“Idle Hour", After 35,000

Miles, Wrecked in Harbour

THE 32-ft. ketch “Idle Hours”, was wrecked in Long Island Sound (At lantic coast of the United States) on the night of September 21. She will be remembered in many parts of the Pacific as the little boat which the American University student, Dwight Long, sailed from Seattle across the Pacific Ocean in 1935-36; thence to Auckland, Sydney, Papua, East Indies.

Colombo, Suez Canal, Gibraltar, Lon-

don, and then across the Atlantic, home.

Dwight Long, writing from New York, sends the attached photograph to the editor, and says: “My boat was wreck ed here in the worst hurricane that had struck New England and vicinity since 1815. I had completed 35,000 miles, and was safe in harbour and then to be wrecked!

“Curiously' enough, I was down at Radio City, describing over the air a former hurricane I had experienced, when my boat broke away from its moor ings. and was pounded against a sea wall. smashing in ten ribs and 18 planks”.

Mr. Long does not say whether the vessel is capable of repair. The photo graph suggests that repair is possible.

We should not be surprised to see the indomitable young American back in the Pacific again, with his famous “Idle Hour”.

The “Idle Hour”, where she was thrown against a sea-wall and smashed, by a hurricane.