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Show WomanNavigates Ketch Around The World By TALBOT LAKE pACH YEAR, it seems. we have a story about someone who has sailed around the world in a tiny Boat. This year's is different, however, how-ever, because the skipper is a woman. wo-man. Mrs. Marion Rice Hart. Mrs. Hart has just returned to New York in .ier 90-foot ketch, the Vanora. from a 3-year. 30,000-mile 30,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe. This daring skipper took over command of the ship at Port Said, after dismissing four navigators for incompetence. She is gray-haired, gray-haired, bronzed and petite. When she arrived she was barefoot, wore blue slacks and a sweater and shell pink nail polish on her toe and finger nails. She picked up the polish in Auckland. New Zealand, Zea-land, where she acquired four members of the crew who completed com-pleted the journey with her. Paul Perez of Los Angeles, her nephew, and John Smith, cook, of Bath. E-.igland. were the only ones to make the whole trip with her. Three years ago Mrs. Hart, sister ot Mrs. P. Hal Sims, wife oi the bridge expert, decided to abandon her villa in Avignon. Prance, in favor of a vagabond voyage around the world. After months of searching, she found the Vanora anchored in the river at Cowes. England. A compact, snugly rigged craft, white relieved here and there with peacock blue, it was ideal for her purpose. Mrs. Hart had taken several daring steps in her life before this one." Despite parental opposition, she left -Barnard College before the World War to enter the Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology. Technol-ogy. According to Mrs. Sims, when Mrs. Hart was graduated in 1914 she became the first woman chemical chem-ical engineei in the world. Soon after entering the research department of the General Electric Elec-tric Company in Schenectady. Mrs. Hart was arrested as a suspected spy. Subsequently she convinced the authorities that the map of the West Point sector she had been drawing was for the use of the New York State Geological Survey. In September. 1936. the Vanora set sail for the Mediterranean. Aside from the rapid turnover in captains, whom Mrs. Hart eliminated elimi-nated once and for all at the head of the Suez Canal, the first part of the voyage was without incident. inci-dent. She said the first two skippers skip-pers didn't know their jobs, the third was only a temporary substitute, sub-stitute, and the fourth was too seasick to attend to his duties. |
