Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-11-19

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reached La Guayra he cabled
orders to the New York Herald TO
run a series of articles describing
that part of the Caribbean as a cruis,
ing ground for yacht owners. Since
then a good many yachtsmen have
followed Mr.. Benefits lead, but few
have got as much out of the trip in
the way of excitement and varied ex-
perience as did Frederick Fenger ot
Boston.
Accompanied by his wife and one
man crew. Skipper Fenger made a
specially designed schooner Diablesse.
Storms along the gulf waters, dan
gers of starvation and hardships of
long hours at the wheel were safely
surmounted; suspicious of being Ger
man spies were finally routed; mu
tiny on board was quelled. when for
q few days added help was taken on
board, and at last, in June, 1915, the
little 21-ton schooner returned home.
Nothing very exciting happened in
the first part of the trip except the
desertion of the crew" who feared
to cross the gulf stream. Captain and
Mrs. Fenger managed to reach Bimini.
and continued to Nassau, where a new
crew, in the person of one Jamaica
Fred" was shipped. and he stuck to
the end.
Ran Against a Revolution.
Il hoped to reach St. Thomas in
ten days." said Captain Fenger, but
first we ran into head winds and then
a calm. We were in a dead beat for
three and one-half weeks, except for
two nights. OFF the coast of Haiti we
ran into hard blow, in which our
jibs we're torn off while we were TAX
ing in sail. We hove to under fore
sail, and the next morning ran in un-
der the island at Port de Paix
There we found a revolution going
on. officers boarded US. headed by
the harbor MASTER
I'VE anchored with all our chains
out, and the officers took all our pa.
pers ashore. / was considerably wor
ried. fearing that they would seize
the schooner An American 80-foot
schooner yacht a year before had
been fred on in the same locality
They got away from Port de PaiS
all right, however, and made theil
way in heavy weather, along the
coast of Haiti and San Domingo and
across to Maraguez, Porto Rico. Then
they beat their way to st. Thomas
but before reaching that island they
ran entirely out of food and water.
Sails Blown to Shreds.
From st. Thomas we sailed to the
Virgin islands," continued Captain
Fenger. land ran across to St.. Eusta
titus, where the harbor master, whom
l knew, warned us that the weather
was growing suspicious and that the
early season had come when hurri
canes might be expected in the north
ern islands We stayed two hours
and then set out for Dominica, anC
thence to st. Lucia. Just as we wer,
under the lee of Martinique, the
weather suddenly became extremely
heavy. and our mainsail was rippet
along the foot. We put in a reef anC
kept on, from seven o'clock till abou
| 10 p. N.
y Then, without any warning, tht
mainsail suddenly blew itself al
to shreds. There wasn't enough lef
to make a patch. We set our storm
try-sail and kept on running. | haC
just turned in from my watch. whel
Fred yelled: Now de for'sIe dont
gone 1t, too. was almost a com
plete wreck. and we were beatins
about in considerable distress. Their,
wasn't any fear about it. Just excite
ment.
"AH quieted finally. however, an,
we got along somehow to Chateau
Belaire, and from there to st
Georges. Grenada. which we reached
on July s, 1914.