RACE ACROSS ATLANTIC

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1938, Page 2

RACE ACROSS ATLANTIC

TWO BROTHERS TO COMPETE. GIRL PAT SKIPPER’S NEW THRILL. Skipper Osborne, whose voyage in the Girl Pat in 1936 thrilled the world, is to race his brother Jim across the Atlantic. Their craft will be 20ft sailing boats, and they will each be singlehanded. They will take no navigating instruments. They will have no mechanical aids. Skipper Osborne, talking about his plans recently, said: — “I am doing this because I am uneasy and uncomfortable on land. Old sea-dogs have told me that not only is the voyage by the North Atlantic impossible in a 20ft boat, but that, without navigating instruments it is more or less suicide. I have sailed in every weather and in almost every conceivable type of craft. With me, it is a pure matter of instinct. I don’t even need stars to guide me. “There have been many crossings in small boats between here and New York, but no man has ever taken such a small boat direct over the North Atlantic. “There won’t be much sleep for either of us during the voyage,” Skipper Osborne laughed, “but what I propose to do —and I have no doubt Jim will do the same —is to put out a sea anchor when I am too tired to carry on and let the ship ride for a few hours with her head in the wind.”