Lone Yachtsmen In South
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Seas
WITH a yen for adventure but not for companionship, two young seamen have recently sailed their own yachts single-handed across the South Pacific.
One of the men, 30-year-old Alf Peter son, an American, has arrived in Sydney after a 24 days crossing from Auckland.
Peterson, a boatyard worker in the States, sailed his 33 ft. craft, Stornaway, from the Panama Canal to the Marquesas, thence to Tahiti and Rarotonga, Fiji, and then on to New Zealand.
The Kroja, a 24 ft. craft out of Am sterdam, Holland, is now in the Samoa area. Ernst Lamberti, a Dutchman who served with the French Foreign Legion and the French Navy during the late war, set sail from Holland and called in at Portugal, the Azores and Trinidad be fore going through the canal. From Panama he was 82 days crossing the 4,000 miles to the Marquesas.
Both of the men are on world cruises and will cross through the East Indies waters. —Special Correspondent.