News of Cruising Yachts
pp. 111-112 · Read in the full issue
• EUSKALDUNA, 29-ft sloop, arrived in Rabaul in March en route from Hongkong to South America.
Aboard were Manuel Cowajal and Alfredo Cayalis, both from Guatemala. Their boat suffered damage in two typhoons on the way and will be repaired in Rabaul before heading for Fiji on the next leg of the trip. They aim to land in Chile in July “in time for the annual soccer championships!” • WANDERLURE, 68-ft ketch rigged luxury motor yacht, was in Nukualofa in March and was ex pected to arrive in Sydney in late
April. Aboard are Commodore and Mrs. Carl M. Heintz, Snr., of Santa Barbara, California, with crew, mak ing a round-the-world trip. The yacht left St. Petersburg, Florida, in July last year and expects to be back in Santa Barbara in 1964.
Her route has been through the Caribbean, Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Bora Bora, the two Samoas, Tonga and she will visit NZ before reaching Sydney.
After a visit to the Barrier Reef, Wanderlure will head for Darwin and Europe via Djakarta and Singa pore. Wanderlure was built to the owner’s specifications, using a hull design based on sturdy boats used
by Gulf coast fishermen—km locally as “red snapper hulls”, unusual design feature is the miz: mast, which rises 40-ft and serves as the exhaust pipe for craft’s diesels. Main power p is a General Motors diesel deve ing 180 continuous hp. She also a 60 hp auxiliary diesel.
Commodore Heintz is a rel advertising executive who has 1 active in West Coast, US, yacl circles for many years. He skipp his 50-ft ketch Four Winds in Trans-Pac race and crewed on .! hound when it won the Trans race several years ago. • PATSY JEAN, 28 ft ketch ported overdue en route from H lulu to Fanning in February, tu up safely at Fanning. There been no trouble, said New Zeala Brian White, merely adverse w With White in Patsy Jean was erly Collington. A US Coastg aircraft had made a search for ketch when she was reported i due. • VIAJE, 40 ft sloop, arrivt San Francisco from Honoluh March after a rugged 27 day sage, proving once again that north Pacific in winter is no for small ships. Crew was I Martens, Ralph Forsyth, Herb 1 man, and an attractive blonde, 1 Danneberg.
• Sundowner, 36 Ft
ketch, was outward bound Honolulu to the mainland U March in the hands of a profess crew: Tony Carter, skipper, 1 Bernhard and Chuck Mead. C and Bernhard crewed on the schooner Aafje in Tahiti a or so ago. Carter plans to retu the Kalona by the time her mast is ready to see her on to T • OKEANOS, Joe Pacherr 39 ft staysail schooner which also sailed through our pages i the names of Kona and Moon was in the Hermit Islands, we Manus, New Guinea, on Mar on the first leg of a voyage Wewak to Tokyo. With Pache: is a Tasmanian, Joe Assmann, merly a storeman with the I Administration at Wewak. V Joe: “We want to pick the sh( route to Japan, but on our through the Carolines we might a call or two. If the Yanks shoot us on sight we might call < at Guam or Saipan. After m Japan, where we expect to st month or two, we intend to for the Hawaiian Islands and 1 to Polynesia.”