Dwight Long
Few can speak of adventure in the South Seas from greater experience than Dwight Long , who crossed the Pacific in a thirty-two foot ketch. He left Seattle in September, 1934; visited ex-President Hoover in San Francisco ; then sailed for Tahiti. He picked up a fifteen-year-old lad who became his Man Friday. Together they sailed through the South Seas and were de-masted in a hurricane 1,200 miles from New Zealand. His famous ketch was called Idle Hour, but the idle hours he spent in her must have been few.