Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
Bruce Dalling was indeed a sailing hero as was witnessed at the “Great Outdoors” exhibition at Milner Park in Johannesburg. The Trustees of the South African Ocean Racing Trust (SAORT) had sent ‘Voortrekker’ by road to that exhibition as a thank you to all the landlocked people who supported him and the campaign.
The opening few paragraphs from the Rand Daily Mail read as follows:
“Bruce Dalling, South Africa’s transatlantic yacht hero, opened the “Rand Daily Mail” Great Outdoors Exhibition at Johannesburg’s Milner Park on Saturday before a record crowd for this show. A crowd of 5,565 attended the first day of the show.
“Standing on the deck of his famous yacht, ‘Voortrekker’, Mr. Dalling told the crowd that the great outdoors “is probably the most humanising thing man can come across in this world.
“The outdoors can serve both as a means of regeneration and as a means of testing oneself,” he said.
Profound words from a great man and sailor.
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE: 1968 10 07 – Rand Daily Mail – Bruce Dalling Archives – 003070 – S&A – OCR
