Show A adventurers sail in pacific ocean for sea thrills boat owners seek escape from troubles and routine work HONOLULU white sails again sweep the windy roads of the pacific as seagoing adventurers match tiny boats and seamanship against vast str stretches e e s 0 of f 0 ocean c e an I 1 in n fragile a gil e h homemade 0 m amade craft or in luxurious yachts sea travelers are making ala moana basin off waikiki beach a bustling ocean crossroads all ali cherish a like goal escape from a troubled world some meet schedules they plan to span the globe and return home at a certain time others drift aimlessly answer ing the call of the south seas still a dreamy refuge from century strife almost any time the pacific sail ing log reads as a chronicle of ot ad venture there is harry pidgeon who sailed his 34 toot foot yawl islander here from his home port near los an geles pidgeon 78 and dean of round world small boat skippers has circled the globe twice in his lit tie craft he returned to honolulu on his third attempt at a world cruise the old seaman and his two wo man crew turned the prow of then their yawl westward seaman disappears nothing was heard of them foi for months then word filtered bach back that a gale had ripped the islander apart off espiritu santo in the new hebrides the battered but aured little crew steamed back to california on a Nor welgan freighter another old timer bucking the pa cefic 68 year old eugene S field of napa calif sailed a 40 foot homemade yawl single handed from san francisco he fought rough seas for 52 days on a 5 mile course A prune rancher with a yen tor for salt air he had worked eight years to build his boat the peggy in his backyard marvin J bigelow of san fran c cisco isco recently turned seaman after more than 20 years behind an ac constant countant s desk nothing is duller than wholesale hardware he said and cast oft off from the west coast in a midget sized yawl the 26 toot foot spring bok with one crewman thomas harrison a merchant seaman from capetown south africa bigelow made the voy age from los angeles to honolulu in 27 days last heard from here he and harrison were riding the high seas tor for south africa the foot schooner seaward stopped over on her way from san pedro calif to the society islands capt charles williams and his 22 passengers and crew crewmen merr said they hoped to lease a tropical isle somewhere around tahiti they longed to get away from it all for a couple of years or maybe longer 0 |