AMERICAN SCHOONER

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20727, 10 February 1939, Page 6

AMERICAN SCHOONER

VOYAGE FROM CALIFORNIA ! „ PARTY TO FISH IN DOMINION (By Telegraph.—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday Thirty-seven days out from San Pedro, California, the American auxiliary schooner Navigator arrived this morning. Owned by Mr G. Harton Singer, jun., a prominent Pittsburg banker, the 48-ton vessel Is under the command of Captain Fred Klebingat, well known in New Zealand as master of Mr Zane Grey’s schooner Fisherman which visited the Dominion in 1926. Captain Klebingat married an Auckland girl, Miss Phyllis Reid, who now’ lives in California. They have a seven-year-old son. The long voyage from San Pedro by way of Danger Island and Pago Pago was marred by only four days’ bad weather, two days off the American coast and two days off the New Zealand coast. On each occasion the vessel was hove to and rode out the storm well. During the heavy sea on the early part of the voyage the main boom snapped and a new one is being sent by the Monterey (due next week), in which the Navigator's owner is also arriving. The intention of the party is to spend two months in New Zealand, fishing various grounds and visiting the southern Sounds. In addition to Captain Klebingat the schooner has a crew of four. The cook became ill on the trip and was put ashore at Pago Pago but will rejoin the schooner later.