Seven Seas on a Shoestring , Sailing All Seas in the 'Idle Hour' by Dwight Long

Author:Dwight Long [Long, Dwight]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sailing, My, History, Islands, Ocean
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Published: 1938-12-15T16:00:00+00:00

With her new masts set and completely re-rigged Idle Hour was ready to set out again on the next leg of our cruise.

The exchequer had run particularly low by this time, and in view of the number of applications I had received I decided to take a paying guest with me for my run across the Tasman Sea. I would not be hampered with any immigration troubles on arrival at Sydney, for there are no such restrictions between the two Dominions.

My choice settled upon Ivan Palmer, a twenty-five-year-old man from Fiji, who had come to Auckland to attend the university. To my considerable surprise he solemnly lodged his last will and testament with a magistrate before we left the shores of New Zealand!

Just as we were about to leave, the British full-rigged ship Joseph Conrad anchored in the outer harbour, and her captain, Alan Villiers, came to see me. As he was going back aboard again after making a couple more calls, I suggested that we should take him out to his ship when we left.

Dozens of friends came down to see us off, and at noon, with Villiers aboard, we cast off our mooring lines and headed out into the outer harbour.

The Joseph Conrad was lying some distance out, and as we approached her it became apparent that we could not proceed alongside, for the yards of the tiny square-rigged ship would not clear my new 40-foot mainmast. I therefore anchored astern of her, and one of her boats took us to her gangway.

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