The flagshio at the Bluff regatta on New Year’s Day was the old Othello, which is now a dismantled' hulk, but was, in her day, a well-known whaler. The Othello’s claim to greatness, an old resident of the port recalled to a Southland Daily News reporter, was her record trip across from Melbourne to Bluff, the journey being accomplished under sail in four days or less time than the Moeraki and. Manuka take for the passage.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 116, 14 January 1926, Page 4
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