[?]ruising Yachts

• AUAU-KAI, 37 ft yacht, left akualofa for California on October after four months in Tonga. On >ard were skipper-owner Roger ith, his wife Elizabeth, and their o sons Roy and Philip.

The Baths had planned to make a tour of the world, but ter two years they decided the ys should return to school.

While in Tonga, Roger Bath took rt in Tongan-style whaling, photo aphing his experiences for the itional Geographic Magazine. • COS A NOSTRA, 30 ft tri iran, arrived in Rabaul from Japan the end of September with a crew three—Doug Bartlett and Tom hulz, of Southern California, and ter Wetzel, of West Germany. The ree men left Japan on May 27, iling via the Carolines.

From Rabaul, they planned to visit j Trobriand Islands and Cairns, ley hope to circumnavigate the )rld by the usual east-to-west route. • EUROPE, 75 ft schooner, skip red by Rene Corpel, was due to ive Vila for Honiara at the end September. The schooner arrived Vila from Futuna and Apia on igust 10. • FELIX 111, an American yacht, •ived in Pago Pago on September • FJORD 111, 49 ft cutter, sailed >m Suva on October 15 for Long ach, California. On board were r new owners, brothers George d John Knowlton, who bought the cht from the estate of the late Dr. jorge Lapin for $20,000 ( PIM, pt., p. 105).

Fjord 111 went aground on a reef the Lomaiviti Group, Fiji, on scember 5, 1963, but was refloated d towed to Suva.

Dr. Lapin was drowned while imming near Sigatoka earlier this ar.

On board for the voyage to Long ach were George Knowlton, jorge de Giorgio (captain), Jerry linn and Bruce Wheeler. They pected to visit Futuna, Samoa, ihiti, the Marquesas and Honolulu.

Fjord 111 was built in Argentina d took part in last year’s Los igeles-Honolulu yacht race.

• IDLER, 24 ft Tahiti-type ketch from San Diego, California, left Honolulu in August for Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga, New Zealand and Australia. On board were Sherman Price, Allen Wooley and Mike Pelto. • JUDY AL, 37 ft catamaran, skippered by Mr. R. Lewedon, a former merchant seaman, left Van couver for New Zealand on October 4. Mr. Lewedon has been a cripple for 25 years. • LUNKENTUSS, 26 ft. Swedish ketch with Gunnar Dahlgren, 32, and

Dag Ekholm, 26, left Direction Island in the Cocos-Keeling Group (Indian Ocean) for Mauritius and Durban on September 15 after a week’s stay at the tiny atoll.

The ketch is on a voyage round the world, having left Sundsvall, Sweden, two years ago. In the Pacific, she visited the Galapagos, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Cook Islands, American Samoa, Fiji, New Hebrides, Port Moresby and Thursday Island, She was in Port Moresby in July.

Ken Mullen, who worked at the cable station at Norfolk Island a couple of years ago and is now doing

the same thing on Cocos, says in a note to PIM that “most of the staff of the Cocos cable station gathered at the jetty to farewell the Lunken tuss, which provided a pleasant break in the otherwise placid routine”. • MARIS, 36 ft yawl, with Jack Earl and his son Mick, of Sydney, were reported in October to be pre paring to leave Sausalito, California, for San Diego and Acapulco, Mexico.

The Earls will then head back into the South Pacific, their aim being to be in Tahiti for next Bastille Day. • MAY LIS, Papeete-based yacht, which was hired by the Beatles during their visit to Tahiti earlier this year, left Papeete in September on a six week cruise with a party of American scientists interested in studying the shells of Polynesia. Maylis was to visit Anaa, Mangareva and Pitcairn. • RAILLEUSE, yacht belonging to Francis Mazieres, left Tahiti in September for Easter Island. She is due back in Tahiti by Christmas. • VALROSA, elegant 35-metre yacht, was tied up in Noumea early in October after a visit to the Loyalty Islands. Valrosa, which is skippered by Marc Darnois, was in Suva in August, She was carrying a party of tourists as far as New Guinea, from where she will return to her home port of Papeete to pick up more tourists for another South Seas cruise.

Among Valrosa’s passengers on reaching Noumea was a Uruguayan artist, Carlos Vilaros, who executed a mural fresco for the French authorities at Faaa airport terminal in Tahiti. He left Valrosa in Noumea to fly to Cairo on another artistic assignment—at the invitation of President Nasser. • JINNI, 40 ft American cutter, with a crew of three, reached Gis borne, New Zealand, on September 28 from Tonga. The cutter was adrift for the last eight days of her voyage in swells up to 25 ft and 70knot winds, short of food and water, with no radio or engine, and with only a jib sail left.

Exhausted, the crew feared they were drifting past New Zealand and knelt down on the deck to pray.

Then suddenly the clouds parted and

the crew were amazed to see the top of a mountain—Hikurangi, near East Cape.

The crew comprised Rheems Mitchell (skipper), James Harrold and David Guttenbual.

Mitchell and Harrold left Maui, Hawaii, in the Jinni on June 3.

Guttenbual joined the cutter in Tonga. • JESSICA, 55 ft Alden ketch owned by Honolulu architect Ted Jacobsen, returned to Honolulu as a sloop recently after losing her mizzen mast about four degrees south of the Equator. Skippered by Sparky Putzker, the ketch had a crew of three—Louis MacFarland, Steve Jackson and Dick Holden.

Jessica left Honolulu last March for a cruise in the Society, Cook and Samoan islands, and was on her way home when she lost her mizzen. • NEOPHYTE, 45 ft ketch, ar rived in Apia on October 13 from Pago Pago. She had on board owner skipper Lee Quinn, his wife, and a crew of three girls.

Our man in Pago Pago says Neo phyte was there from October 3 to October 12.

From Apia, Neophyte went on to Tonga and Suva, arriving at the latter port on October 22. • SOUTHWIND, 30 ft trimaran with Joe Hudson (skipper), John Gunneles and Kerry Kennelly, all of Big Sur, California, was heading for Tahiti from Honolulu in August.

• TROPIC SEAS, an Austral ketch from Port Macquarie, is rid an anchor at Russell, Bay of Islai New Zealand, until March, when crew plan to begin a cruise to Society Islands, Hawaii and United States.

The ketch called at Lord He Island in July on her trans-Tasc crossing. Her crew then compri Lew Carter, John and Bi Landrigan, Joe Birt and Art Elliott, who own the ketch betw them. They have since been joi by another Australian Marty M who is to be the ketch’s cook, men have found employment.

Lew Carter says in a note PIM : “None of the crew has previous experience, and we have to learn the hard way.

“We had big following seas our trip from Port Macquarie Lg>rd Howe Island but no seasicki was experienced.

“We had a most wonderful t at Lord Howe Island and our tha are due to everyone there.” • TORY, American triamai reached Apia on October 6 \ skipper Peter Ibbold, his wife J; and a crew of two Britons, a C man, and an American Samoan, next port after Apia was to Levuka, Fiji. • TREKKA, 20 ft yawl, \ Clifford and Marian Cain, left Ho lulu on September 13 for Fanr Island and New Zealand. They rived in Honolulu on August 1 fi Monterey, • WAIRANGI, an Ameri yacht, arrived at Pago Pago on 5 tember 9. Our last report on M rangi was from Funafuti, Ellice lands, in February. • WAKANUI, 28 ft yacht, wl was in Nukualofa in August, arri in Pago Pago on September Wakanui is a New Zealand c skippered by Phil Sharp, of Ai land. • WAKATORU, an American maran, which was in Rarotonga August, arrived in Pago Pago September 25, sailing again October 5.

• Windsong Iv, 48 Ft Ke

which left Melbourne last Janu for a Pacific cruise, was reported October to have reached San Fr cisco from Honolulu after a 23h passage. The ketch is skippered i owned by Philip Weate, of N bourne.

Cliff and Marian Cain adjust a steering sail on their yawl "Trekka" in Honolulu.

They are now on their way to New Zealand.—Photo: Warren R. Roll.