Successful Yacht Design
pp. 49-50 · Read in the full issue
PACIFIC Islands residents, who nearly all are small boat navigators, will be interested in the following article published recently in Sydney: With the arrival here of the yawl “Marie”, from U.S.A. via Pacific Islands, yachtsmen have a chance of see ing a sister-ship to the famous yawl “Islander”, twice sailed around the world by Harry Pidgeon.
The design is an enlargement of the little 25 ft. yawl “Seahind”, sailed across the Atlantic by Captain Day in 1906. and recognised by leading naval archi tects as one of the strangest and most seaworthy designs known.
The dimensions of the “Marie” are of interest: 34ft. length over all by 10ft.
94in. beam, and with a draft of water sft she has only 1 2 371 b. of iron on the ee L which makes the design re stably stiff m a seaway m compan son with a round bottom type 01 yacnt Ihe teel & mUCh g " ater g , iU . , . , Boats built from this design have an unequalled record for ocean cruising, one 25-footer successfully weathering a se- V ere typhoon. A sister-ship to the 25footer can be seen any day in Mosman Bay Sydney.
The arrival of the “Marie- is again proof that a small yacht properly hand led is just as sale as the largest liner afloat. Over a dozen yachts of under 40 feet on the waterline have now safely circumnavigated the world.
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Paul, of Western Samoa, will return to Apia during the month after an extensive tour through the East and U.S.A.
Mrs. Emily Vallance Cox, widow of the late Rev. W. H. Cox, who was for many years a missionary and chairman of the Methodist Mission at Rabaul, New Guinea, died at Strathfield, N.S.W., on November 22, aged 64.