Wandering Yachtsmen
p. 23 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent.
Honolulu, June 1.
FIVE San Franciscans in the 56 ft. ketch-rigged “Otter” have left for a three-years’ cruise to Easter Island, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Fiji, and New Zealand. Led by the “Otter’s” owner and skipper. Albert Gallatin Powers, the party includes Mrs. Powers. High Mac donald, Robert Shackleford and Ruby Shields.
The “Otter - ’ carries 2,000 sq. feet of canvas, an auxiliary engine with 700 miles cruising radius, and a transmitting and receiving radio set with a wide range.
Six months cruising among Pacific is lands in the 34ft. ketch “Seaward” has been planned by Messrs. J. Rawson and K. Kleiner, of Melbourne, who left Mel bourne on June 7 for Norfolk Island, where they will join three New Zealand ers. From Norfolk Island the “Seaward” will go to New Caledonia, then to Rock hampton. and up the Great Earner Reef to Papua and New Guinea.