News Of The Small-Ships
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I Years Ago:
■ night of November 22, 1913, lan unfortunate one for the ns Philp Line —though it was ps before head-office received the s. The steamer Muniara, of it 1,000 tons, purchased early in [ as the Volunteer, out on a nal voyage from Sydney to ert, Ellice, and Marshall Islands, wrecked on Ebon, Marshalls.
Hnmanded by Captain I. R. dley. with Mr. C. V. Wood as b, the ship was in control of Second Mate when she went up he Ebon reef at about 10.30 pm. esh north-east trade was blow and the ship was soon pound leavily. The boats were cleared r but all hands remained with ship meanwhile. By morning had swung broadside and as it clear that she was doomed a Ing was made at the settle e ship’s launch was then de fied with four men under the id Mate to obtain assistance Jaluit. A week later the
lania, from Hongkong, arrived
[ Jaluit and all hands were i off and eventually arrived in Sydney with first news of rreck.
An Inquiry found that the Second Mate had made an error in naviga tion. Years later, during World War 11, he was Second Mate in Zealandia when that ship was bombed at Darwin. The crew were being brought south by road in trucks when, crossing a severe bump, the Second Mate was thrown to the road and killed.
At about the same time, Captain Handley was murdered by the Jap anese at Tarawa. Muniara’s Mate, now Captain C. V. Wood, is to-day ’ in charge of Dymock’s nautical book and chart-correcting agency in Syd ney: and her Third Engineer, Mr.
R. L. Waddell, is now Burns Philp’s Engineering Superintendent.
Suva R/T Service:—The Mari
time radio-telephone service in Suva has always been somewhat confused. Instead of a single Suva coast station providing all shipping services, there are two stations. The Suva Post Office maintains contact with all small craft within the Group, and, on another set of fre quencies, the Cable and Wireless station near Lauthala Bay serves vessels outside local waters—wand ering yachts, the odd small Pacific tramp-freighter, etc.
In October, Cable and Wireless
|" lno ™ ced ? Change in frequencies lor this service as from November 1 The station will continue to lister £ or shi P s on 6,280 kc/s at 0400 and 2300 GMT for short periods but will now answer on 4379 3 kc/s at the 0400 GMT schedule, and on 8811.5 kc/s at the 2300 GMT schedule
The changes comply with an in ternational frequency reshuffle which has been proceeding over the past several years, and which seems to have created even greater pande monium in the Pacific R/T service than formerly.
Again The Gibson Girl;
The disappearance without trace of Joyita, reported elsewhere, provides another unhappy opportunity to stress in this column that very few Pacific ship-owners are availing themselves of at least one inex pensive safety measure that is to hand —the war-surplus Gibson Girl aircraft-dinghy distress transmitter.
Considering that these fool-proof, water-proof, compact sets are avail able for under £lO in Australia, and that they could save the taxpayer a fortune in air-search bills, it is dif ficult indeed to understand why local shipping authorities in the main Island ports do not insist that every small craft on an open sea voyage, carry one.
Here are the facts on the Gibson Girl: In size it is rather smaller than a 4-gallon petrol can, but moulded in on two sides to form a waist —hence the name. In use, the operator sits in his dinghy with the transmitter between his thighs. A heavy webbing strap passes round to secure the set in this position, thus holding it firmly so that one hand can be left free to wind the
handle which provides the power, and the other hand to adjust the set, and hand-key if desired.
Engraved on the case are the in structions. The set is kept in the wheel-house where it can, if neces sary, be immediately tossed over
board in a sudden emergency..' completely water-tight and i Its bright orange colour maM/ readily seen and recovered. I quires no batteries, all power ' provided by the hand-t u r generator. (Continued on Pae'
On the front is a small door that opens revealing a spool like a fish ing reel, containing the long braided aerial wire. In another container which should be kept fastened to the transmitter, is a silk kite which will fly in a very light breeze. It is attached to the aerial and paid out.
The operator, who requires no knowledge whatever of radio, merely winds the generator handle up to a speed at which a small indicator lamp lights, and he knows that he is “on the air,” automatically mak ing distress signals on which an air craft or ship may “home.”
Following a yachting disaster in New Zealand waters several years ago, the virtues of the Gibson Girl
were clearly demonstrated to yachts men.
Some previously considered the sets over-rated. The Radio In spector and the Royal Akarana Yacht Club of Auckland therefore arranged a special test from the Hauraki Gulf. The results, published in a New Zealand yachting maga zine, showed just how valuable the Gibson Girl could be. In broad day light vessels hundreds of miles away picked up the signals—and at night performance would have been vastly better. As a result, all cruis ing yachts belonging to the main yacht clubs in New Zealand are now required to carry a Gibson Girl
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news (top to bottom); "Lorraine", Reuters Noumea 209-tonner. (Photo Thornton). "Happy Return" bound Zealand. A late message from Papeete that some crew members had walked and caught the aircraft to their n. "A'oniu", of Tonga, which headed for repairs following an engine break- Niuafou. (Photo by Jack Thornton).
when cruising off shore. The clubs have purchased their own sets— and they are hired out, at a small fee, to the users as and when re quired.
They could, and we believe, should be widely used in the Islands. There are later models, operating on high frequency as well as on 500 kc/s.
These are, no doubt, expensive to purchase new— all airlines and air forces use them.
But the obsolete models, transmit ting on 500 kc/s only, are highly effective with the kite aerial, and are readily avail able from disposal stores. We know' of one Wellington, NZ, firm which sold many at £NZS each, com plete, in new con dition. They may
still be available there. Sydney nrms advertise them at from £A3 to £AB, less the kites, which are an essential part. Sydney dealers found that there was more money to be made from selling the ex cellent aluminium-framed box-kites to school-boys than there was to be made from the transmitters which no one seemed to want.
Government sales of other sets are constantly taking place in Aus tralia, in lots of a dozen or so. They are an item to which every Island ship-owner should give some serious thought.
The New Zealand yacht clubs obtained their supplies by an approach to the Government dis posal agency, it would seem to be m the interests of the various South Pacific Administrations to similarly arrange that supplies be available to local ship-owners. The RAAF and the RNZAF are vitally in terested in this subject, and there
[?]aki trader John D. Harrington's aquisition, the ex-Dutch yacht Seas", hauled out for conversion to cargo carrying. The use shown has just been added.
Photo by Mrs. Nancy Phelan.
fore would probably be fullll operative in any such schemox
Safety Regulations:
are indications of a general tigi ing up of safety regulatiom small-craft navigation in the Isl Certain regulations are exx to come into force in New O waters soon. In the Cooks ; concerning small-craft navih was on the agenda of the s Legislative Council meetiJ October. Our Solomons c o spondent reports some develop}' there. In future all native cutters in the Central Admiii tive District which includes G£ canal, the Florida, and I Groups, must be registered wiiv District Commissioner.
They will be classified and I with permits to carry only stin. quantities of cargo and numlfr persons, on specified routes. . proceeding away from the coc any island, each craft mustr« water and food for all handsa least twice the estimated dif of the passage, and powered i must be similarly supplied wir oil.
TlMBER:—Latest victim French Oceania ree f-po)« marathon is the 241 GT, years-old MV Vaihinano, rei a total loss—to the insurant, pany—when she went ashri Rimatara, Australs, at 3.30 i October 11, Captain Arthur i
presiding.
This vessel was built at A California, was powered withl hp Enterprise motor, and ow Societe Commerciale du Pacm Papeete. Crew, passengem cargo were saved.
The loss was attributed interpretation of the toe signal from the bridge engineer on watch, while thn was under manoeuvre closes, reef.
Japs In Trouble:— Alffi.
manoeuvre close to the re: with less apparent legal was a Japanese fishing vessee finished up on one of thoi islands in the southern Lam Fiji, on the night of OctoWx The vessel, of about 150 ttj the Mei Maru. But somethrl also happened to anothri Kuaei Maru, five days earln sprang a leak—perhaps fn: other reef—and sank in tij area, her crew of 20 beinn transferred to another crafli Maru.
The Ongea stranding j ported to Suva by the mot ft Kovo Maru, which also repao two other craft, Zuiyoh Mt 1 Azuvna Maru, were process the rescue.
A RNZAF Sunderland with r Harbourmaster aboard, fleve survey the situation. Thth possibly vessels of the Pas*
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na fleet, though a Japanese tuna at skipper indicated in Brisbane I October that other fleets are erating in the Coral Sea, lomons, and Gilbert and Ellice sas from Japan. (See photo else iere this issue).
Rhey Only Seem Big:—A New
aland oceanographic researcher, :k from studies overseas, de cked sea-sick travellers’ tales of gantic waves” of upwards of 100 from trough to crest.
Vork carried out by the research p Discovery 11, equipped with pate measuring devices, showed gently that in very heavy Atlantic ather the highest waves recorded re 42 ft. Estimates of their height re always much greater than ual, and the research showed p waves of 50 ft are extremely e.
Resuming Patrol:—The
tish Solomon Islands Protect te’s 110-ton patrol craft Betua, apleting a refit at Sariba, Milne f, Papua, returned to Honiara in ober to resume duty. The vessel i under command of Captain VI. Thorsen, Port Officer, Honiara.
ELPING HAND:—To assist the flican Melanesian Mission in its
fund-raising drive to finance a new 100-tons, Southern Cross VIII and another smaller craft, Shaw Savill Co. agreed to throw open their new passenger liner Southern Cross for inspection by the public at Mel bourne in October. A fee of 1/-
per person was charged. Southern Cross VII, Idle for the past 15 months, still lies in Sydney for sale.
Schedules Maintained:
Since the handsome luxury passenger schooner Te Vega entered
he Honolulu-Papeete service (August PIM ), Captain Omer Darr has strictly maintained the published schedule, and is confident that the tervice will prove a business success ind fill a need for the travellers.
Etablissements Donald Tahiti iandle bookings at the Tahiti end — ind in Auckland.
[Still In Trouble:—The Lord
Jowe-owned HDML Flying Cloud kas had a bad year. Commissioned f year ago to carry her owner’s hrgo from Sydney, engine trouble yas experienced on the several byages made. Then there was udder trouble, and the vessel was brown on the beach in a heavy low in March, with more damage. [By September, Flying Cloud was pady to be relaunched, when nother blow came up, heavy seas weeping in and throwing the lunch off her blocks.. Result: hull gain stove in.
Florence In Disgrace:
Tie 95-ton schooner Florence lobinson, idle and for sale in apeete for a long time past, has Ben removed from her berth, stern > the waterfront road, and moored l “rotten row,” at least until she an find a buyer.
NOUMEA VISITORS: —Refitting i Suva recently were two Noumea essels—possibly the last two to go lere from NC as the new 1,000-ton oumea slipway will soon be in srvice. First to arrive in Sep imber was Lorraine, Agence euter’s latest acquisition, 209 GT, L. 4 ft x 22 ft x 7.8 ft.
Built in Cornwall in 1944 as a andard-type trawler and named r aid of Pinto, she was acquired in alta by the present owners in 1953. he was one of a very large number ! trawlers built in England during le war for the dual purpose of ine-sweeping and other war duties, id as replacements for the de eted fishing fleets. The type was inerally unpopular with fishermen id many are still for sale in Eng nd.
The other vessel is Orsom 111 hich Institut Francais d’Oceanie cently purchased for oceano aphic research work. She is also iw to be used as a training vessel r New Caledonia boys. Of 75 ft erall she was built in Australia as purse-seiner, then acquired by r. Gubbay, of Santo, as Bateman’s iy. He sold her in November, 54. Her refit should be completed ’ late December.
Time For Parting: —T H E
Jll-remembered ex-naval GPV pe vessel, Ruena, one of the first mmercial craft to return to the ►lomons trade after the war, ould be washing the last of icific waters from her hull soon, impletely transformed into a hos- ; al vessel for the Andaman Islands Iministration, she should leave the id of Storey & Keers, Sydney, late >vember, and will be delivered by
Captain Max Stanton, one of Sydney’s—and the Western Pacific’s —best known “de livery” specialists.
Ruena was acquired by the Common wealth Government from Fairy mead Sugar Co. early 1955, and is being
Mr. Marcel Marinacce's floating trade-store "Deutgan", which has been undergoing a very extensive refit in Sydney.
presented to the Indian Goveie ment as a gift under the Colorri Plan. The Andamans, in t western Indian Ocean, are Indii territory.
Change Of Ownership'
Ta-i-Natoba, well known 44-to 4-years-old auxiliary ketch in Fiji trade, has been sold by ownr builder Captain A. R. Smith Kadavu buyers. Captain Smith plsJ to settle at Tabuta, Vanua Lo on a plantation formerly owned J Captain “Wal” Wilson, ex-harboc master at Levuka.
Ta-i-Natoba, 48.7 ft x 18.5 ft x: ft, was built at Kadavu by Capti Smith and “Skipper Harry” Willia* who pitsawed the timber. T ketch, which is powered with a hp Gardner diesel, was ba b damaged by the seismic wave wlr struck Suva Harbour on Septemr 14, 1953, but was repaired and rigged.
“Pom Pom” Stripped:—H
dictions made in the Cook Isla* press that Maui Pomare should sume service before Christrn appear to have been uno optimistic. A great deal of acco; modation had to be stripped ouu give access to some 40 deck plae two hull plates, and sundry ot< replacements. Auckland tipsters i predict February—which will pr ably mean April—as resumpc date.
Another Name-Change
September we reported that Johi.
Harrington, the Cooks’ most ahead trader, had purchased visiting Dutch yacht Seven Seasi use in running his own cargo fi Rarotonga to headquartersa Aitutaki. The yacht is now hai out at Aitutaki, and the worM stripping out below to make room for cargo, and the construes of deck accommodation is neae completion. The yacht left HoD as Scaldis, was somewhere renae Seven Seas, and will now enter o merce under a Maori name withr English translation, Bird I Aitutaki. Dutchman Boun Mee; will retain the command.
Hms Viti Commissioned
HMS Viti, ex-RNZN’s ML-3555,, safely delivered to Fiji’s new in establishment at Bay of Isis Suva, in October, in time fon commissioning of the base. Esco north by HMNZS Kaniere, SDML was commanded by Lit Commander S. B. Brown, with I Lieut. C. A. Stinson and six o ranks, and will be the base’s stSv ship.
The new Volunteer Reserve also known as HMS Viti, was od ally commissioned by His ExcelU the Governor of Fiji, Sir Rc>
Garvey, Kcmg, Cvo, Mbe.S
October 21 In attendance was Rear-AdnJ J. E. H. Mcßeath, DSO, DSC,, Chief of Naval Staff in New
land, within whose area of respon sibility Fiji lies.
' Bearings Of Tidings:—The
lea gave up two battles with in presting messages in October, The irst appeared to be a prank by a Japanese cadet aboard the Taisei \[aru. [William Muller, of Yepoon, near lockhampton, Queensland, finder of he bottle, had the Japanese message ranslated to read, “SOS, Taisea ffaru. Help Us. Taisei Maru is ship i Hell.’’ [Queensland Customs Department, xamining the message, said that hey had no record of a Taisei Maru n local waters —but only a few [eeks earlier the Japanese training hip Taisei Maru had paid a good rill visit to Sydney and sailed for fepan, so this seemed the likely iurce of the message. i The next was even more interest ig. Found by a school-boy on 'angimoana Beach, south of Wan anui, NZ, this bottle contained a lessage indicating that it had been lunched together with 195 others, n April 1, 1903, near Kerguelen sland, south Indian Ocean, by a terman Hydrographic Institute ex- Bdition lead by Erich von Drygalski.
None could say how long this Dttle may have lain on the beach, >vered by sand, or how many mnd-the-world voyages in the Soaring Forties’ it may have made jfore its discovery, but the 52-years :d card was despatched to Ger iany, and schoolboy Roy Bould re vived the thanks of the German Bgation in Wellington.
NEW PILOT BOAT: —N am e d llote-11, Papeete port authorities ive taken delivery of a new 14ns, 12-knot pilot launch. Built at Westminster, BC, by John Manly & a., the craft is a standard-type w-boat, powered with a 200-hp M diesel, and measures 46 ft x ;ft x 8 ft deck to keel. It is iderstood that the launch was de rered as deck cargo.
Manganese Loader:— Lau
ka may soon have a conveyor belt stem for loading manganese ioard overseas ships. Lautoka )wn Council has given approval r Metal Traders Inc. of New )rk, a firm with the largest in rest in this mining in Fiji, to tablish the 800-yards long loader, would be made up of independent ctions, each driven by electric otor from power supplied by a rtable generator. Each unit would portable and readily removed 5m the site when not in use.
Loading time for a 10,000-ton ssel would, it is estimated, be re iced from the present three weeks about ten days. The loader would st about £20,000.
WRONG BROKER:—Ship-brok
lis keen in Sydney. The same ssels are often in the hands of a imoer of brokers. We recently
credited Captain Kennedy with the sale of Norman Flare to Mr. Oscar Newman, of the New Hebrides. That transaction, we are now advised, was completed by another equally well known broker, Don Reed, to whom our pardons. Captain Kennedy sold Babinda to South Pacific Shipping Co.
Bjarne Halvorsen Expand
ING ; —The well-known Sydney boat-builder Bjarne Halvorsen Ltd, has acquired the nearby old-estab lished yard of W. L. Holmes & Co, McMahon’s Point, as a result of ex panding business. The Holmes yard has recently been turning out sturdy fishing launches and harbour launches, as well as smaller launches for Island clients.
On October 28, another 56-ft copra scow, named Kaia, was de spatched from the Bjarne Halvorsen Berry’s Bay yard to Steamships Trading Co., Port Moresby. Mr.
Halvorsen flew to New Guinea on a business visit several days later.
Improvements At Taiohae:
—The residents of the Marquesas are pressing to have the Messageries Maritimes liners load and discharge overseas cargoes at Taiohae, as in pre-war days. About 18 months ago a fine concrete warehouse capable of storing 700-800 tons of copra was completed at the inner end of the small concrete wharf.
Recently further funds were voted in Papeete to lengthen the wharf so that the larger schooners can lie
longside. Lighters will also be able ) handle cargoes between wharf id overseas ships at the anchorage.
GOING. . . GOING. . . Months ago we referred to a convoy of little ships which would shortly head for
the New Hebrides. Each month a check has confirmed that they are still on point of sailing—but early in November the fleet still lay in Sydney Harbour.
The vessels are Mr. Marcel Marinacce’s 211-ton Deutgan, which came south for refit last March, a 56 ft x 16 ft twin-screw steel barge owned also by Mr. Marinacce, and
Fiji's new Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve station, "HMS Viti", at Bay of Islands on Suva Barbour was officially commissioned by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey on October 21.
This Public Relations Office photo shows Commander S. B. Brown, officer in charge of the [?]ation, reading the Commissioning Warrant.
a 48 ft x 18 ft single-screw woodeJ barge owned by Mr. Georges Rolam of Emae Island, and name Anaconda.
Full details of Anaconda appearr in July PIM. Mr. Marinacce’s uii named barge is of a standard formerly in military use but rebui to suit the copra trade. Powero by a pair of 32-hp V 8 Thornycro diesels, she should carry 60 tons copra. There is a house aft accommodate five.
Both barges have rather low fre board. It is understood that ti) delay in sailing has been due to td marine authorities viewing the lot open-sea voyage for this type vessel with some disfavoi< Obviously, with the hurricane seasE now here, this disfavour is likely harden. Only alternative would the costly deck-freighting to Vili KETCH OVERDUE: Australia newspapers reported on October that a RAAF bomber was o searching for the 11-ton kett Holy dream, eight days overdue a 72-mile passage from “Longdo Island in the Admiralties to anotll unnamed island. The report pt sumably meant Longan Island the Ninigos. The ketch had twes persons aboard, including two Euj peans. (Later located by RAAF)..
MADANG EVENT:—For the fr time since the war, a foreign sit is currently undergoing refit in Australian-New Guinea port. T vessel is the 90-ton steel Netherlas New Guinea vessel Cycloop. Mads Marine Workshops Ltd., one Madang’s two slipways, is handlf the job. Pending completion ol< slipway being built at Hollano other Dutch vessels may also coc to Madang and other Territd slipways.
News of Cruising Yachts
• Auckland-Suva Yacht Race: Mootedb
several years past, the Royal Akarana YV Club of Auckland has now completed pq for the first Auckland-Suva yacht race,,: commence next May 12.
The race, which should prove a popq event, will be raced under International YV Racing Union Rules, plus a comprehensives of rules and safety regulations set out by\ Club. It is understood that every yacht n carry two-way radio.
Equipment may be loaned where not aim installed, and the fleet will be escortedb a mother-ship, possibly a RNZN vessel, race will have no time limit. Full detailsa available from the Secretary of the Cludi Auckland.
Eleven yachts have signified their inten; to enter at present, but there will probf be many changes by May. If successful,, race is likely to become a biennial eventt • SOLACE, whose story was told last mor was successfully refloated at Palmerston Is! on October 1, prepared for sea, and arn at Rarotonga October 12. Commander C planned to sail for New Zealand a few later —and return to the Cooks next May \ • SKOAL, wrecked at Haave Bay, UaHf Marquesas, on August 9, is now the pro|c of the local people. Yachtsmen's friend, , McKittrick supplies the full story: The Tel type ketch had a new 10 hp Coventry o installed prior to leaving Panama. She del
aiohae for Papeete via islands on August 7, leeting strong headwinds. A few miles off ahuka Is. next day, a chain tie which held oth peak and throat blocks of the mainsail ave way, whereupon it was decided to run I to Haave Bay for shelter and repairs, iding to 60 fathoms of chain and rope, ivner Shakely and companion Linvill went shore to stretch their legs. Shortly there fter the rope parted and the yacht quickly rounded on a lee shore, but was undamaged.
A kedge was run out and progress was sing made in hauling off when the kedge lie parted and the yacht again went ashore, now being nightfall. By morning the yacht as broadside on, and a rock had penetrated le hull.
By chance Madame Bazin, wife of the Ad inistrator, accompanied by other people, just en arrived over from Vaepae to collect birds' igs, and sighted the yacht from the plateau tove the bay. Madame Bazin thereupon sent message to the Administrator and a big mg of men soon arrived.
SKOAL was refloated with the aid of drums, it only after further damage had occurred, le Government cutter towed her round to lepae, where John Shakely, surveying the image, wrote the yacht off by presenting her the people, who will no doubt repair and e her.
The yachtsmen arrived in Papeete aboard hooner VAITERE on September 26, where ey expressed their keen appreciation of the ndness and assistance given them by the irquesans, and especially by the Administrator. • RAROTONGA SAILING CLUB held a well pported annual meeting in October, in eparation for what promises to be a keen ason. Office bearers are: Patron, Resident mmissioner Mr. G. Nevill; Commodore, Official cretary Dare; Vice-Presidents, Mr. McKenzie d Mr. M. Baker; Secretary-Treasurer, Mr. iDonald. Sailing was to commence in vember on Ngatangiia lagoon. • VARUA, William A. Robinson's handsome peete-based yacht, cleared there September
19 for Honolulu, arriving safely on October 5 after a record passage. Mr. ( Robinson was reported bound for the US to complete work on another book. • PHOENIX of Honolulu, reached Suva from Pago Pago in October and was to clear for New Zealand. • MOANA, of France, visited Rarotonga and Aitutaki in September, clearing from the latter island on September 28 and arriving at Niue October 4 en route to Nukualofa. The five keen spear-fishermen forming her crew caused excitement at Aitutaki when they landed a 450-lb, 8-ft long, girth groper with the aid of the local people who shared the catch. • LITTLE BEAR, of San Francisco, clearing Suva early October met very bad weather on the run to New Zealand, and arrived at Russell 19 days later. Buzz and June Champion hope to remain in New Zealand. • NORDLYS, of San Francisico, after a 7days stay at Rarotonga, cleared there Septem ber 25 for Pago Pago via Aitutaki and Penrhyn.
The big schooner carried a special consignment of stores to Penrhyn. • RICHARD & JOHN, bound for Gisborne, NZ, via Papeete, cleared Balboa October 8 after repairing hurricane damage suffered between Kingston and Panama.
• Happy Return, Ex Elsie (Rnli-648),
which cleared Balboa August 24 for Hokitika, NZ, via Papeete and Auckland, arrived at Papeete October 8 after an uneventful passage. • NEW SILVER GULL, of Sydney, is at present at Balboa. This 43£ ft ketch left Sydney December, 1947, visiting New Zealand, Rarotonga, Papeete, Samoa, Hawaii, British Columbia, and recently coastwise south to the Canal. Mrs. Scott, a registered nurse, and Mr. Scott, an engineer, have employment at the Canal at present, and will later sail for the West Indies. Mr. Scott will also be re membered at Lord Howe, Norfolk, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Tasmania, by some old-timers. He
cruised to those places in the yacht UTIEKAH in 1927. • NAUTILUS, a 110 ft motor sailer, other details unknown, cleared Balboa early September for Guam via Micronesian ports. • WANDERER 111, in which Eric and Susan Hiscock completed a three-year circum navigation last July, is to be on display at the National Boat Show, London, in December. • WINDJAMMER'S loss on Easter Island, reported earlier in the year, will be recalled.
Owner Peggy Poor, now back in the US, had an interesting article in the July 30 "Saturday Evening Post".