SEA BREEZES ON THE AIR
|T HE last time we went yachting the skipper told us to make fast the main sheet, and we tidied up his bunk. We didn’t know a main sheet was a rope. When he asked us to polish the tabernacle we were quite at sea because no one had explained that it was a brass socket. There is not much nostalgia, either, in recollecting that afternoon when, off the Kaikoura coast, we rolled about on a windless day, with every empty teacup, etc., rolling to and fro over the cabin floor. And all that perhaps explains why we like our yachting in small doses and preferably per book or photograph, But 7
Ruth France, of Christchurch, with her husband and son, makes a great part of her life one on the ocean wave. Mrs. France has often been heard over the NBS stations in talks about cruising round Banks Peninsula. Now she is to speak again, this time on her recent trip in the family Bermuda-rigged ketch Windswift from Lyttelton to Wellington. We have not seen the little ship but we understand that it is as comfortable as any small vessel can be, with a bathroom actually containing a bath. But we ‘leave it to Mrs. France’ to describe the yacht, and the trip, from 3YA at 11.0 a.m. on February 11, when the first of a series of six weekly talks will be broadcast.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 344, 25 January 1946, Page 17
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