"Haul Away"

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 6

"Haul Away"

ANYONE who has sailed the waters ** of the .Waitemata — yes, "shining,"

if you must have it — and who knows the difference between a backstay and a jib boom, has heard of Charles Harrison Smith. ■'* ,

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He is one of the middle links between the real old days of yachting and. the present itifne, when there are as many craft which leave ail effluvia behind them bs there are others which are a dream x> t canvassed beauty and plough ithelr way back to their moorings each Sunday night without the aid of American fuel

C. H. SMITH.

Charlie, to give him his popular name, has sailed on practically every kind of craft which unfurls a sail and knows every nook or shelter m and out of the harbor — nort^i or south.

If his present interests are more of the earth than the briny it is simply that the good old days are not with us now and we none of us have discoyered the elixir of youth. In Charlie's make-up there are all those qualities of quiet doggedness which built up' our supremacy of the seven seas. His outlook on the times and tides of fortune is ever one of calm philosophy.