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...flat broke when he got to Australia, and the longest leg, 1,200 miles across the Tasman Sea, was still ahead. Once more Major Hayter went to work. He put in two varied years laboring as a longshoreman, crawfishing, even drew pay as a hired hand on an outback farm before his bank balance was equal to re-equipping Sheila111. In mid-March he stood south again until he hit the Roaring Forties, off the southwest tip of the continent. There he simply "put in three reefs and set course east...
Measure of Need. At its best, the Tasman Sea is no pleasant cruising ground for yachtsmen. Crossing in autumn, Hayter ran into foul weather, saw only two days of sunshine in eleven weeks. In rough going, when he would normally have ridden out the blow hove to, he slogged ahead. He was running short of rations, had nothing but wet clothes and knew he was pitting his strength against time. He never spotted another ship. When he finally made a landfall on New Zealand's west coast near Karamea, he hoisted distress signals but no one saw them...
...voyage, the onetime staff officer allowed himself to boast only of his efficient staff work. A long five years and nine months out of England, he had miscalculated only once: when he ran out of food on the last two days of the last lap across the Tasman...
Perseverance. In Auckland, N.Z., Thomas Clark, survivor of nine air crashes, applied for a steward's job on the Tasman Empire Airways...
Japan must be kept off balance. Out of Brisbane, Australia into the South Pacific steamed a flotilla of seven U.S. warships-two heavy cruisers, five destroyers. Out of Auckland, New Zealand into the Tasman Sea steamed a flotilla of six U.S. warships-two light cruisers, four destroyers...