MYSTERY OF YACHT'S VOYAGE SOLVED

Chronicle (Levin), 20 June 1947, Page 3

MYSTERY OF YACHT'S VOYAGE SOLVED

■ Press Assn.-

By Telearaph

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jR-eecivcd Thursdav, 7.40 p.m. SYDNEY, June 19. . ThG liiysterv sui'rouiiding the arrivai of the Marconi-rigged eutter UtieKan II at Coff's Harbour last night and tHe subsequent eollapsc of the sole occupam was cleared up todav. The ma ti, whosc mcmory is stiJl blank and who has no recolloetion of whero he came from or wtiat happened on tlie voyage, is Gordon Taylor, aged 30, of Newtown, Sydney. His wife, who is hurrying to Coff's Harbour, said Taylor left Broken Bay about 40 miles north of Sydney on the iirst slage of a holiday trip to tite Barrior Reef in a yaeht which he purchused for the purpose. She was to jom lier husband at Brisbane. Mrs. Taylor advised the poliee that hcr husband thougli an experienced yachtsman suffers from lieart troubte and the efl'eets of service in Uie R.A.A.P. The yacht spent four days at sea in heavy weather before reaelnng Coff's Harbour. An eariier tuessago stated that the yacht, which arrived at Coff's Harbour, on the Northern Coast of New Koutu Wales, last night, had only one person aboard — a bearded and distrauglit man who could uot remember whero he had cottle from. He said he thougli t he had b rough t the cutter siugle-hauded from Wellington, a voyage of over 1300 miles, but he could nol 1 >c sure. Lalcr he told the poliee that he might have eome from Bydncy. Coff's Harbour lishermen commentecl on the expert mattner in which tlie vessel was bove to, but later noticen that something appeared to be wrong. One man rowed out and was so concerued at Taylor ;s coudition that he brought hbu asliorc. Taylor said that the last thing he reincmbered was tiio harbour at Wellington (New Zealand, that he had eaten notliing 'but bread for some days, and that the lirst sight of the Australian coast was a iighthouse. He had followed tlie coast north and had trailed a iisK" ^ \uneh into 'Coff's Harbour as ni .fc*^