Junk Jinxes Johnson

ONALD JOHNSON, champion Pacific ocean drifter, set sail alone from Sydney on March 15 in his 30 ft. Chinese junk :ep Blue Sea". First stop: Honiara, BSIP. he junk was painted bright blue and on rd was a complete trochus fishing outfit e hoped to sell the junk and gear in the jmons as a "going concern" or failing I, go into the trochus business himself, n a blaze of newspaper headlines the junk ich he brought from Hongkong a year ago board a freighter) was towed out of the four and then, with a 30 mph southerly ind it, disappeared quickly over the zon. Johnson said before leaving that fitsmen laughed at his junk but in spite the fact that he had only cumbersome icse-type, lateen sails, and had never d it on ocean cruising, he was sure "that would be all right".

'ell, that was yesterday—and presumably yachtsmen are now laughing because this ning (March 16) the "Deep Blue Sea" wrecked just north of Broken Bay and es of the junk were strewn along the NSW ;tline. e would have almost bet on Johnson elves he has been involved in a ber of sea adventures—the most famous which was his drift of several months in from Hawaii to Fiji in what is now the fi|i-waters flagship "Tovata".