News of Cruising Yacht

e TAHITI YACHT CLUB: Mr. Martial I has been re-elected Commodore of the rew Tahiti Yacht Club, a position which he prior to the Club's decline many years Mr. lorss is a'so President of the Assemr Territoriale of French Oceania.

• Rarotonga Sailing Club Openedt

official 1955-56 season on October 24, wifi large programme of events on Ngatam

lagoon.

E Auckland-Suva Yacht Race, Schecb

for May, 1956, promises to be an evenir considerable interest, with an incre®: number of yachtsmen signifying their interl; to enter. Some of the number of oven; yachts currently in New Zealand waters i likely to be represented. • SOLACE, Commander Victor Clark's Emn ketch, was preparing to clear Rarqtongae Auckland via Palmerston Island late in Octet During his year on Palmerston while ; yacht was being rebuilt following strantfr Commander Clark put some of the local through a course in navigation. Three of 1 were taken to Rarotonga in the yacht, too their hand at sea*. SOLACE was to deliver 1 home again. • TZU HANG, of London, cleared Francisco October 13 for Honolulu, Farrii Island and points south, in continuation i world cruise. This yacht, manned by Mr. .

Mrs. Miles Smeeton and daughter, and Mr..- Mrs. Sikes, of Vancouver, came out to couver via Panama and the Galapagos t years ago, and the Smeetons have since farming there. The yacht, built in Hongg pre-war, is of teak construction, 45 ft. ove\ « LA POLOMA, stranded on Maiao Isa sold, salvaged, and rebuilt, was reportedb sale in Papete in November. This yacht 1 purchased in Auckland, NZ, and cleared t last June under American ownership. • RICHARD & JOHN, 60 ft., 21 ton kx rigged fishing vessel, bound from Penzis England, to Gisborne, NZ, arrived at Pane

vember 5, sailed November 8, and arrived Gisborne on November 22 to be met with ousing welcome from over 1,000 people. It I earlier (November 12) called at Rarotonga take on oil supplies. • LITTLE BEAR, Buz and June Champion's ft. ketch from San Francisco, entered Auck d November 7. The champions indicated that hey like New Zealand, and New Zealand likes m, they may settle there. > TAHITI, of Los Angeles, manned by Messrs, th and Schroder, arrived at Auckland, 'ember 3. Philip Schroder planned to re i home immediately, but Mr. Smith has er hopes. He will seek permission from the v Zealand authorities to settle for a time Anchorage Islet, Suwarrow atoll, in the ks. > TAIHOA, 30 ft. Tahiti-type ketch, recently chased in Lyttelton, NZ, will be one of the ters from Auckland at the end of the >ent hurricane season. The yacht is jointly led now by Mr. Bob Fenton, 27, formerly Hobart, and Mr. Gunars Dambe, 30, a dan who went to New Zealand several rs ago. They will head for the American ific Coast. » FIESTA, previously unreported from any nd port, slipped into Pago Pago, on October from Honolulu. Flying the Panamanian —probably the first yacht to cruise the ific under that flag for very many years— big 72 ft. x 17£ ft. x 8 ft. schooner was ding thence for Papeete later in October, ard is owner-skipper Martin J. Vitousek i a crew of five. he yacht had spent a month at Fanning nd and all hands were most appreciative the hospitality shown them there. Presum -1 contrary winds forced the yacht to the tward, as a windward beat from Pago Pago ’apeete is not usually done by choice. - MOANA of France, continuing her west id circumnavigation, arrived at Noumea y November. A stay of a couple of weeks planned by owner-skipper Pierre Pasquier his men, before heading for Port Moresby Indonesia. The aim is to reach St. >z, France, via Suez, by next August.

MERIDIAN, 44 ft. cutter of Port Royal, aica, manned by Dick and Abbie Stafford, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Stark in yacht VIXEN arts unknown, were in Cristobal in Septem preparing to clear for the Galapagos, and umably points west. MERIDIAN planned lear the San Bias Islands for the Galapagos October.

STORTEBECKER-IM's former owner, Dr.

Franklin-Evans, lately practising as a co in New Zealand, plans to buy another t in England soon and may again be seen he Pacific. He cruised from New Zealand anada in 1953, selling the former German t there late 1954.

HALF SAFE, Australian amphibious jeep, in Sydney late in November. From there Carlins planned to ship themselves and back to Calcutta to rejoin their circum jation route. They will cross Burma, Thai- Indo China, and by water to the ppines, Formosa, Okinawa, and Japan. 5 call for clearing there next May for the Mans and Alaska. Ultimate target: New by December, 1956.

NORDLYS, of San Francisco, called at Pago in mid-October, went from there to Apia Suva, and then doubled back to the east, ed at Rarotonga again on November and visited Mauke on November 22. ;r Walter S. Johnson with his 7-man crew led to clear again for Papeete a few days to get away from the hurricane zone.

TROPIC SEAS, 36 ft. ketch in which John veil and family sailed from the US Pacific I to Australia a couple of years ago, and a year ago, sank at moorings in Sydney lovember 28. The hull had been stripped for refit and no great damage resulted, veil now employed in Sydney, expects to another book titled "Sailors in Diapers" shed in the US this month.

MORE DRIFTERS: Four men and a woman

left Lima, in Peru, early m December, on a balsa raft hoping to drift to the South Pacific Islands.

It is the third expedition of its kind to leave Peru. Each party used the Humboldt Pofyn«ia'° V ° ' is,ands of Thor Heyerdahl led the first on the balsa raft kon tiki. The second carried William Willis, with his cat and parrot, to the islands aboard his raft s| ete hermanitas The KON TIKI reached French Oceania, and Willis got as far west as Pago Pago.

The adventurers now at sea are Eduardo Ingris, 45, head of the expedition, a naturalised Peruvian; Mirko Guerecky, 29, a Czech radio operator; Andy Rost, 27, a Dutch seaman,- Joaquin Guerrero, an Argentine sportsman and Natalia Mazuellos, 29. after a s g ac S re3 S Tnca flowed CAN,UTA Ha hopes to reach Polynesia in aboo. 80 days. He will then make for Australia to set up business.

tl The remains nf thp Rpv aik ot .<- L t remail ? s °J. t j ie . Rev - Albert MacLaren, who died in Papua in 1891, were taken back to the Territory in November and reinterred near Dogura. He was the first Anglican missionary in Papua and died from Malaria a few months after his arrival. He wa s originally buried at Cooktown, Oiippnsland wueensiana. r p p* Rnhprtc an iHminis - *. r ' Jr' • K ' ODe ' rts > Admims trative Officer on transfer from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and Mr. G. F. C. Dennis, of the Lands Department, BSIP, returned to Honiara Irom leave, on October 10 - Mr. Roberts has been posted as District Commissioner, Central Solomons.