YACHT CAPSIZES
YOUTH DROWNED. ACCIDENT IN EVANS BAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. A member of the crew of an Idle Along yacht which capsized in Evans Bay about 3.30 on Saturday afternoon was drowned in trying to reach the shore. The body has not yet been recovered. He was Samuel John Flaws, aged 18, Rangiora Avenue, Wellington. It is believed that the yacht was running before the stiff northerly wind with its spinnaker set when it capsized. The two other members of the crew were wearing life-jackets, but Flaws did not have one on. The accident occurred about 400 yards off the southern point of Shelly Bay.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 3
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