News of Cruising Yachts

• Los Angeles-Papeete Race: A

Los Angeles-Papeete Race which had been planned to take place in June-July this year did not eventuate due to lack of in terest and to other shorter and long established Pacific Coast yachting races taking pride of place. • COLLEGIATE REBEL, a big steel schooner with long overhangs, said to be about 105-ft. 0.a., dropped in to Pago Pago with a broken main boom in June, and following repairs, sailed for Ponape.

According to our information this yacht sailed from a Florida port last February and after transitting Panama Canal called at the Galapagos and Papeete, where a number of crew left, and some more left at Pago Pago.

The skipper then was Mr. Ingemar Eng dahl, and the yacht was apparently on

e sort of scientific collecting expedition lie Carolines, where she had contracted ie in July.

WILD GOOSE was in Papeete in July, to be of 300 tons, this motor yacht variously reported as from Seattle Vancouver and owned by a lumber on named Wyman, who was aboard members of his family. Future move ts unknown.

TE MATAI, an American yacht with persons aboard, called at Penrhyn d Papeete on June 30.

TIBURON of the US still lay in Pago in July and owner Ed Vessey was ring from a badly poisoned leg origi ig from a coral scratch. Ed was still ng two crewmen to help continue the ?e.

SILVER CLOUD with John Grieve, Miller, Selwyn Daniels and Ray nas aboard, arrived at Suva from on July 18. This 36-ft. Auckland r was to continue westward to Vila, aea, and Brisbane at the end of July had been made at Moorea, Huahine, tea, Tahaa, Borabora, Maupiti, and Pago between Papeete and Apia, lart five-day run was made from Apia iva.

JANIS, 28-ft, cutter of Sydney, with a Slovacek lone - handing, reached on July 19 from Apia and was to nue west at the end of the month calls at Noumea and Brisbane.

WANDERER of Auckland, with Tom Nora Buchanan and Pat Ganley d, was to clear Papeete about July or Huahine, Borabora, Rarotonga, a, Suva, and Auckland.

WANDERER Hi with Eric and Susan ck of England aboard on their second was at Rarotonga early WHENCE and the Lopez family of the rnyed at Suva on July 17. This yacht Apia June 20 but called at the Lau

Group en route, claiming stress of weather.

As Apia is a Rhinoceros beetle infested port and Kanacea in the Lau is not a port of entry, the Fiji quarantine authori ties were investigating this call in July.

They have announced that strong action will be taken against yachts which contra vene the regulations and thereby endanger the coconut plantations through inad vertent importation of the dangerous Rhinoceros beetle pest. • BABBOON, the US-owned schooner which has been in Suva since late last year, was to clear for California about July 27. Aboard were to be Harry Mc- Pherson of Suva as skipper. Gene Laughlin of the US as navigator, and crew-men Maxwell Hoeflich of Suva and Charles of the UK the ex- MARLYN, which returned to Auckland from Suva early July. • INA, flying the flag of West Germany and manned by an ex-German Navy man with one leg missing, was in Papeete in July and westbound. This is a cutter of about 38-ft. • PENNELLA of England, a ketch of about 40-ft., manned by Ed Rankin of Australia and his wife, left Moorea for Apia June 11. Mr. Rankin has been serv ing with the RAF. • KOAE and the Taylors of California cleared Moorea for Raiatea and Honolulu June 13. • GALATEA of Vancouver was in Papeete in July. No details

• Fortune, Flying Fish, And Iwa

(reported July “PIM” as EWA) of the US were all in Papeete late in June. No de tails. • TRADE WINDS. Tonga - registered ketch, left Apia July 14 for Tarawa and Vila, where it is hoped the 120-ton ketch may be sold. With owners Athol Rusden and Maceij Bochinski were five others.

Ted Copsey has disposed of his share in the vessel and was in Honolulu with his wife on holiday in July. (Over)

[?]lifofua , the Tongan tug which had some mid-Tasman Sea adventures recently—see page 97.

MARGARET, 26-ft. cutter of New land, was considered to be overdue on tassage from Auckland to Papeete in SEPTEMBER SONG, a 40-ft. American It manned by a couple named Lees overdue and the subject of a search late June having failed to arrive at rak, New Guinea, from Hollandia, h coast of Netherlands New Guinea. search was called off in early July a Hollandia reported that the NNG lorities had information that the yacht headed for Fiji. LATER: Honiara, BSIP, rted her missing early August, between andia and Suva; BSIP ships asked to lookout for her.

READWILL of Sydney, 29-ft. con ;d lifeboat, with A. Svedlund, Jim n, and Roy and Reg Milford aboard, h suffered a broken mast near Bora and went on the reef while entering ua, Rarotonga, early June, is expected ! at the latter port undergoing repairs about September.

HAUNUI, a 48-ft. launch which left land for Nukualofa late in May was subject of search inquiries in June, is believed to have put back to an- New Zealand port.

SOUTHERN MAID, the graceful yacht has been the floating home of Miles i, his wife and couple of youngsters, jrt Moresby for the last two years, there for Cairns on July 5. This is a cruising holiday for the Lewis y and they expect to return to Port »by in a few months, where the skip -5 a pilot with Papuan Air Transport, The holiday route was expected to iirns, Townsville, Brisbane, Noumea, :y and home—all in three months, them, as far as Townsville, went Scary and Lennie Lawrence. Fellow 5 in the Department of Civil Aviation been wondering why the latter has cultivating a beard in recent months ow the secret is out. (Owner-skipper wears one permanently).

And Then There Were Seven

irrival of WANDERER 111 i n Raro from Moorea on the morning of 30 brought the number of cruising 5 there at that moment to seven t)ly something of a record. KEHUA, F JEAN and NINA, which had been since late May, had all left Whan- New Zealand, together at end of They had been in Rarotonga since fay—two of them just in time for the waves (see elsewhere). WANDERER from the UK; and of the other three rere there, READWILL is Australian; IT is American; and TAHOE. 37-ft., schooner with owner-skipper Reg and one crew member, is originally Vancouver, BC. (INA left for Tonga soon after ar -9f WANDERER HI and from there robably sail westward to Fiji and Brisbane. KEHUA will probably be r way to Tahiti by the time this is TAHOE will probably stay in Raro for some time. er news of NINA was that she had 1 in Suva, four days out from Nuku on July 27. The yacht had spent eeks in Tonga, after a nine days e from Rarotonga. As well as owner r, Theo Buckthought, wife and four sons (see page 99), Keith Saul was ird. They expect to clear Suva for a in mid-August.) REWA, another NZ yacht bent on nga, had to put back to Whangarel

T r ;±" al " ,a ”‘ : Sh ' lh ' n • FIESTA of Panama left Honolulu June 16 for Fanning Island and French Polynesia. Aboard were Martin" VitouTek his wife Ann and their three children, Georgina, Clinton and Tere and one crew- • ENTICER II arrived in Honolulu from Japan aboard a freighter June 20. She is NANYO ° f , t . he ! r e,y 45 - f ° ot ketcb NANYO of Honolulu, also built in Japan.

The owner, Carl Gillette, plans on sailing her m the Hawaiian Islands with the possibility of heading south later.

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7, 12 days out of Borabora. Aboard the 66 MitcheM ar n SChoone 4 were skipper Bill Sargent' lßlernard B 1 ernard Wills, Dick Snelt. l I Da ” iels - and R oy Alton.

Auckland to Papeete took the CARLA

MANUS 13 V 2 days. Destination of the schooner is San Francisco where the boat will remain. She formerly belonged to Mr Jack Thurston of New Britain, who took her down to Sydney about 18 months ago. .ROMAYNE arrived Honolulu July 7, days from Moorea. Aboard were Nipper Riddel and crew of five. Will depart for homeport Vancouver, BC, in a few weeks. • WHITE SQUALL, 33 ft. ketch of Auck land, arrived at Honolulu July 11, 26 days out of Moorea. Aboard were Ross and Doreen Norgrove and crewman Doug Duine. 6 • STARDUST of Sydney, the big con verted Fairmile which left Suva June 19 for Apia via Wallis and Futuna, arrived at Apia July 5 and cleared again for Pago Pago and Tahiti on July 14. Two ad ditional crew members sought in Suva were still being sought in Apia.