SCHOONER’S LONG VOYAGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1925, Page 4

SCHOONER’S LONG VOYAGE.

TWITE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. The romance and adventure that lielonged to sea-1 ravel in tho past have not wholly disappeared, despite the advent of many vessels with which the risks are slight. Alter sailing twice across the Atlantic and then over the breadth of the Indian Ocean, tin* little schooner Cremyll, l-ll tons, arrived safe and sound ill Fremantle Harbour a lew weeks ago. The schooner is not more than n(l yards from stem to stern, and scarcely 10 feet in breadth. She carries two masts, one of which had m be replaced 011 the present voyage. Her crew, under the command ol ( upturn 111-kip.

numbers sow'ii moil. Klevoti mid a half months :i in tho Cromyl! lelt l.ivf I’po.il for I!in <le .1:1 iiioi'ii. Snoii iho schooner mot with si iff south mol n south wow hi 00/.r-s. wliii-h ;it limos developed min >trii;i :; - Hulos mul onto tlio skipper ninny :.n uneasy n 101 IK»ni s. Smliiio- smith. tho ( rrnyvil m loiiiitli roitohoil Hie ilo .1 :inioru. where lioi' foremast was replaced. I - "riiin horo, ('npiiiiii rnskij> intended tn imiko a liirooi trip to Australia. hut sailing south-east the (.'roinyll mot with siir-lt terrible u eat her that in .‘lO days she oovovoil mil more than about 300 to 100 miles. Fooil >u|ij)lic.. running low. Captain Inskip tli'fii li'i I to call at (‘a pot own for n del itioii-. Ahotu 101 l miles from Cnpctown. in April, tho Cremyll mot what was probably the worst storm in her existence. Tho vessel descended into hiioe troughs am! then rose perilously on the crest of the big rollers. It was an experience such as the captain of the little vessel, a man well eil with the angry passion- of the >oa. luul never before undergone. A month was spent at Capetown, ami then the Cremyll -:•■>( out on th-' remaining 0000 miles of the journey. For a week all went well, mul 1000 miles wore eovoroil. After that, however. more hail weather was experienced. half a down storms being passed through. The journey from Capetown. which should not have taken more than five weeks or so. tlni' occupied nearlv sixty days.