Yankee” Voyages
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DR 22 years, Commander Irving M. Johnson, of United States Naval Reserve, and his equally ious wife, have been sailing the gantine Yankee on around-the •ld voyages—they are now com ing the sixth. In those leisurely •Id wanders, they have been seen ny times in the South Pacific mds. From the Marquesas right ough to Indonesia, the Yankee thousands of friends and well bers. ut the Irving Johnson saga is ing. In a letter to the Pacific nds Monthly, congratulating the lisher on our Quarter-Century e, Mrs. Electa Johnson says: We plan that our next voyage be our last long one. We think ;n voyages around the world is •e than anyone can expect and, ;he end of the next one, we will e covered twenty-five years.
We think it is best to stop from ice, when things are good, as ing in the Yankee is not as well ed to the years after fifty as ■nalism, for instance. We will >orry to leave the Islands with the usual prospect of a return, we have always believed in leav port while we still wanted to myway we are going to retire to oat —a small one, about 44 ft, low-draft, midships cockpit, ?d to two couples, and we hope build in Holland or Germany spend several years in the Us and rivers of Europe and ibly the Mediterranean and ?an.
Ve hope someone will continue ail the Yankee on long voyages to the South Seas, where she jally in her element.”