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THE CHINA-MAIL) SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1
THE ROUND-THE-WORLD SAILOR PREPARES FOR HIS MOST EXCITING TRIP
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Into battle and the enemy
is Cape Horn
WEST INDIAN roads are narrow. I was in the front passenger seat of are I seg of
world cruise did not end then and there.
Even so, it was' three hours and nine stitches later before I could row back to Sea Wanderer in Nelson's Old Dockyard at Antigua. Maybe the land is not all that safer than the sea.
Because of the resultant 'aches and pains, little work has been song for the past week on my 10-ton ketch ́in put her in rim for her journey to the South Allanile and her pendlig battles in the Roaring Fortles For I am going round Cape Horn.
by EDWARD ALLCARD
---reporting from Antigua, in the West Indies, whore his katch,
Ben Wanderer, is being made ready for the Roaring Forties
but some hardship and discom-
da
Les Vents was turned up-
Tristan was wrecked on furt make one appreciate more Cunha. Way down there, in Cosy the good things of life. I want Comer,
the windjammer to sall .to countries which sailors used to call it, the so-interesi me most, rather than side-down twice on one day in called summer is reputed to be merely see the lands which the Straits of Le Maire. windler than the winter. The huppen Lo lie on the easier wind is often of hurricane farce,
"Why go down there?" you may ask. And if you want to reach the Pacific, why not go via the Panama Canal?"
The
Simple
answer is simple. To begin with, I
bound Am
for Valparaiso to visit relations, and this port is sume two-thirds way down the west coast of South America, The voyaga from Punamn would he g and weary enough process against a prevailing wind and contrary current.
above all, this But,
route would mean missing a part of the world in which there are more uninhablied islands than anywhere else, And islands to me are as flowers to a bee.
Besides, what true adven- türer, given the chance. would not want to have first-
routes.
What about special prepara- tlurs for this sort of caper? Sen Wanderer is Dow 49 years old and was nothing much moru than a derelict when I bought hur for n song in New York 10
years ago.
By patching her up and by a major refit I have made her stronger than when new, and she has taken ma safely voyages to Morocco and the West Indies.
on
Nevertheless, just because she,
has now been sailed twice across
Anabita was rolled right over but sustained no serious dam- age. But imagine the muss be- low,
it was
rolled over Legh several Umes on hor fantastic run down the Roaring Forties,
One or two yachts have come back without such alarming tales to tell. One or two others have not come back. But with the right precautions and a bit of luck.
Rebuilt
One must expect to be rolled
What true advanturer would pass up this chance...?
rocky, areas a reliable muxillary unging, is the best intrROCO, My diepal has never let me down, yet, but, I will decar- boniad and give it thorough chock-over before I depart.
On poban, passages. I only use the engine to keep the batteries, charged, although, 1 might 试申 it to help mo woross the Doldrums as ap proach the Equator.
denorully, I am discarding standard
rucht
end atting renowing them with something moro robust the sort of. thing you would see on a Baling boat. Talpea
Hike fairleads. For indianco,
Those are
U-shaped fittings on the decit edge, which take the tub on anchor chain iline,
UT
Normally they are secured by two screws, and get ripped off under a heavy straits. £ am itt- ting heavy ruiter fairleads My twin staysails for down wuded to a steel plate secured wind salling aro madu of by bolts through the deck. Terylena Halyards are of wire or Terylene rope.
In order, to
pass quicker through bad areas and to allow me to sleep, I am fit.
Ung a second rudder entirely separate from the mala rudder.
This second rudder will be conbelled by a plywood wind- vane which will, within reason, freep the vessel on a course at uny chosen angle to the wind,
Exciting
It is an excluing business to be reatting for such a voyage, I plan to be all in October at the end of the hurricane season.
Meanwhile, the stitches are cut at my torn face, headaches almost gone, and I am back at work as painter, engineer, rigger, and sailemaker.
Thus, will be able to sall A single-handed sailor has to maximum speed day and be Д Jack-of-all-trades and
countless
hours at the helm, and it will give me the oppar funity to dodge out of the rain.
--(London Express Service).
the Atlantic and spent the last right over. So I have rebuilt at year or so sailing in the fresh my hatches, The cabin top laught without having to spend master of some. winds of the Caribbean, it does, to be strapped up with steci not mean that I can bllihely set angles. off round Cape Horn without special preparations. For look at My masts are short and stout, what happened to other small There is no inside ballast to vessels which penetrated these shift. perilous southern latitudes,
Overboard
hand experience of the dist- There was the
Heavy objects like batteries, water and fuel tanks, and spure anchors will all be bolted to the kud. I would hale to be chased
or snow to prepare hot food.
Discarded
In the strong winds and force
not
.round the cabin by 100b tides, rising up to 45ft, between case of Tau anchor or my coal stove! My high and low water in South culties of that persevering Hang, which was turned end two major sells, the mainsail Argentine, anchorages are Portuguese, Ferdinand Magel- over end. Masts, deckhouse, and and mizzen, have been made of land, whe discovered The owner's wife were swept over-
heavy named after him, board. They managed to reach saits I am now making myself
flux: the smaller head Strall now or the doughty Dutchman, Chile, and rentied 10 make Willen Schouten, who was another attempt to round the the first man to discover and Horn. But she was again dis- round Cape Horn?
masted.
Some of the places I hope to
Coimbra had a similar experi- visit may be difficult to reach; ence but lost a man, The yacht
NEW
handsewn.
Enough spare canvas will be carried on board NO that I would be able, to make new calls ut sen if necessary."
RONSON
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all that safe. So I have renewed my worn-out anchor chain with fathkans of teavier cable, Also I have 50 fathoms (300ft) line for the second anchor. of 2in, circumference Terylene
At sen I rely mostly on my but when in dangerous
sails,
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London Express Service
The Wild Patricia Lewis
One
talks...
I'M 100
OUTSIDE,
BUT INSIDE
PM TWO YEARS
OLD AND SCREAMING
London.
THE invasion from the East is.
consolidating rapidly. Tread ing on the well-heeled heels of Messrs Mankowitz, Wesker, and Bart comes bitter-sweet Georgia Brown-the latest show-business success to erupt from London's Jewish East Enders.
Bom Lillian Klot of White to Broadway, Georgia Brown chapel some, 26 years ago, Miss feels at last in a position to Brown gets her Arst real, long build something solid out of her, deserved break with the part of so far, drifter's life." Nancy 10 Lilonel Bart's musical "Oliver!"
hift
Ar arresting-looking girl with
Own home
"They're just intimate gather- ings to renew acquaintance with old friends," she told me the other night as guests admired slivery wallpaper ahd shocking-pink drapes of the living room.
The old friends included Mr Leon Goodman the's big, m adverilsing) and his wife, Viscountess Olga. Tarbai, Chan Canasta (who protested that he nover normally goes to cocktail parties); and the Earl Kimberler. with his constant date, actress Delphi Lawrence, Susan poured the champagne and passed the canapes herself -In the absence of a mán sbỏùt the house.
WHAT; NO
POOL?
FRANKIE VAUGHAN
FRANKIE
muit be the
agents'
house-
nightmare from coast to coast...
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In Brighton, where he is now. appearing, he asked .for "something quiet and remote with at least four bedrockis,” He eventually settled for house miles away, perched high- on the Downs at Worthing,
That's nothing," my man? my baby? my horne? Frankie, "When I was aiming Is this all I'm going to get?'"
'Let's Make Love'' In Hollywood. One of the friends who best I insisted on a house without a understands Georgia Brown is awimming pool. Believe me, Lionel. Bart.
/ asking for a house without a
He even wrote special lines pool in Hollywood is like asking into her number "It's a, Fine for a house without a bathroom. Info""Not for me the happy But I was frightened the kids
for the likes of
The troubled
In the end. Frankie found it. eskier to teach his kids to swim,
THOUGHT FOR
huge dark eyes, heavy black "I must get a pat of my home, happy husband, happy would fall inj hair, and a liking for beatnik own, she muttered. "I've never wife. Though i sometimes clothes and the mure colourful thought about tomorrow as long touches me, swearwords, Georgia began her as I've lived. But I know now such as me, mine's a fine, fine career singing jazz at 15.
that my rools are here, and life!"
I can't And any words that She was betting her heart though I usually stay with my out at a Jewish wedding when parents down in Whitechapel I capture better night-club owner, Al Burnett guess it's time I had my own temperament of this original and
my exciting new British star. heard her, changed her name; home, my own paintings, and 'signed her up for the Stork own kitchen.
.Possibly Georgia wanderings Room.
have purged a little of the gipsy from her soul, but I still don't read this as a sign of sottling down to convention.
Sho's a wild girl who lives on
Old days
BLOW AFTER BLOW...
THE WEEK
INTERVIEWED Róbert Bolt in 1957, the day after his first play, “Flower- ing Cherry,” had opened..
He said: "I don't like the
British writers
subservient in vita
re was, the old, Bockelak her nerve-ends, and-If someone JUST DIVORCED British idea that a
Berkeley
Callcane, and all that bit," she that starts on Friday and explained in her curious mid-rishes on Monday then she'll wicke has a plummy wit. Americana, If one is alive nat Atlantic, pocent. But it got me throw one herself.
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"My next booking was a drag, when she's happy...
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