Show LANDS IN 1114 U S NOW ivian MAN WITHOUT COUNTRY lone sailor Is held up by im migration officers los angeles another man without a country one whose only reward for an 8 mile cruise in a 19 foot boat has been a short stay behind the bars of the immigration station in los an has turned up on the west coast fred kebell rebell literally a citizen of no land sailed into los angeles harbor recently in his tiny crift craft after more than a year on blue water en route here from australia born in windau latvia when that land was a part of the czars busbia rebell went to australia twenty years ago but did not become a citizen of the land down under while he was away latvia became a republic and he an expatriate in 1931 he conceived the idea of his lone journey across southern seas to the united states and began to prepare tor for it by studying navigation in the sydney library he made his own sextant and bought three cheap watches for his chronometers he ile bought his boat a 19 foot cl aker built skiff with a large bowsprit and find a sloop rig and equipped it with a canvas canopy which could be drawn part way over the open cockpit as protection against long spells of rough weather he ile started out in december 1931 cruised through the southern islands touching at suva samoa and many other points and navigating and ban his little craft single handed at one stage of hia his long trip the cen ter board of his ship rotted away rebell repaired that and later in mid ocean successfully repaired one of his watches his ills library learned tion was eminently successful when he reached honolulu he ob tamed a 60 day distressed sea seaman man s permit he ile got under way again and headed for the california coast it took him 68 66 days to reach los angeles and as soon as he set foot ashore he was detained at the immigration sta tion because his 60 day permit had ex aired the distressed seaman had spent all of his 60 days at sea to add to his d stress his boat which he had steered without damage across thousands of miles of deep water was wrecked inside the los angeles break breal water by the violent storm which recently lashed the western seaboard william mcnutt the author came to rebell s rescue and balled bailed him out and the man without a country is now temporarily living in los angelea angeles completing plana plans to write about his ion long trip and incidentally planning another cruise |