Yachts Meet at Avarua
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From Our Own Correspondent, Rarotonga, Sept. 15.
THE Avarua wharf at Rarotonga is a very busy place these days, no less than seven small craft being tied up there.
Mr. Dick Brown seems determined to acquire a private fleet. His Mahurangi is back again, and on. her starboard side the Karoro wobbles about with her usual
lack of dignity, to port the Marie proudly floats once more. (About a year ago Mr.
Frank Donat wrecked this little boat bringing her into the anchorage. Mr.
Brown bought the wreck and with typical Rarotongan flourishes patched her up, intending her for use in Manihiki.
In front of the government ketch Ranui lies the Debonair, fresh down from Tahiti. She is owned and sailed by Mr. and Mrs. Fisk who have brought her from England and are on their way to settle in New Zealand, taking their two small children along as well. The Fisks, recently in the Indian service, knew noth ing of small boat sailing when they left England, and confess that they know little more now after coming almost across the world. They admit also that they are still martyrs to sea-sickness and while at sea exist on a diet of drammamine and hope.
Over on the other side of the quay and only semi-detached lies the Stort-Brecker which can only be described as rakish.
She is owned and sailed by Dr. J. Evans, also late of the Indian service, while a young Norwegian, Frank Jensen acts as crew. Dr. Evans brought the Stort- Brecker all the way from Norway and has been over a year on the way. He is thoroughly enjoying a well-earned retire ment from the social and medical obliga tions of a colonial doctor by wandering round the world in his own time, and the more haphazard things are, the more he likes it.
With this congestion Rarotongan old timers are hoping that we are not sud denly visited with a tidal wave.
Mr. C. W. Rothe, general manager of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., Ltd. — arrived in Fiji in September for four weeks’ inspection of the company’s ac tivities in Fiji.