News of Cruising Yachts
pp. 115-117 · Read in the full issue
• ROMAYNE, of Vancouver, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete November 9, and was due to leave there for Auckland within a week. There were five Canadians and two Americans aboard at that stage. • BLUE SEA, 46-ft. x 36-ft. x 13*4 ft. x 534 ft. ketch of San Francisco, with joint owners Hank Taft and Gil Wheat aboard, was to clear Papeete November 3, for Rapa, Mangareva, Pitcairn, Easter, Juan Fernandez, Chile, Peru, Panama, and New York. The yacht which left ’Frisco May 28 had been in Papeete since August 7. Also aboard on clearing Papeete were to be Eduard Ingris, skipper of the raft CANTUTA which drifted to Polynesia from South America, and Juanito Bugueno, former crew-man of the rafts TAHITI NUI I, 11, 111, and Jackson L. Smith of Chicago. • MARILEN of Los Angeles, 60 3 /4 ft. x 14 ft. x 8*,4-ft. Alden ketch, which cleared Newport. California, July 4, arrived in Suva from Tahiti on October 28 and sailed again November 8 for Tonga, Rarotonga, Papeete, and South America. With owners Mr. and Mrs. E. Howard Gee are their children Geoffrey, Whitney, and Gregory, also Jan Twitchell, Peter Chick, and Vern Taylor— all of school age, on an “educational voyage”. • CRAIG-J of Los Angeles, only 20-ft. x 16-ft. x 6-ft. x 4-ft., ketch-rigged, with Dayton J. Lalonde lone-handing it, arrived at Papeete October 27 and was to sail
The “Lamerhak II” with Joseph Havkins. They are now in Port Moresby.
November 7 for Raiatea. Samoa, and Australia. The voyage com -1 from Los Angeles on June 4. This bas no auxiliary and is Marconi LEHUA of Auckland, 30-ft. ketch ed by S. Matheson, arrived at , NZ, from Nukualofa on November aboard: P. Ashcroft, of Whangarei, Garrell, of the US, who joined at !. This yacht lost her mizzen mast i Rarotonga and Nukualofa and south under a single mast. The commenced last May. :w SILVER GULL, after a long stop a, cleared there for Lord Howe Is.
Sidney on November 4. With the ouple for the run home were Messrs. ?oulton and Gus Smith of Suva. iyage commenced from Sydney about ■s ago.
OCHAB and Dr. John Franklen will probably head for the West via Islands ports and Panama from id next April-June. Some coastwise round NZ is probable before then, at inveterate travelling lone-hander, HAK 11. 23-ft. yawl, flying the flag, with Joseph Havkins aboard, in Port Moresby, on November 1. the five day’s trip from Cairns.
Queensland, Havkins let the yawl tself and spent most of his time leeks. ins’ lost LAMARHAK I six years shipwreck in Spain; sailed LAMAR [ across the Atlantic to New York; ntinued on to Australia via Panama ands ports. He was in Sydney in 1957, and has been in and about ia, working and sailing, until the continuation of his lone-voyaging, loresby, he will go on to Samarai, Carolines, Philippines Group and •re. >ng-range plan is to sail to Ceylon, scar, South Africa and then across lantic to Rio de Janeiro, by early South American river sailing will his attention then—he wants to the great Paraguay, Ucuali, and i Rivers, the boat being trailed d between the watersheds. [OONFLEET with Joe Pachernegg safely at Madang a month out i, having spent a week at Santo e days becalmed. The yacht will be out for a major refit while Joe s work as a professional seaman New Guinea coast.
IM, a junk, dimensions unknown, ngkok for the US about November Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, ealand, Easter Island, and Peru. t-US Army sergeant Robert Stevens wife and two sons, an American he-world cyclist, name unknown.
Thai engineering student named ote Banchakul.
IBIA, the junk which recently sailed longkong to Spain, has also been lUMBIA in some reports of the ERIDIAN, with Richard and Abbie i, for whom somebody was inquir the November issue, are just back >ane again “after a wonderful cruise Great Barrier Reef”. They’re happy. )ick Arrowsmith, for 30 years asso with coconut plantations in New who last year bought out the well- Messenger boat-yard at Rushcutters rdney, is now in the process of es ng a modern yacht marina there, jetty has been built out and piles for the mooring of 30 yachts safely o the jetty. Electricity is supplied boat and the usual public facilities ated ashore for yachtsmen. Use of rina is understood to be at the rate per week.