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del Rey in October, 1970, settling into a berth at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after cruising down the Mexican coastline, through the Panama Canal and exploring the coastline of Venezuela and Colombia and the islands of the British West Indies and the Bahamas aboard the 54-foot wocden yawl which had won the 1926 Bermuda Race with designer Alden at her helm and a schooner rig. “Malabar V1i,” one of a dozen and a half boats personally owned by Alden at faunching, was offered for sale by the Streeches who left her in Fort Lauderdale and returned to the West Coast, Dan to Dana Point where he began selting boats, and his dad to the family home in Arizona. “This man who catled himself Mike Selzer decided to buy our boat,” Dan said, ‘and he'd looked at a tot of boats. He may have bought ours because we were willing to take his camper as a trade-in, ‘This was about two months after Cocper had made his getaway from the airplane. "Selz:r drave his camper to my folks’ home in Arizona, and they spent a lot of time visiting before he took off for Florida, My dad says Selser mentioned he had worked as a smoke jumper.” Six weeks after Selzer delivered the camper “nearly new, wita only 7,000 miles on it,” Dan said the F.BI, turned up at the Streech bome “and the agents said the man we Ienew as Salzer fitted the deseription of Cuoper pertectly. The FB. ren alse sid some of the money Cooper bailed out with had turned uy in Las Vegas.” “Malahar VII" with new owner Mike Selzer has never ines 1 2 Swhere, Dan added, BACK PACKING IN FRENCH POLYNESIA Dan wes 0a his way to the Tahiti airport after three weeks of hiking around the islands of Tahiti, Moorea. Huahine, Raiatea ard Bora Bora with a back pack. He'd gone from one island to z.nother as a passenger on the copra boat ‘“Yapora Ill,” hiking days and sleeping nights'ca Use beaches. He said the land-crabs didn’t chew on hin (the local rumor that keeps visitors fram camping on the, beaches) and very few mosquitos took a bite: “I was taking Vitamins B i2 and B 6 and I understand if you do that, the mosquitos aren't interested. Anyway, I enly got one or two bites a day.” He spent about $300 in three weeks (plus $750 round-trip aic fare from Las Angeles} and most of the places where he camped were near native huts “and the Tahitians brought me food.” He recalled buying “mostly bread, with lots of peanut butter and jefly.” . in his back pack: a sleeping bag, a bedshect, swim fins and mask, Stcrno and freeze-dried food, one pair of long pants, one pair of cut-offs, a swim suit “and three or four shirts.” On Bora Bora, Dan spent two days reading a ship’s log kept by Hans Fleish “at the Oa Oa, or perhaps you spell ir Oahoa Hoicl. Haus caters to visiting yachts and has free hot showers for boating people. Then be asks them to write about their voyages in his log. Some people even draw pictures, T couldn’t stem pene Pia aT ey ORT Mae, Aonight 2. thir hen Lon thowe tp ota CT Toy, revitlivd. 2hat’s unusual, resid. 2 te fe. be ce dutus, where a room or bungalow may tun as high as $95 3 night and the Gverfade is ahout $50 with two meals. encyemcanincan DB Cooper-14594