the intention of lazily cruising through the South Seas, thus fulfil ling the usual cherished dream, Mr. and Mrs. Northrup H. Castle, a young Hono lulu couple, are themselves building a 3C-ft. double-ended cruising ketch right on the beach from which they will launch it.
Named Hulihee (Wriggling Octopus), the ketch’s hull is “typhoon proof” and planked with apitong, a Philippine wood saturated with camphor, which resists the attacks of teredos. The two-masted design] is based on one developed by famed John G. Hanna, of Florida, who successfully sailed through a typhoon on a voyage to Tahiti via Panama. The Huli hee will be 10-ft. wide and draw of water. For popping into lagoons and through narrow channels, the ketch will be equipped with a 25 h.p. gasoline engine.
Mr. Castle, who has taught navigation at Hawaii University, and holds a mas ter’s unlimited certificate for sail* steam, and motor-vessels, became known to Aus tralia and New Zealand in 1935 when he sailed 3,000 miles through western Hawaiian islands in search of the late C. T. P. Ulm, the Australian airman who was lost when- flying near Hawaii.