Cruising Yachts

• Extended Adolescence,

I ft ketch-rigged trimaran, was icated by the US Coast Guard on [arch 2 some 165 miles south-west I Honolulu after having been over je at that port since the end of ebruary.

The trimaran was carrying a small ry-rigged main and jib. All aboard ere in good health and were ex ited to reach Honolulu by about [arch 9.

Extended Adolescence, skippered / Jim Thomson, a physicist, for erly with the Lockheed Aircraft orporation, left Hawaii last Sep tember with plans to visit Tahiti, ew Zealand and Australia. Our last port of her was from Tahiti in late ovember. • FORTUNE, 34 ft cutter-rigged agoer, owned and skippered by ave Goeffney, arrived in Honolulu i February 4 after a 28-day passage om Papeete. Aboard as crew was ed Phipp, of San Diego.

Goeffney had hoped to make the [arquesas and go from there to San iego, but adverse winds and un ttled weather changed his plans.

Goeffney and his wife Nellie left onolulu in Fortune in July, 1962, id sailed to Tahiti, Rarotonga, □nga, Fiji, New Caledonia and Aus alia. They reached Brisbane in [ay, 1963, and then cruised the arrier Reef.

From there, Fortune went on to ew Zealand with Mick Hurworth as ew. She sailed from New Zealand •r Tahiti last November.

After refitting in Honolulu, Goef ney was planning to head for San iego. (See picture p. 105.) • SARI MARAIS, 45 ft ketch, Qgle-handed by Royce E. Hubert, banker-turned-yachtsman from Drtland, Oregon, has been in Port

[oresby recently.

Hubert, who is 43, set out four jars ago to travel round the world, it so far he hasn’t got past the acific Islands, and he says the full ip might take him 20 years.

He says his progress has been owed by such adventures as: Five ays at the mercy of a 100 mph iirricane; 11 hours on a reef in onga; and a love affair with a liefs daughter at Manahi in the uamotus.

But he adds: “Tve never been attacked by a whale or eaten by a shark so I suppose I shouldn’t complain”.

Hubert, who spent five years in the United States Navy during the war, later became a mortgage banker in New York.

In May, 1960, he achieved his life’s ambition when he took delivery of Sari Marais in the Virgin Islands and set out to sail round the world.

Since then he has sailed 25,000 miles—more than enough to take him round the globe. Yet he is only halfway.

Unusual in an ex-banker, he doesn’t worry about money and says £3OO a year is enough to keep him

going. Now and then he takes on cargo or charter work.

In New Zealand he held a job for several months. And in New Guinea he took over as master of a coastal trader for a while.

But in February he was ready to move on, although when this story was written he still hadn’t decided whether to go via Darwin and the Seychelles to the Middle East, or whether to call at the Trobriands and Indonesia and sail on up to Japan.

After leaving the West Indies four years ago, he travelled through the Panama Canal, up to Portland, Oregon, then down to Mexico and Central and South America as far as Ecuador.

In the Pacific he has touched at the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Cook Islands, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, and Solomons besides New Guinea.

His daughter, aged 20, stayed with him as far as the New Hebrides, then returned home to live in Pensacola, Florida.

Hubert says he will never return to banking and that he hopes to cruise on indefinitely, eking out his earnings by collecting and selling rare shells, and perhaps by writing a book.

He dresses simply—in shorts and sometimes a shirt—and says he is “through with shoes, socks and neckties forever”. • WAIRANGI, an American yacht, called at Funafuti, GEIC, in February, en route to Honiara.

Royce Hubert of "Sari Marais".

• SEA FIRE, a yacht which has ?een in French Polynesia recently, irrived in Honolulu on February 27 ifter a 35-day voyage from Bora Bora. • WALRUS, 26 ft Australian :utter, reached Honolulu on Feb ruary 19 to end a hazardous chapter n the lives of Roy and Rosemary kott, who began a honeymoon cruise n the cutter two years ago.

Their last port of call was Christ nas Island, where Rosemary (Ross :o her friends) had an emergency operation for an infected leg and was ucky to survive. Later, on the way ;o Honolulu, their cutter was bat :ered by winds of up to 50 knots.

The Scotts’ adventures began when ;hey left Sydney, their home city, on December 26, 1961, for New Zea and.

In August last year they sailed for lahiti, and from there they headed ;or the Tuamotus.

However, because of unfavourable veather, they changed course for Honolulu. Subsequent engine trouble lid not discourage them, but when Ross developed a badly infected leg,

35-year-old Roy changed course again and headed for Christmas Island, Five days out of Christmas, Ross’s temperature reached 105 degrees and stayed there. With no medical sup plies aboard, Roy kept his wife going on vitamin pills until they reached Christmas Island.

There, two Royal Air Force doc tors—Ali Khan and Brian Henley— performed emergency surgery in the base hospital. Ross’s life was saved, but it was seven weeks before she could walk again, and she lost 28 lb.

The Scotts left Christmas Island

for Honolulu on January 28 and their 22-day trip was a constant battle against high winds and heavy seas. One gale in the doldrums bat tered them with 50 knot winds, and the next two weeks of trade winds averaged 30 knots. • DWYN WEN, 106 ft schooner, which has been cruising the South Pacific for some months shooting an adventure film, reached Honolulu on February 17 with owner Jim Walters, his wife Aloha, skipper Stan Rayner, and 11 others. Dwyn Wen sailed from Papeete on January 9. (Over)

Roy and Rosemary Scott aboard their bat te red yacht "Walrus" in Honolulu in February. Photo: W. R. Roll.

• WINDSONG, 48 ft ketch which :ft Sydney on February 12 with a rew of five Australians, reached Aickland on March 3. Plans then ere to sail for Rarotonga in about vo weeks.

The crew consists of the owner, Ir. P. M. Weate, Captain F. E. /alker and Messrs. R. A. Holden, C. •’Connor and P. Tatzel.

They intend spending a year sail ig in the Pacific and hope to get to an Francisco. • SEAWYF, 45 ft schooner, with wner-skipper Bill Rudolph, Virginia ook, Mohi Finiahi, Tony Richard an, Pedro Vanderent and David .amsey, arrived in Honolulu on ebruary 8 after a voyage from 'ahiti which began on January 10. eawyf will remain in Honolulu for jveral months and then return to r ancouver, her home port. • NEOPHYTE, 45 ft. ketch with ,ee Quinn, 37, and an all-girl crew f four is to make another voyage to ae South Pacific. (See elsewhere for Lirther details.) • AWAHNEE, 52 ft American utter, with owner-skipper Dr. Robert Griffith, 48, his wife Nancy, 29, nd their son Reid, 9, was totally /recked in mid-January when she /as driven on to a reef at Vahanga Uoll in the Tuamotus. Vahanga is me of the Actaeon Group of atolls, ome 80 miles from Mururoa, the entre for France’s proposed nuclear xperiments.

Awahnee, which completed a r oyage round the world when she cached Honolulu last July, was in he early stages of a second attempt it circumnavigation when she was vrecked.

Awahnee began her second voyage m October 24 when she left Hono ulu with the Griffith family and ive crew members —Sharron Antich, Bill Nordhoff, Norman Zalkind, David Lamb and Mike Risdon. Dr.

Griffith’s intention was to sail hrough the Straits of Magellan and circumnavigate the world by heading cast—the reverse of what he did jreviously.

The cutter reached Tahiti on De cember 7. En route she had passed close to the island of Eiao in the Marquesas, where those on board saw some wreckage which they thought might be that of the 52 ft American yacht Astrea which disap peared in the Eastern Pacific last June.

From Tahiti, Dr. Griffith contacted the family of the Astrea’s owner skipper; and on December 15, Awah nee sailed for Eiao so that a closer inspection of the wreckage could be made.

Having satisfied himself that the wreckage was not that of the Astrea, Dr. Griffith continued his voyage to wards the bottom of South America.

By this time, Dr. Griffith had lost two of his original crew members — Sharron Antich, who had stayed in Tahiti, and Mike Risdon, who left in the Marquesas.

According to Le Journal de Tahiti, Awahnee was wrecked after Dr. Grif fith anchored at Vahanga “for rea sons unknown” and had taken “some important material” ashore which he installed in a tent.

This story, however, does not seem to accord with that given in a letter from Dr. Griffith’s wife to her mother in Honolulu. This was that Awahnee struck the reef in a blind ing squall [presumably while sailing] and was driven on to it before those on board could do anything.

The letter added that an attempt was being made to salvage gear from the ship and that the Griffiths ex pected to remain on Vahanga for three months. • MELISANDE, a picturesque 83year-old yacht, put into Townsville in February to take on food and water to enable her to by-pass Indonesia en route to Hong Kong for an over haul.

Melisande is skippered and partly owned by Steve Sansom, who is ac companied by his wife, Patricia, Les Williams (chief engineer) and a crew from England, Belgium, Denmark and Malta.

The Melisande, of 160 tons, was built in England as a steam yacht.

After an adventurous life, she was bought by the present owners in Belgium last June.