Cruising Yachts

• TRI-ODYSSEY, 35 ft American trimaran, was due to leave Rarotonga at the end of April for Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand with her owner-builders, Jerry Allen and Le Roy Fry, and two crew members, Ron Ashley, a dentist, and John Brink, a former paratrooper, who oined the craft in French Polynesia.

Allen and Fry built Tri-Odyssey in a backyard at Redwood City, California, and sailed for Honolulu Tom San Francisco in June, 1963.

After a year as carpenters in Tonolulu, they sailed for Tahiti with lack Thomson and Carroll Hobart, irriving there on September 2 last /ear.

Allen and Fry spent seven months imong the Society Islands—Moorea, *aiatea, Tahaa and Bora Bora. They iked Tahaa best because of its riendly people, lack of roads and ourists, and peaceful atmosphere.

Allen told the Cook Islands News hat French soldiers were everywhere n Tahiti, and although most were veil-behaved, they spoiled the itmosphere.

On reaching New Zealand, Allen md Fry plan to rebuild the cabin ind superstructure of their craft to •rovide more head room. • DESTINER, a 43 ft bridge leck schooner, owned and sailed by Jon and Clarice Wilcox, of Cayucas, California, shoved off from Man anillo, Mexico, on April 6 for 'ahiti and points south. Destiner left Morro Bay, California, last June for . three-year cruise of the South ’acific. • MINK, a New Zealand yacht, jft Balboa, Canal Zone, in mid -4 arch on the way home from the Mediterranean and Europe. • SHIREEN, an English yacht, ailed into the Pacific from Balboa ound for Tahiti and New Zealand n March 9.

While crossing the Atlantic in Jovember, Shireen encountered the wld-girdling American ketch Svea, fith Robert and Mary Kittredge, diich became well known in the outh Pacific in 1961 and 1962 while ruising in that area.

During two days of calms, the iittredges invited the crew of

Shireen to board Svea for a tuna dinner. • OHRA, 25 ft 6 in. cutter with owner-skipper Lourie Harder. 31, and Manfred Wille, 27, was due to leave Port Moresby on May 16 for Thursday Island, Cairns, New Zealand and Tahiti.

Ohra was designed and built in Lae in 1963. She has teak decks and an auxiliary engine on 6 h.p.

Lourie Harder worked in Lae for some time as an engineering surveyor with the Lae firm of T. W.

Richards and Associates, engineering surveyors. © DIANA, 43-ft yawl, with 73year-old Norman Eggerton Young, CB, CMC, MC, and a Seychellese lad, was lost at sea off Portuguese East Africa recently.

Mr. Young, who retired from the post of Comptroller of the National Debt Office in Britain in 1954, spent most of his time from then on sailing the world in Diana.

He was in the Pacific in 1957 and again in 1960-62. The last time he was mentioned in PIM was in May, 1962 (p. 113) after Diana had arrived in Sydney from New Zea land and Fiji.

Mrs. Pat Fenton, of the much publicised yacht Cythera, which is still in Sydney, tells us in a note that she was surprised to see no mention of Mr. Young’s death in the Sydney newspapers.

“This kindly old man,” she says, was well-known throughout the Pacific. He was last in Sydney dur ing Easter, 1962, and we met him on many occasions, finding him a delightful old gentleman, who be longed to an era long gone. We are sure that the many yachties in Australia who met him will be sorry to hear of the passing of such a gallant master, who often sang Greek love songs to his beloved ship while taking his watch.” • LADY LEE, 43-ft ketch, with Fred and Doris Murphy, of Long Beach, was at Academy Bay, Gala pagos Islands, in mid-February after a 28-day trip from the Canal Zone.

The Murphys were uncertain at that time whether they would go on to Tahiti or Honolulu. • MARINER, 34-ft yawl, origin ally from Seattle, which New Zea landers John and Joyce Dean bought in Auckland in 1961, is currently in New Caledonian waters.

Mr. Dean, with a paying crew of two and his four-year-old son

Michael, sailed Mariner to New Caledonia from Sydney in March last year en route to San Diegeo.

But he has found New Caledonia so pleasant that he hasn’t got any further.

Son Michael is now at school in Wellington, and Mrs. Dean is work ing in Wellington as a beautician. • CIMBA , a famous 35-ft Blue nose schooner, arrived in Port Moresby in late April, with owner skipper Bill Holmes, of Sydney, who now has a temporary job as civil engineer with the Department of Public Works.

The schooner, which began her career as a fishing vessel on the Nova Scotia coast in 1929, achieved early renown by winning the big annual free-for-all race in those waters three years in succession.

She was then bought by two young Americans and fitted out in New York for a voyage around the world.

The circumnavigation was no t accomplished, but the schooner did have an adventurous voyage as far as Fiji, where she went on a reef, was dragged off unscathed, and sold.

Her new owner. Major Lazarus, of Suva, sailed her for many years with distinction in Suva yacht races.

Meanwhile, the schooner’s voyage from New York to Fiji had become the subject of a book by Richard Maury called Saga of Cimba, which has been described as “a classic in deep-sea, small craft literature.”

Cimba was bought by Sir Philip

The late Mr. Norman E. Young and his ill fated yawl "Diana" photographed in Suva several years ago.

ditchell soon after he became Gov rnor of Fiji in 1942 and, after be ng overhauled and rejuvenated, was enamed Bluebell. She reverted to er original name when Sir Philip old her to Mr. G. F. Russell, of uva, on his departure from Fiji in 945.

In May, 1945, Mr. Russell sailed he schooner to Auckland with /lessrs, J. Molloy, of Suva, and F. ieddoes, of Lautoka, and it seems -but we are by no means sure of his —that she was sold in New Zea md and remained there until re ently.

At any rate, Bill Holmes, the resent owner, bought Cimba from ’ill Eglinton, of New Zealand, in lay, 1961, although this transaction >ok place in Sydney.

Holmes left Sydney in Cimba in lay, 1963, and sailed north to Tursday Island. He then went back 3 Cairns, but eventually returned ) Thursday Island. From there, he ailed direct to Moresby.

He now plans to visit the olomons, Fiji and other Pacific Jands. • RED BOOMER, Bill McNeil’s 2-ft ketch which arrived in Port loresby from Fremantle, Western lUstralia, in December, 1963, and iter went on to Rabaul, is now back i Moresby, where Bill has an en ineering draftsman’s job with the üblic Works Department.

Also working in Moresby—in the department of Land s is Miss oleen Dalton, of Tasmania, who as one of Red Boomer’s crew on le trip from Fremantle.

Bill McNeil and his family—wife Yvonne, four-year-old daughter Yvette, and 10-month-old Andrew (born in Rabaul) —plan eventually to sail on to other parts of the Pacific, including Fiji and Tahiti.

Red Boomer is the name of a large red kangaroo in Western Aus tralia. • FAIRWEATHER, 58-ft Ameri can schooner, skippered by Mrs.

Suttie Adams, recently completed a voyage around the world. Fair weather began her voyage in Florida in 1960 and was in the Pacific (Marquesas. Fiji, New Zealand, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Port Moresby, etc.) in 1962.

Mrs. Adams took over as skipper of the schooner in May, 1962, when her husband. William Adams, flew back to the US on business. Mem bers of the crew included four mem bers of the Adams family, whose ages now range from 23 to 15.

Mr. Charles A. Borden, of Spin drift Point. Mair Beach, via Sausa lito, California, tells us in a note that Mrs. Adams skippered and navigated Fairweather over 30,000 miles during the past three years “thus adding her name to the grow ing number of competent women who have circumnavigated or made major trans-ocean passages as master or skipper of small cruising vessels.”

This is a matter of particular in terest to Mr. Borden, as he is writ ing a book on small ship cruising around the world called Sea Quest, which will include a chapter on “Small Ship Women”.

Early in May, Fairweather was sailing north to California from Manzanillo. Mexico. • TREKKA, 20-ft yawl, with 35year-old Clifford Cain and his wife Marian, of Monterey, California, arrived in Brisbane on May 14 after a 10,000-mile voyage from Cali fornia. Our last report on Trekka was when she arrived in NZ from Honolulu via Fanning Is.

Trekka was previously owned by a Canadian, Mr. J. Guzwell, who sailed her around the world. The Cains may attempt a circumnaviga tion, also, as they have found their vessel “a grand little boat” so good, in fact, that the trip across the Pacific was “deadly dull”, although the weather had something to do with this, too. ® VALKYRIE, 31-ft ketch with John Goetzcke. a 70-year-old Ameri can lone-hander, was due to sail from Brisbane in mid-May for the

Philippines. Mr. Goetzche, who began a voyage around the world at Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands, arrived in Brisbane in March last year after a 12-month voyage from Hawaii which took in Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand. ( PIM , May, 1964

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• SOUTHWIND, 30-ft trimaran, owned by American yachtsman Joe Hudson, left Suva for Vila on May 1 in company with the trimaran Melika (see below) and arrived there on May 14. Mr. Hudson who hails from Big Sur, California, arrived in Suva via Honolulu and Tahiti. o MELIKA, Australian-o wn e d trimaran, left Suva for Melbourne via Kadavu, New Caledonia and the New Hebrides on May 1. Noel Burchill, 33, and John Doolan, 24, bought the trimaran in Suva last year fr o m a New Zealander, Michael Cole, who had sailed the vessel from New Zealand to Fiji via the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga under the name Waka Torn (PIM, Jan., p. o ELEUTHERA, 48-ft steel ketch from Seattle with Earl Schenck, Jr., and his wife Paula will probably be cruising the Austral Islands of French Polynesia by the time this appears.

Eleuthera arrived in Papeete from Seattle last July and subsequently visited other islands in the Society Group (PIM, Oct., 1964, p. 107).

During the hurricane season— although hurricanes are uncommon in French Polynesia— Eleuthera was moored at Taravao, the isthmus that connects Tahiti-Nui, the main part of Tahiti, with the smaller Taiarapu Peninsula. Meanwhile, Mr.

Schenck flew back to Seattle to at tend to a few business matters.

On his return, the Schnecks planned to head for the Australs.

Mr. Schenck, by the way, is no stranger in the South Pacific. He knocked around the Islands for some time in the 1930’s and wrote a book called Come Unto These Yellow Sands.

"Cimba" in Port Moresby.