[?]vs of Cruising Yachts

lIRVANA, 56-ft. Sydney cutter on a ruise, arrived at Auckland April 2 and I again in mid-April for Papeete. With laws was a crew of seven. (Arrived ja, April 22.) iKAWAI of Dunedin, NZ, a double-ender af sturdy construction 38-ft. overall, jarted Auckland for Papeete on April iHOE, 36-ft. staysail schooner of Van full details January PIM, reached Raro pril 22 bound Suva and Sydney, with le call at Tonga and other places.

OPIA, handsome 65-footer of Sturgeon \, has been seeking crew by advertise > NZ. Only well-financed men need or they have to find £Stg.l,3oo each cost of a two-year westward passage IS and then find their own way home first standing the fare from NZ to or Suva, where the yacht was likely te April. Fred Petersen may be lucky Fiis does nor seem like a plan that ipeal to most NZ yachtsmen.

NGOMAU of Auckland, brand-new 50- 1 ft. motor sailer built, owned, and by professional boat-builder Roy Lid th companions, cleared Auckland for ril 20 for a two-months shake-down Fhe yacht will return to Auckland then or a longer cruise to Polynesia.

ME-II and Danny Weil, well found and by the world's radio amateurs, set i the UK on a second world cruise 12, according to the BBC —so the md Rescue Services along the west ute may be alerted, if cruise-2 follows ; of cruise-1!

HUR ROGERS, 70-ft. x 16-ft. Brixham i-workboat, back in Auckland from Hebrides via Noumea and northern NZ e in April. Since departing several 0 she has suffered a profile-change, ise on deck and cut-down jib-boom, worths plan to sail north again by imn. )0 and Louis and Annie Van der Wiele m apology from this column, having e Belgian flag in the Pacific in 1952. iry we suggested in a moment of ess that TARASS BOULBA, now bound , might be first to bear that flag, n der Wiele told OMOO'S cruise story West in My Eyes" which was warmly in the nautical press.

FTY SARK, a big 73-ft. yacht, will make an Island cruise from NZ this fWARD of Whangarei, NZ, is to sail ica soon, thence eastward via Island South America.

SADER, 27-footer of Tasmania, cleared mid-February for the US via Welling and Island ports. Aboard are Barry , 19, and John Cripps, 22. They plan in NZ waters for a while.

FOUR WINDS (not to be confused French sloop, LES 4 VENTS), from :les arrived Honolulu in mid-April, pper, E. Cross, and wife, Jeri, with irnational crew of four, plan to re ; boat, sail inter-island, then on to ti. South Pacific and Australia. Cross write and do research in skin-diving > while cruising. His crew is inter two Australians, who will be home Imas, Brian (Chip) Cooper, of Perth, 1 Gunter, of Hobart, Tasmania; Griefziehl of Acapolco, Mexico, who see the world; and Mike Craighead n. Cross is an authority on diving, own school in California, and plans the South Pacific and elsewhere to

proceed with an educational exchange programme. THE FOUR WINDS is a staysail schooner, 60 ft. x 11.5 ft. The newest member to join the travelling Crosses, is Mrs.

Helen Robinson from California. • Jack Randell's NANI will soon be heading to the US mainland skippered by a very reliable man. Randell is back in Florida doing more work on Marine Biology and will not be returning to the islands for several months. • The Reynolds, aboard their PHOENIX, landed in Hilo, Hawaii, mid-April. They stayed there for a few days before going to Honolulu where they will remain for perhaps six months. „ M .. ciccta • Martin Vltrousic S FIESTA ran into bad weather in Hawaii waters and in mid-April was in a Honolulu dry dock putting on a new bowsprit and repairing other damage. . GEMINI'S owner. Jack Wheeler, has been in Palmyra but does not plan to slay much longer. Soon, he and his family will be taking the boat back to Hawaii. He is a ham radio enthusiast. • TAHITI, with owner-skipper Lorrin Smith, left Honolulu mid-April for Tahiti and the South Pacific on a cruise which might take him back to Hawaii at the end of the year— but may, on the other hand, be the beginning of a two-year voyage to faraway places. m nine unnu nc a • u 1,,.* U f. yacbt l w s due m Hon °sched !lpd AP for Tahiti and scheduled for Tahiti and other South Pacific ... . . . . • There will again be a big gathering of cruising yachts in Tahiti this year—at least 15 American yachts are expected, as well as

many from New Zealand and Australia. One of the first there this season was the Van couver ketch, SEA CHANTY, which arrived in March.

Tc .. . . ... • TE MATANGI, which was built on a mountain lake in Nevada, and is now in Hono lulu making ready for a long cruise to Tahiti and the South Pacific, will call at Raraia en route. The Ferguson family, which owns the ship, called her TE MATANGI AU RARAIA .ft the request of island friends e . y . W I M *f ke her Rara,a to u see

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,ulu in May and reach Pa P eete ,n July • RONGOMAU of Auckland, see elsewhere, arrived at Suva Anril at suva Apnl 28 • REVEL, 30-footer of Auckland, with honeymooning couple John and Marlene Smith ’".“ft M ° W ' li ' an,, 4pnl 2 ‘ afler a ,2 ‘ (iay passa ’ e • SOLACE, owned and sailed by Commander V. Clark, RN (Retd.), left Port Moresby on May 2, next call Bali, thence f>co< Is.. South Africa, West Indies and home. He has been 4£ years ®" ° f th * W ° Hd , a " d ??

P®L ts u *° e t ake - ano ,t b Jr ye * r t0 * Co, ! , P lete ,he ,ob He 5 been m P ' NG waters * or s,x months, Commander Clark has had plenty of ad venture in the 29,000 miles since he left England. PIM readers will remember when he was shipwrecked on Palmerston Island and how he s P ent a year there while the 'slanders helped him repair the 28-year-old ketch.

In the last months, while waiting for the SE season to begin in Papua, he has been conducting a school of coastal navigation for Papuans at Kwato Mission, near Samarai

Joseph Havavkins, self-appointed travelling salesman on behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, waves a cheery good-bye to Sydney, on April 22. He is continuing his lone-handed voyage in his 23 ft yawl “Lamerhak II”. Next stop is New Guinea, then Philippines, Far East, Indonesia, S. Africa, and home.