Monthly

Pacific Islands Monthly

The Cruel Sea, P. 4

Registered at G.P.0., Sydney, for transmission by post as a newspaper.

January, 1969

News Magazine Of The South Pacific

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Our Cover

The cruel sea makes another claim.

In an expanse of loneliness, where vast ocean meets vast sky, the broken and lifeless trimaran "'Waka Toru" drifts hulls up, as the "Moanaraoi's" crash boat moves towards it shortly after sighting her. The trimaran, with eight aboard, had been missing for three months when she was dis covered by the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony vessel north of Lord Howe Island. This photograph was taken from the bridge by "Moanaraoi's" master, Captain Peter King, whose comments on the finding are to be found in our report on p. 28. Trimarans are popular sailing craft in the Islands, but a criticism of them is that they can overturn — and stay that way.