Cruising Yachts

•St Yves D’Armour, A

French cutter, arrived at Suva on November 8 in the course of a world :ruise which started at Etel, Brittany, three years ago. On board vere the owner-skipper, M. Robert Le Saric, his wife, and their three children, Anaich, Gwenola and Yves, vho was born on board last year.

With the family were Mr. Douglas Fraser, a member of the crew, and tfr. Marcus Rindermann, who joined he cutter at Papeete as a guest.

Mr. Fraser joined the St Yves I’ Armour at Panama, and plans to eave her in Australia. The cutter yill call at the New Hebrides before ;oing on to Australia. • HUNAKAI, “Chris” Chris- Dpher’s 36 ft Block Island ketch, 'as towed into Gisborne by the □rvey ship HMNZS Lachlan on Jovember 10 after being the subject f a sea and air search for two days, he Lachlan found the ketch 65 miles

out of Gisborne. Her mainsail had gone and her engine was giving trouble.

Hunakai, which was in Fiji waters recently, arrived in NZ’s Bay of Islands on October 2 after a trip of 10 days 9 hours from Suva, in cluding two days hove-to. Her crew from Suva comprised Mr. Chris topher, his sons Corey, 14, and Dane, 11, and yachtsman Ed Larsen, who joined Hunakai in Pago.

Hunakai left Los Angeles in July, 1962, on a voyage round the world.

The crew originally included Mr.

Christopher’s wife, but she left the ketch in Suva and flew to Honololu to stay.

From Suva, Mr. Christopher’s original plan was to visit the New Hebrides, BSIP and New Guinea and go on to Indonesia. But because of the political situation in Indo nesia, he decided to have a look at New Zealand.

Mr. Christopher “felt his way” into the Bay of Islands on the night of October 2 as he had no charts of the area, and woke early next morning to find the anchor dragging

In Rabaul: The 30

ft. ketch "John Hanna", which has been making a leisurely voyage ac ross the Pacific, was in Rabaul in Novem ber. The ketch left San Pedro in May, 1962, with Klee Wing, of California, and J. Counterman, of Michigan. She has since visited most of the island groups south of the Equator.

and his vessel making fast time towards the shore.

Hunakai then began a leisurely trip down the east coast of the North Island, calling at Tutukaka and Whangarei. She was on her way to Napier when she ran into gales and heavy seas—and the search for her began. • TYRANT, 60 ft ketch-rigged yacht, arrived at Levuka early in November from Apia. On board were the New Zealand owner, Mr. J. R.

Jackson, his wife, and a crew of two Tahitians.

Mr, and Mrs. Jackson left the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, in April on their first cruise out of their home country, visiting Rurutu, in the Austral Islands, and then Tahiti.

From Tahiti, they visited the Marquesas, Gambiers and Tuamotus, returning to Tahiti before heading homewards.

On the way to Levuka, Tyrant visited Bora Bora, Rarotonga, Pago Pago and Apia. From Levuka, plans were to sail to Vanua Balavu in Lau, and then to Suva, where Mr.

Jackson’s father may join the yacht for the voyage back to New Zealand.

Mr. and Mrs. Jackson built Tyrant as a spare-time project over eight years. They cut the timber from the bush. • KILKI, 27 ft Melbourne cutter, with owner-skipper Stan Field and Clive Gartner, both of Melbourne, arrived in Pago Pago on November 3 from Tonga’s Vavau Group.

Our last news of Kilki was from Whangarei, New Zealand, in late August ( PIM, October, p. Ill) when she was about to head for Nukualofa after crossing the Tasman.

In a friendly note from Vavau, written on October 26, Stan Field has filled us in with the details of Kilki's movements since leaving Whangarei. He says: "Kilki made a 12-day passage from Whangarei to Nukualofa, arriving there on September 14. We sailed by way of the Kermadec Islands, making a two-day stopover at the NZ weather station on Raoul Island.

Actual sailing time was just under 10 days. The wind was mainly south to south-west, which gave us a free sheet ‘Sunday sail’.

"Kilki spent three weeks in and around Nukualofa, leaving there on October 9 for the Ha’apai Group.

We spent two weeks in this group, making our headquarters at Pangai, Lifuka Island.

“We arrived at Neiafu, Vavau, on October 25 for a week in this beautiful harbour. From here we head northwards to Pago Pago.

“Apart from the NZ yacht Tanganui which left Tonga for Auckland late in September, and the English trimaran Trinui, which was making ready at Nukualofa for the trip to NZ, we have not met any other cruising yachts.” • MONSOON, Herb Hope’s 47 ft San Diego-registered yacht, arrived in Pago Pago on October 9 and was still there at the beginning of November. Including Hope, she has a crew of three.

Hope apparently has drastically ] changed his plans since we last reported Monsoon's movements. \ That was in June (p. Ill) after Monsoon had narrowly escaped destruction on rocks near the New South Wales-Queensland border.

Monsoon was then heading for New Guinea and Indonesia in the course of a round-the-world voyage, after having crossed the Pacific. • ULULANI, a yacht from Hawaii, was in Pago Pago in late October and in Apia in early November. • WAIRONGI, yacht, with a crew of six, left Pago Pago for Apia on November 2. • FJORD 111, 49 ft cutter owned and skippered by Dr. George Lapin, of Long Beach, California, sailed from Papeete on October 17 for Samoa. • CEST LA VIE, 23 ft sloop, left Tahiti early in October on a trip round the world—presumably in a westward direction. Our last report of this sloop was in June when she left Honolulu for Tahiti with owner skipper Lyall Price and crewman Tu Mihi. In Tahiti, a well known local footballer, Torea, and two friends joined C’Est La Vie to see the world. • SEA WIND . Mr. and Mrs.

Malcolm Graham’s 38 ft ketch, which was in Port Moresby several months ago after a leisurely Pacific cruise, is now in the Indian Ocean. Mrs.

Graham said in a note to us from Christmas Island in November that Sea Wind had reached there in 29 days from Thursday Island —“the slowest voyage ever” because the sea was like glass and there was no wind.

Mrs. Graham spoke enthusiastically of Christmas Island hospitality and Cocos Island beauty, and added that Sea Wind was going on to Mahe in the Seychelles, where she would stay until January.

O MYONIE, 36 ft cruiser with

Captain A 1 and wife “Mike”

Gehrman, is almost within sight of home on her voyage round the world which began in Miami in November, 1961. Latest port of call is Durban, South Africa.

Myonie was in the Pacific (Tahiti, Fiji, ’ the BSIP and the US Trust Territory) for several months in 1962.

Nz Bound: "Siga

Wale", a 30-year old 30 ft. yacht, left Suva on November 4 for New Zealand despite the warnings of the Fiji Harbour Master, Captain E. L.

James, because of doubts on her sea worthiness. On board were Mr. Pat Ewins, his son, Robert, and his nephew, John Caine.

Mr. Ewins said be fore he left Suva that he was allowing himself 30 days to get to Auckland.

The "Siga Wale's"

only navigation

equipment is a com pass and she has an

open cockpit.

Photo: Stan

Whippy.