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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1964Vol. 35, No. 2

Schooner Missing In

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

Eastern Pacific

Dr. James Sunseri, AAD, of 1147 Delynn Way, San Jose, California, has written to PIM asking yachtsmen and others in the Eastern Pacific to be or the look-out for the 52 ft. schoonei "Astrea", which left Puerto Vallarta Mexico, on June 30 last year foi the Marquesas and Tahiti and has noi been seen or heard from since.

The crew members are: Phil O Hayes, owner - skipper, aged 33 Jonathan Allen, 26; Allen's wife, Ruth Pyra Allan, 19; Jimmp Sunseri, 22, and Jerry Spatz, 20.

Dr. Sunseri says the "Astrea" ma> have been blown off course in French Polynesia, and may have beer wrecked on an uninhabited island He says a "substantial reward" wil be paid for factual information or the whereabouts of "Astrea" and/oi her crew.