Headed his boat for the SO loot wide channel inside the surf Rt the southern end Lifting on a huge roller she took the shoot Riclng at 20 miles an hour like a speedboat throwing sheets of spinv to each side the pallant little crut shot out of the boiling surf into the smoothness of the channel beyond Problem Doherty put the tiller haid ov».i and Seas 25 feet high stood the little boat on hei tail but her little CHAPMAN motoi pul led IWe a Persian and pushed steadily onĪ tremendous surf on Narooma b i was the ncxL Unfamiliar with the Moruya entrance end seeing no lights nearby Doherty decided to keep going and make Narooma with the Narooma Light lo steer to It meant another 171 mile» but he kne the lay of the land lhere Light she was somcwheie off that port at about 7 30 n m in total dnikness PUP so thet In tead of making Moruya in diy Pm and 7 pm To add to sheer discomfort this misfortune and also the still rising sen delayed thi ¡tripped and went overside nine times between It was cold but Doherty soon dried himself dressed got under way again and then ran light into more kelp and so It went on In nil he.
Heavy head seas cut donn the PUPS speed ¡>nd Just past Bnteman s Bav she ian Into that nightmare oi boating men-floating kelp Torn from the rocky shore during the recent rough i eather the heasv weed fouled the propeller some times in strands ">0 fe t long and almost stopped The boat Nothln" dpuntcd Doherty stripped and went oter the side divin" under the stern to unravel the tangled mass nr I then coming up to breathe like n «hale -to use his own cxpiesslon until the propeller w\s cle^i Ric tinatlon tor the dav ws Moruya which ordln ' iilly would be easy travelling Fate however was against him She left Jervis B y on Thursday morning lune 13th and Piter an easy tun leached Ulladulla that afternoon Doherty spent a few diys here writing up poluto of Intel est and taking photos lei\lng again on Sunday morning lune 16th HI Gordon J Doherty s IG foot Cruiser Pup lowered svlth a CHAPMAN 21 h p PUP Entine Is now at I>crooma about two days travel from the Vlctoilan border icidy for sea and oily \ altlng for the
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