28FT. YACHT
TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC
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(Received this clay at 9.25 a.m) LONDON, August 3
O. Barber (an Englishman) and A. Walter (an Esthonian) arrived at Plymouth in a 28 foot yacht, after what is claimed as a record trans-Atlantic passage of twenty-nine days from Newport, Rhode Island. During the trip the pair lashed themselves to the mast to prevent huge seas washing them overboard. They were without a chronometer and saw no sign of life for a week. A 14 feet shark followed them for days, six inches from the gunwale.
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 August 1931, Page 5
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