[?]ws of Cruising Yachts

TIARE MAORI, inter - island known for years in the many of the South Pacific, has made fst voyage. Badly damaged by unknown origin early this year peete harbour, she sank in 35 water, and salvage efforts were aned.

Port of Papeete authori scided that the wreck was in ' of becoming a menace to navi • Empty drums and a huge tank placed beneath her hull, air d in, and the wreck raised ntly for towing beyond the dand at the entrance to the ir, Motu Uta. The operation tected under the supervision of ti Fant who was sent by Lloyds. ? Maori now lies in 50 ft of m an inlet of the coral reef Motu Uta, After removal of ists, parts of the rigging, port anchors and chains, the wreck dynamited.

Dr. Brian Ferraz Who

he Pacific in 1957 in Solquest ina wants to know the where of both yachts and his one alow crew members. au can tell him where the family ( Solquest ) are (back draha, we think) or Mr {Diana) or Colin Gallon, last * f m Peru > drop him a line, 7 Beach Ave., Vancouver anada.

• SANTANA, Los Angeles yacht, left Santo May 19, for Thursday Island. Owner, wife and 11-year-old daughter (names unknown) had pre viously come via Marquesas, Tahiti and Fiji before spending the three days at Santo. • BORRACHITA, 34 ft. cutter, owned by Ed Dreis, of Santa Cruz, was the third American yacht to visit Santo during May. Borrachita ar rived on the 18th and on her way to Port Moresby. • ST AG HOUND, of San Fran cisco, which has been at Santo, New Hebrides, since December, 1960, while her owner Paul Hurst went to the USA, left on May 19 for the Solomon Islands under charter to C.

Jack Hinton (see PIM, April, 1961, pages 78-79) who is working on a history of the discovery of the Solo mons. Jack Hinton, a former District Officer in the BSIP, is now a re search scholar with the Department of Pacific History, Australian National University, Canberra.

O ATE A left Bay of Islands, NZ, on May 14 for a cruise to Tahiti with five aboard.

Owner, Mr. R. M. Mcllvride, Paihia, is commodore of the Bay of Islands Yacht Club and former owner of trans-Tasman yacht Gesture.

Mrs. Mcllvride, will join the yacht with her young daughter in Tahiti Crew includes, Messrs. H. Hudson, W. Roberts, J. Gidley, and B. Ley land. • STARDUST, 114 ft. Australian motor yacht overdue on her run from the Marquesas to Honolulu, was located at Christmas Island early in April. Richard Smith, skipper of Stardust, said that engine trouble had plagued the entire voyage. Also on board it is believed are one man and two women. Repairs were being undertaken at Christmas Island so the yacht may yet deliver its crate of Polynesian artifacts destined for the Bishop Museum in Honolulu. • CAPRICE, 20 ft. yawl, skip pered by Godfrey Decker, 30-year old Englishman, arrived in Auckland, May 16 after a lone-handed voyage from Adelaide. She is believed to be the smallest craft to cross the Tasman. • FIT REACH BAN, 83 ft. NZ schooner, began a world trip from Auckland on May 8, with nine people aboard. She was built in Southamp ton 30 years ago, and former owner Capt. A. F. Watchlin, RN, bought her in the Mediterranean and sailed her to NZ. (Over)

[?]en Gunn", in Papeete in May.

Fitheach Ban, was bought by M A. D. Tregidga, retired trawler ci: tain in 1957 and has crossed i Tasman three times, including tr year’s Trans-Tasman Classic.

Crew comprise Mr. Tregidga, j wife and four children, Lyn, Diane, 16; Susan, 15; and John, j Also aboard are Mr. and Mrs,.

Sharland, and Mr. F. Mant, a mo: mechanic who will look after the tv diesels and three auxiliary mot! aboard. Voyage will take Fithet Ban via Great Barrier Reef, Ton Strait, and Indian Ocean, Suez, Britain.

O Pigeon Island Tradei

The paragraph in April PIM (p. 1 about the Hep worths of Art\ Rogers settling on an island, stirred Tom to write a letter, j said he planned to write anyhow, PlM’s “vigilant correspondent” 1 made it more necessary. He mentii he doesn’t want anyone to run a* with the idea that now thev haw land base they’ve ioined the idle n “Our business is that of traditio ‘island trader',” he says, “We that we have been lucky to fim corner of the Pacific where such life is still possible.

“Diana has swallowed the anch at least temporarily, and refuses:: leave the lovely island even for sk trips. She still has a busy life n< theless, in gardening and looking a the trade store. In her spare time's builds furniture!”

Tom writes on very impres; notepaper, headed: “Pigeon Isk Traders, Reef Island, Santa C BSIP.” Good luck to them—theyV amongst the very few who have no yacht cruising pay for itseit.

In Brisbane in April—the new MV "Pankum length 47 ft, beam 15 ft 6 in., draft 6 Duilt at the Roy Bliss Boatyard, Bulim[?] Brisbane, for 0. E. Newman, of Malekula, [?] Hebrides. She is powered by a 6LW Gard[?]

NEW WORLD, Vancouver, left ste May 18 en route for Suva New Zealand, with Bill and a Graeber aboard. They expect ach Auckland in September.

MYRA J., Los Angeles, is in 4e harbour undergoing engine s. Skipper Richard J. Trock says he expects to stay in Tahiti month or two. Also aboard his four children, all boys, and ie Well.

NELEH, Long Beach, will leave te about the first week of June ute for the Marquesas, Hono md Long Beach. She is skip by Lewis Reese, with Jeff Gates mg Beach aboard. Reese exa ™ ve ln Long Beach towards d of July.

ABOARD SUE A from San California, is Cleet Roberts s busy in and around Papeete movies for a US TV show m Papeete harbour, Duchess, Beach; Phoebe, Durban; Ben Mystic, Connecticut; Ramona, ageles; and Gay Lady, with no port of registration. 57 ft. steel cutter, left , April 22, for a six month’s m the Pacific. Vic Meyer, of this well-known Sydney racer, was at the helm.

California - Honolulu

L RACE: By mid-May, 36 had signified their intention of in this blue water classic that nces from San Pedro (Los

Angeles) on July 4 and reaches Honolulu from two to three weeks later. Two Honolulu entries are Zia, owned and skippered by Robert John son, and No Huhu, owned by Frank Rothwell. For the first time there will be Japanese entries in this race—both (Nippon Maru and Kaio Maru ) are four-masted barques and at over 2,000 tons each, are certainly a lot bigger than most entrants in races of this kind.

• The Lady Dianna, A 36-

footer from Auckland, arrived in Honolulu in May as deck cargo and is now being cruised through the

Hawaiian archipelago by owner S. L.

Wallath and his wife. The yacht is a handsome sedan cruiser with a Gray marine 6.

• The Wheeler Family

aboard Poseidon (PIM May, p. 115) got flu a few hundred miles north of Honolulu and turned back. They were planning to visit Alaska before going to Canton on a government job.

• Yankee Doodle, Makoa

and SEA FEVER all in Honolulu in late May, are planning to sail south in June—all Tahiti bound.