The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-26
PEANOJS WEDDING TRIP
SCANTILY PROVISIONED
SLOOP
MANAGED TO KILL SOME GAME
The bride, However, Returned
Home by Steamer, While the
Young Man Sailed the
Craft Rack.

The celebrated voyage around the
world by Capt. Josiah Slocum in his
forty-fcot sloop Dauntless, has been
matched by the wedding trip Of Roy
Ovaett, a lad Of nineteen, writes the Sc
attic correspondent of the Call Single
handed, Ovaett sailed an eighteen-foot
sloOp from Seattle to Seward City, which
is near Juneau, Alaska. Then he put
about and beat his way home again, ar
irving here less than a week ago. Capt
Slocum sailed with a fully prOvisioned
and thoroughly equipped boat. Roy
Ovaett had scanty supplies, SO in money,
not stick Of spare canvas nor a foot
of extra spars and young wife to care
for. That, in brief is the story. Told
in detail the narrative would make a
book.
Ovaett is a modest young chap with
clear blue eyes and a frank smile. His
wife is a beautiful young woman. She
was Meg GOOdeu before her marriage,
and the long months at sea have only
added to the charm Of her face
The young couple were married early in
last July, and a few days later. the hus-
band went to Frank Faber, VINO owns
the Brighton boathouse, and rented
slooD named the Ultra. He told Feber
he was going for a wedding trip and tho
slooD was provisiOned for a two weeks
cruise
The Ultra left port on July % last.
Three weeks later Faber received d 1T
ter from Allard Bay, in which Ovaett an
EOunced that he was going to take mis-
wife to Alaska, and that he was not COM
ing back.
From the day Of the departure the
Ultra was not spoken by any craft. She
disappeared as completely as If she had
SUM, to the bottom Of the Pacific. And
that is what in time people came to be-
lieve was her fate
Mrs. Ovaett, prior her marriage. mad
lived with her grandmother, Mrs
Goodell, in little cottage close by the
waterfront. Mrs. ;iocdeu gave UP her
grandchild as dead, and young Ovaett's
family mourned for him as one lost to
them forever.
A week ago the Ultra sailed jauntlIy up
the bay and dropped anchor off tho
Brighton Boathouse. Many Things hap
pened during the long voyage to Alas
ka. There were storms and head winds.
Provisions ran short-periously short at
times. Once they lived for two - - on
q handful Of clans. On another occasion
the Ultra staggered along in the teeth
Of gale until her trysail parted, and for
! thirty-nine hours this boy stood at the
tiller, holding her head close to the wind.
Had the Ultra fallen off she would have
upset.
Sitting in his cosy home this afternoon
| Ovaett told the story Of his wonderful
cruise along the shore OF the North Pa
cifc to Seward. Alaska. After working
mis- way out into the ocean from Puget
Sound he took what is known as the
inner passage to Alaska. That he was
not wrecked a dozen times was due to
vigilance and the numerous sheltered
hooks along the irregular passage.
His two weeks provisions We're made
| to cover a much longer period by the
| practice Of economy and the addition OF
| fish and deer meat. Ovaett had no
| trouble obtaining plenty Of fish, and when
| the meat larder ran low he resorted to
the old-fashloned plan Of lacking for
/ deer. There are many places along the
coast even now where deer MAJ be kill
| ed with comparative ease. Ovaett had
gun with him. and owing to the neces-
good results.
| The sloop touched at Allard b q from
| which point Mrs. OVaett was sent home
| by steamer, while Ovaett sailed home
| without assistance.