YACHT YVONNE'S ADVENTURES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1387, 13 March 1912, Page 5

YACHT YVONNE'S ADVENTURES.

' B—~ . TOPSAIL ALL THE WAY. (By TclesrapU—Press Association.! Chrjstchurch, March 12. Professor Scott's thirteen-ton (Thames measurement) yacht, Yvonne, 1 arrived at Lyttolton on Sunday from Port Chalmers, which port sho left on March a. Heavy weather was experienced after leaving Oamaru on the fifth. • By I a.m. next day tho patent log and plotting showed that the vessel must be close up to Jack's Point, Light, and, during a momentary breuk in the fog, the light was scon a quarter •of a milo distant. Tho yacht anchored with topsails still up in a calm in tho vicinity of the reefs, and remained enshrouded in tho fog till 9 a.m., when a light breeze look her into Timaru, where she arrived at eleven o'clock. •It took the yacht twenty-five hours to complete the run from- Oamaru to Ti- . mam, which, on previous occasions, she did in eight. She left Timaru at 11.30 on March 9, and experienced a very violent south-easterly gale, which sprang up at 2 a.m. on Sunday last, and which was accompanied- by thunder, lightning, and hail. The yacht was headed oh? shore, but the wind suddenly veered to the southward, before which the yacht ran ' well. On several occasions during the run up. 'the coast she logged nine knots per hour, although the decks were constantly awash during the trip. When passing 'through the worst of the sea, shortly before reaching Banks Peninsula, oil was used with groat effect, the crew stating that what had been angry and dangerous-looking seas were quickly reduced to a character that, gave them no anxiety. " This heavy weather-run concluded a cruise which was remarkable in that n topsail was carried for nearly tho whole of the voyage from Sumner to Dunedin, and back as far as Timaru, and illustrates that a small yacht, well-found and well handled, is practically safe, and is even comfortable under all ordinary weather conditions.