SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 151, 14 July 1937, Page 6

SAILING THE SEVEN SEAS

Cap. Pilar's Romantic Voyage to Auckland LEISURELY CRUISE AUCKLAND, Last Night. The 300-ton barquentine Cap Pilar, erstwhile a French fishing vessel and now manned with 18 young men adventure bound, stole quietly into Auckland harbour this morning as part of a plan which seems as elastic as the romantic narratives surrounding the tales of thousands of other sailing-ships and their crews. > Captain ' Adrian Seligman, ownercommander, takes life p.s he finds it from place to place. He knows not where he may be six months hence ancl his vessel took 15 uneventful days to. reach here from Sydney. . Mrs. Seligman, the captain's wife, appears to take life just as philosophically. Last September she aet out with her husband and his crew and after making calls at Madeira, Teneriffb, Rio de Janiero, the island of Tristan da Cunha and Capetown, she went on to Sydney in a motor-ship, came to Auckland and was waiting to greet her husband when he berthed. When the Cap Pilar leaves here in six weeks or .so Mrs. Seligman will join the vessel and its crew on their voyage. To-day the crew drew reluctant razors through their beards and prepared themselves for a holiday at some of New Zealahd's picturesque places, for after a few days spent in painting the upper works they will have from three to four weeks on leave. When they rcturn the Cap Pilar will go into dry dock for overhaul. Just when the vessel will reach England neither captain nor crew can tell nor are they Ibbs indifferent. . Perhaps they will. go to Tonga and other islands in the Pacific and if their plans materialise they may stay there six months, beat up' to Japan, thence across the Pacific to America and around to New York by way of the Panama Canal and so to Englaud. There may be some vacancies in the crew before the Cap Pilar sails. Captain Seligman hinted as rnuch for she is not carrying her full eomplement and the extra hands and the additional capital which the newcomers will bo asked to bring will make life a little smoother. There are always dues to be paid and stores to be- purchased and there must always be-a little mouey in hand for to-morrow and the day after.