Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-27
COUPLE SETS SAIL
!. FOR WORLD CRUISE
IN 5FOOT YAWL
Capt. and Mrs. Carl Justice
to Garry Washington
Yacht Club Pennant.
PLAN RANDOM ITINERARY
WITHOUT SET SCHEDULE
Caribbean and Devils Island First
Ports for Ship Built by Two
Voyagers.

Bound for strange seas where adven-
ture and romance beckon, Capt. and
Mrs. Carl Justice of Washington sailed
down the Potomac River yesterday in
the ship of their dreams, a 35-foot yawl
which they built themselves, on the first
leg of q voyage that may take them
anywhere.
Their tiny craft rightly christened
1.-THE Explorer" the two undaunted
sailors viii set its helm for the open sea
after leaving Norfolk and head toward
far southern waters on an uncharted
course that eventually will carry them
around the globe. They will go where
wind and fancy take them.
A group of friends babe them god
speed as the little ship cast of from the
dock of the Washington Yacht Club.
Wherever they go, the pennant of the
Washington Yacht Club will go with
them, flung from the topmast of the
Explorer. In anticipation of their
cruise, Capt. and Mrs. Justice recently
were made honorary members Of the
club
For the crew of two, the voyage on
which they embarked SO hopefully yes
terday means the realization of years
of planning and sacrifice. Some years
ago, in old Cristfield on the Eastern
Shore of Maryland, Carl Justice and his
wife dreamed of making such cruise.
In the yard back of their home they
built a stout little sailing craft. Into
each plank, into each frame, went
piece Of the dream, and in time the
boat was completed.
Fire Endangers Plans.
Then came catastrophe. Fire swept
through the little village and the busl-
ness that Capt. Justice had built up
with years of struggle went out In
flames. The boat remained and tnat
was all. Bracely they took stock OF
their plans. There were things TO De
purchased for their boat ana re-
serve supply of money was needed pc
fore their dream voyage could come
true. They had planned to sell tneir
shop and thus finance the trip, put
these plans. too vanished in the smoke
that rose over Crisfield.
So they sailed away in the Explorer
and came to Washington to start NE
and planning over again. Here they
found employment. For nearly ivy
years they worked and saved.
Their ship is of the same model as
that of Harry Pidgeon, famous skipper
of Islander in which he circumnavi-
gated the world some years ago. The
tiny vessel is but "a feet in length and
of q 1O-foot beam. Her sails were made
by Pruitt of Crisfield. The Fruits have
been sailmakers to baymen for genera
tons.
The cabin of the Explorer is lined
with equipment of the sort that adj
venturers on the high seas require
fishing tackle, guns, cameras, nets. sea
anchors. a Sextant. There is medi-
cine chest and reserve rationS, ana
books to while away the time-mostly
dealing with the sea.
Mrs. Justice to Be Navigator.
Mrs. Justice is to be the navigator
of the Explorer. A skilled sailor, she
spent all of last Winter studying navi-
CATION to At herself for this job.
Upon reaching Norfolk they will tie
I'D the Explorer while 1t is reprinted
and finishing touches made in prepara-
ton of voyage that may take couple
of years. When the Explorer dips her
prov into the, Atlantic it VIII head
southwark to the Florida Keys across
the Windward Passage to black Haiti,
to Porto Rico, gem of the Antilles;
through the Virgins and into the
shoulder of South America where 1t
juts into the Caribbean.
They plan to anchor off Devils Island,
the dreary French penal colony, and
then proceed 10 ITO ue JanelrO EaSIer,
perhaps, will find them on the Pacific.
The Explorer has no set schedule. Cocos,
old rendezvous of pirates, holds a lure
for the two sailors, and they will cruise
about at random among the pearlers
and traders of the Orient and the South
Sea Islands. Wherever sail and wind
will take them they intend to go, with
out thought of timetables or established
routes.
There will be times, of course, when
the monotony of never-ending ocean
motions will be interrupted by visits to
well known and little known ports,
where they will mix with civilization
and send picture post cards to friends
back home.
1t was with hearts set on making
their dream come true that Capt. and
Mrs. Justice watched Washington fade
behind them yesterday as their bark
rippled southwark down the Potomac.