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News of Cruising Yachts
• LA PALOMA, purchased at Auckland and bound for the States under American owner ship, cleared Rarotonga July 17 for Papeete.
Maiao (also known as Tubuai Manu) 40 miles WSW of Moorea was sighted at 5 p.m. on July 31 and was under the keel shortly after midnight. Owner William H.
Wilson and companion Ron Hemler were landed at Papeete by the local fishing vessel HINANO, where Mr. Wilson was arranging salvage which he considered possible, though the yacht has a hole in her bottom. Mr.
Wilson's fiancee was to arrive in Papeete from Auckland on August 19, whereon the couple were to be married.
• SKOL (also reported as SKOAL), 30 foot of Miami, USA, was reported wrecked Havai Bay, Ua Huka Island, Marquesas, late July or August, according to advice j . ceived by the Papeete Port Captain. Owne Linvill and Shakeiy were safe and expect! in Papeete by schooner. The yacht was U signalled clearing Balboa on April 20, boui Brisbane via ports. • SEVEN SEAS (ex SCALDIS) of Hollan originally reported bound for New Zeala and Australia, was sold to Mr. John Harringto trader of Aitutaki Island, Cooks, early August, and renamed MANU. She now becom a work-boat, running Mr. Harrington's can from Rarotonga to Aitutaki, presumably uno command of Hollander Andre Boun Meestl who has been lonehanding it on the voyat • NORDLYS, Walter Johnson's 72 schooner bound for New Zealand from t US, arrived Papeete August 15 from Hilo, afl
Workboat
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The 40 ft. work [?] "Tagari" recently [?] plied by Lars Halvor[?] Sons Pty., Ltd., to [?] for use in Pa[?] waters.
a 15-day passage. The handsome schooner carries 9,000 ft. of canvas and a GM motor.
With Mr. Johnson is a crew of eight. • NANI, 37 ft. ketch, manned by marine zoologist Dr. John E. Randall, his wife, and small child, was preparing, in July, to clear Honolulu for Papeete, to spend a period of research in those waters. • LAMERHAK II is the name of the 23 ft. sloop flying the Egyptian flag, in which Joseph Havkins, mentioned last month, is now bound from New York to Melbourne and the Olympic Games via Panama and Island ports. b New York writer describes Havkins as thopelessly nearsighted, deaf in one ear, and crippled by hernia". He has already crossed the Atlantic from Spain, arriving in New York tbout a year ago. Welcomed there as a hero lie was flown home to Tel-Aviv by the Israeli iovernment and decorated by Prime Minister Ben Gurion. • JELLICOE, mentioned in July, name still jnchanged, cleared Cremyll, Cornwall, August 18, bound for Auckland. With 32-year-old .ieutenant-Commander Richard Bailes, is Mick ipiers, 25, and Michael Atkinson, 17. They vill attempt the Panama-Auckland sector in ine hop, presumably next winter, according to me report, though it was earlier reported hat Bailes' ambition was to visit Tonga. • ONRUST of Holland, with Dirk Tober and us wife, arrived in Auckland from Hobart on Suly 18, and back in Sydney again on Sep ember 3. Now engaged in the Tasmanian ishing Industry, he had taken advantage of I lull in operations to sail back to Auckland d pick up some equipment which he had eft there last year. • RANG), 42-footer being built by Mr. Mark nthony in Auckland, should be launched this jmmer and be seen in the Islands next winter.
Ir. Anthony is already well known as a achtsman in the Western Pacific. He has elped deliver two mission launches to the ew Hebrides in recent years. • MOANA of France, with owners Gorsky nd Pasquier and a companion, arrived at apeete July 15 from the Marquesas, in the >urse of a submarine fishing and photography ruise. • PHOENIX of Honolulu, mentioned last onth, cleared Papeete again July 20 for icorea, Huahine, Bora Bora, Pago Pago, and • LITTLE BEAR of San Francisco cleared ipeete July 21 in the wake of PHOENIX. • TAHITI of Honolulu, which arrived at ipeete June 5, cleared July 26 for Moorea, »ra Bora, possibly Pago Pago, and Auckland. • WAIMANA of Auckland was reported in la and for sale early August.
• Auckland-Suva Yacht Race: Auckland
ichts signifying their intention to enter this ce next winter include the 30 ft. cutter ANDERER owned by Tom Buchanan, the 40 . Marconi cutter JEANETTE owned by R. ikewell, and the 33 ft. ketch NINA. • An H2B-type ketch was reported prepar g at Whangarei, NZ, to head for Fiji early igust. • DAWN, 50 ft. motor cruiser of Sydney, rived at Nelson, NZ, on August 10. Owner Sleeman had three companions aboard. Plans fre to investigate fishing possibilities in NZ iters. DAWN was bound for Lyttelton. • A Chinese junk, manned by five Chinese d an American, arrived at San Francisco )m Formosa via ports on August 8. The inese plan a voyage round the world and II presumably be seen in the South Pacific due course. • SLOVEIG, 36 ft. cutter owned by the Ivorsen brothers of Sydney, having corn fed in the Los Angeles-Honolulu Race, was Id at Honolulu to Mr. Don Doyle of that rt.
t Sili Sataua, chief clerk of the bank of American Samoa, is to undergo a special one-year banking course of study in the United States. Mr.
Sataua joined the bank staff as a, bookkeeper-messenger ten years ago. He is married and has six children.
Tahiti Smash
The driver, M. Gleize r a well-known airman in Tahiti, and three pas sengers, Miles. Francine Goupil , Madeleine Philips and Dolly Higgins, were badly in jured when this car left the highway in Punaauia and somer saulted. The victims have since been re ported to be recovering, due mainly to skilled work by Surgeon Lancienn.