Boats - Sailing - Ships
Sep. 05, 1968 - LONE ROUND THE WORLD SAILOR ARRIVES AT GREAT YARMOUTH. Lone sailor Wolfgang Hausner, 29-year old Viennese-born draughtsman, who sailed 22, 500 miles from Australia in his home-made catamaran, without radio, self-steering gear or inboard engine-arrived in the Thames Estuary on Tuesday, and then sailed another 100 miles to Great Yarmouth to meet yacht designer Erick Manners, whose 0 plans he used to build his boat. Hausner bought the plans in 1963 and worked in Australia as a crocodile hunter, sheep-shearer, and gold miner, to raise the money to build the boat. He left Australia last year and survived two hurricanes. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS: Young holiday makers watch as the Gorleston lifeboat tows the catamaran TABOO with Wolfgang Hausner aboard, into Great Yarmouth today
