Another Us Yacht

In Papua

STILL another American yacht has a taken to roaming the islands of thee southwest Pacific. It is one off more than half-a-dozen now known to c be beating down the wind among the e islands.

The vessel, a well-rigged ketch, bears ? the name Sari Marais I. It sailed from r Brisbane the end of June for the Torres ?

Strait Islands. From the Straits the £ ketch will head for Cocos Island in the £ Indian Ocean and then will point her i nose for Capetown. From there across ? the South Atlantic to the West Indies,. and via the Panama Canal, up the west d coast of the United States where their i world cruise will end.

Skipper and owner of the yacht is ?

Ed. Sanderson, a 48-year-old American r engineer. Aboard also is Otto Radtke of 1 Chicago, as mate. Sanderson’s wife, an x Australian girl from Brisbane, and well- known Australian yachtsman, Keith r Dorg, complete the crew. The skipper is? an ex-merchant mariner.

The Sari Marais I is a 45-footer, equip- ped with a 30-horsepower diesel engines and can carry water and supplies for 75 c days.

Clifford Kruse.