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Show 4 B Dtblktl Ntws, ihUKiUMi, mmi u, ij Coast Guard warns Utahns on canoe trip By Gordon Eliol White News Deseret Correspondent Washington N C. -SILMINGTON, Robert and hirley Haycock C.eedy, of Helper, Utah, plan now to start their voyage across the Atlantic on Friday, from a beach north of Cape Fear, North Carolina. The pair o! I'tahns are readying their sixteen foot outrigger sailing canoe for the trip wuh is expected to cover 3,7.0 miles with a landfall in Portugal in June. W Coast Guard officers with Mrs. Haycock on Tuesday and attempted to dissuade her from making the attempt. She told the News this morning that she had been invited to ride out of the Cape Fear inlet aboard the Coast Guard cutler for a look at the Atlantic. She said They are going to take me out beyond the ocean buoy and show me how rough the Atlantic is and try to scare us U S. met out of going." trying to find a suitable, inexor emerbleeper pensive locator transmitter gency which she could use to call for help if the small craft got into trouble. "The only one I saw yesterday was too expensive, "she said. "It cost more' than $200 and I dont have that kind of cash." She said also that the radio set was too big for her craft. Wlothers trying to locate a sextant for navigating the craft, but so far had not found one she could afford. She said repairs to her Volkswagen in Richmond, Va., last week had hausted her funds. temi) gu gfflteQpfiiMKg (Stagy ex- The canoe will have no stan- dard radio for receiving broadcast time or weather I don't signals, she said have the room in the boat for all that sort of thing and I definitely can't afford it," she said. She did say she was looking for a radar reflector a kite-likdevice ma e o metal foil which will show up on ships radar which would not be able to see the canoe otherwise. The Coast Guard said the craft would be like a log no one could see it in the heavily-traveleshipping lanes off the blast Coast. Mrs. said she Haycock might use aluminum cooking foil, fastened to the sail with safety pins, as a means of making the canoe show up on She indicated she might try to obtain an inexpensive lightweight ELT unit from a local airport. The transmitter would be helpful to ar.y Coast Guard search, as it would be capable of putting out a continuous beacon signal on international distress frequencies. ELT devices have been required on light aircraft for a year. They would have helped searchers locate the plane carrying Rep. Hale Boggs, which went down in , Alaska last year, but Boggs failed to pilot apparently carry the device. Day Fashion harmony in two parts Part d a Mrs. Haycock said she was a SILEX .screen print polyester knit pant tops e ; by PROCTOR- - ma - v Button front, zipper placket or V neck pullover styles. In combinations keyed to below. Woshoble. pants Long radar. I. sleeve styles $8.99 ce I'ne said Haycock Coast Guard was being "coopif you can call erative painting as black a picture of our chances as possible coopMrs. Gift-box- ed orchid corsage erative." at Coast Guard officers said Washington headquarters today they were considering what to do about the Haycock Geedy adventure, but admitted they probably do not have the authority to stop her. Experienced Coast Guard men here regard the voyage as foolhardy and likely to end in a costly search for the tiny boat. 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