Show Ocean Hermit Prepares for Trip to South Seas in Newly Launched Ship By RALPH RALP United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS June 18 The IS-The Thc II ton 10 sloop has lias been launched from the thc French naval construction yard on the thc Seine at Sartrouville for Alain Main Gerbault hermit of the seas and within a few months the lone mariner mariner mari marl ner net will vill be off again acain in his bis desire to put thousands of or miles between hImself himself himself him hIm- self and civilization The cruise this time will UJ be bc to the South Seas where Gerbault was re received received re- re by the natives as a king and even today possesses a 1 h harem rem dancing dane dane- lug ing girls and a cocoanut orchard The Thc II is especially de designed designed de- de signed by Gerbault for long cruises and is fitted with so few comforts that only a hermit could enjoy travel In it The exterior Is far more costly and elaborate than Its interior With a deeper draft than the thc first the new boat will boat will be better at sea but will not be able to penetrate penetrate penetrate pene pene- the lagoons and ride over reefs reels as the first boat did The cockpit is like lUe the opening Inan in inan inan an Eskimo canoe barely two feet across It Is fitted with a flexible I covering so that when the seaman sits in his pit he can fit the covering I tight light up to him and keep the boat dry i inside The vessel is divided into two to cabI cabIns cab- cab I Ins and also has has' space spate for storing water and provisions for 15 weeks at sea Gerbault has never been bothered bothered bothered both both- ered with a a. fastidious appetite and I the provision lockers are fitted to toI I carry earry simple canned foods and fruits The sails arc are cut after atter the lines of ot ofa ofa a Marconi sloop easily tended by one man Gerb Gerbault will test the thc yacht acht this summer r and by winter may start from the Mediterranean on his second second sec see ond lone cruise of the world starting start start- lag ing east this time instead o of west If |