Yachtsman Lost On Delivery Voyage

fIIHE United States Coast Guard held an inquiry in June into the death A of well-known Honolulu yachtsman, Leo Woyshner, 33, who was lost overboard on a delivery voyage in the 29 ft sloop Splendid between California and Hawaii, about 240 miles from Honolulu. , £r,?- ° ther men on board ’ Keith Gray, 24, of Timboon, Victoria, and William Jarrell, 29, of La Grange, Georgia, reported on arrival in Honolulu on June 16 that Woyshner had injured his neck when he slid down a line from the sloop’s cross arm. After this he acted strangely and would not allow them into the cabin.

Next day Woyshner began raving and jumped into the sea, they said. They threw life preservers to him and Gray jumped into the sea to help him, but they could not get him back on board.

Woyshner was well-known in Honolulu for his solo voyage from New Zealand to Honolulu aboard the cutter Traveller in 1964.

He bought the 35 ft sloop Solono in Sydney in 1965, and sailed single-handed to Hawaii—although he had New Zealander, Gerald Griff as crew on the leg from New Zealand to Tahiti.

In September last year, Woyshner and five friends set out for California from Hawaii in a ketch which sprang a leak and sank about 1,000 miles out. They were rescued by a passing freighter and taken to the Philippines.