raising Yachts
pp. 111-113 · Read in the full issue
I NIPPER, a 20 ft yacht, owned [ skippered by Dave Jones, arrived Nukualofa early in June from NZ.
It entirely by her skipper, Nipper a water line under 15 ft and a ught of only 3 ft. Jones aims to Nipper single-handed to Australia. TYRANT, 60 ft yacht, has been Nukualofa recently. Her owner/ •per, Roy Jackson, has been otiating to buy an island in Fiji, :re he intends to build a 75 ft imaran. Mr. Jackson goes cruis for nine months every year in ant which comes from Russell, of Islands, New Zealand. • WIND-SWIFT , 34 ft auxiliary h owned and skippered by Jack itingall, is to take a five-man sdition from the Wanganui Under ;r Club to hunt for sunken war s, rare fish and seashells in the ►mons. Organised by the club ident, Mr. Peter Spurdle, the four th cruise may also take in the r Hebrides, New Britain, New ■donia and Norfolk Island.
BARLOVENTO, 65 ft yacht ed by Mr. and Mrs. Hardy jht, arrived in Nukualofa, Tonga, luly after two years’ cruising ugh the Caribbean, Galapagos ids, Easter Island, Pitcairn id, French Polynesia and Fiji, le Wrights, assisted by Mr. Alain rteville, a French photographer, been filming life on various ds for a TV series, uring eight weeks in Tonga, the f hoped to film the Tongan lod of whaling, and shark calling le northern islands.
WINDSONG IV, 48 ft ketch, h sailed from Melbourne in ary, 1964, on a cruise of the ic, is likely to be seen in the )bean late this year following an isive cruise down the West Coast merica. illip Weate, the ketch’s owner, us in a note written in Fiji on ing visit to Australia, that after ing in San Francisco in late mber they hauled out in San il and later went on to Los les and down to Mexico, arrangement, Windsong IV was over in Acapulco by a joint , and, skippered by Peter Reilly, n Francisco, she was sailed back
to that city. Phillip Weate joined the 40 ft Islander gaff-yawl Maori of San Diego, skippered by Ed Jones and crewed by his wife Pat, 9-year old daughter Karen and a cook. They sailed to the Canal Zone, where Weate saw Stormvogel, Pacifica, Vaerenger and Minx pass through. • LARNTARNI, a 48 ft racing yacht, berthed at Whangarei, NZ, in June with her skipper/builder Mr. W.
Wakefield in search of a replacement crew. The original crew of four flew back to Australia after the yacht was pounded by stormy seas during the voyage across the Tasman.
The eight-year-old Larntarni, which has taken part in many ocean races, has a 64 ft mast and a working sail area of 1,100 square feet.
Mr. Wakefield, who is 71, has nothing definite planned for his three month cruise of the Pacific, but wants three experienced crewmen to accom pany him. • BALI HAI, a new 28 ft sloop owned and skippered by Bill Finna more, arrived in Port Moresby, P NG, on June 10 after sailing from Cairns via the Barrier Reef, Thursday Island and Daru. Bali ’Hai is con structed along the same lines as the yacht in which Captain Slocum first sailed solo around the world, 1897- 1900. However the Bali ’Hai has a 52 hp Turner diesel auxiliary engine.
After working in Moresby for a while, Bill plans to cruise in New Guinea waters before returning to Cairns. • BALI HAI, Mr. Lindsay D. Mee’s 75 ft luxury motor yacht (not to be confused with the yacht above) left Nukualofa on May 31 for Vavau, then planned to visit Fiji, New Caledonia and other Pacific islands before returning to Australia. Those on board included Mr. Mee, skipper Peter Barnes and Sir Arthur Warner.
Mr. Mee, who represents various Australian manufacturers, will try to arrange for manufacturers in the areas he visits to finish and sell metal goods moulded in Australia.
Bali Hai left Sydney in March on a trading cruise of the Pacific. ® WAKANUI, a 27 ft Auckland ketch skippered by Mr. Phillip Sharp, was reported overdue after leaving Suva on May 22 for Whangarei with a crew of three.
The Marine Department in New Zealand asked shipping to be on the lookout for the yacht which was expected at Whangarei in late May or early June and still had not arrived by mid-July.
Sharp is accompanied by James
Davies and an unnamed man who joined Wakanui at Suva. • ONE STEP, a 60 ft Chinese junk owned by six New Zealand and Australians, almost capsized on June 23 when tipped on its beam end by a huge wave whipped up by gale force winds in Moreton Bay, Queens land.
The junk left Sydney earlier this year on a Pacific cruise and when hit by the wave was en route to Brisbane from Noumea. • SHE, 28 ft Auckland ketch owned and skippered by Mr. G.
Duckett, entered Whangarei harbour on June 21 after turning back from a cruise to Noumea. She was pre viously the subject of a number of searches over a wide area when Duckett reported his companion, Michael Robinson, to be suffering from dizzy spells following a fall against a bulkhead. He had ap parently recovered by the time She reached Whangarei. • REHU MO AN A, 40 ft British catamaran from which nothing had been heard for 38 days, arrived at Easter Island on July 10 from Valparaiso.
The yacht, with New Zealander, Dr. David Lewis (skipper), his wife, two children and a woman friend, Miss Priscilla Cairns, suffered a power failure during the trip. Rehu Moana left Easter Island on July 14 for Mangareva Island. She is on a trip round the world from Britain.
"Bali 'Hai", 28 ft sloop of Cairns, in Port Moresby harbour in July.
Photo: Bill McGrath.
• JINNI, 40 ft American ketch wned and skippered by Rheems [itched, sailed on June 19 from ffiangarei, NZ, on a Western Pacific uise, with a crew of Australians id New Zealanders. In July the !tch was towed into Tweed Heads, SW, with a damaged motor and lapped steerage. • TRYPHENA, a ketch-rigged Klestar trimaran from NZ, arrived Rarotonga from NZ in late May. ie is on a cruise to Tahiti, Fiji and ber Islands groups. On board were r three owners, skipper Don earson, and crew Doug Cutnell and on Hill. • ASTROLABE, 50 ft yacht, was :ently at Finschhafen, arriving from mg Kong, via the Philippines. On ard were owner-skipper Captain lams, his wife, Winnie, and two Je crew. After leaving Finschhafen • Astrolabe headed for the Tro ands, Samarai and Cairns. The trolabe was built in Hong Kong Captain Adams. She is equipped h a diesel engine. • AWAHNEE, a new 52 ft cutter h a concrete hull, was scheduled leave the Bay of Islands, NZ, at end of June for Tonga with ner-skipper Dr. Robert Griffith, his e Nancy, son Reid and two crew n. The Griffiths plan to go on 18-month cruise to Fiji, Australia, ith Africa and England before ing to the United States.
"he Griffiths sailed to Auckland July in the yacht America which / bought in Honolulu following loss of the original Awahnee in Tuamotus. )uring the construction of the new ahnee near Auckland, the Griffiths d aboard the America. i LOLLIPOP, a 20 ft yacht with msville carpenter Les Hore, wife mie and son Larry, aged nine iths, arrived in Port Moresby 5 24 from Daru as deck cargo on Burns Philp coastal vessel Kalili. ollipop of plywood construc , was purchased in Townsville by Hore in 1960 and the northward ige commenced in mid-1963. The i sector of the voyage from rsday Island commenced on June id on arrival at Daru on June 15 sjas decided to freight Lollipop loresby as the strong south-easter jmg across the Papuan Gulf Id have made for a long and diffi voyage. js Hore will work in Moresby as irpenter for a building firm and
later will cruise around the western Pacific Islands.
Gennie Hore is a Torres Strait Islander from Darnley Island. • ELSIE, 30 ft cutter with Mel bourne Beach (Florida, USA) yachts man Frank Casper sailing solo left Moresby Harbour on lune 16 for Durban, South Africa, via Torres Strait and Cocos Island. He reached Cocos on July 21. ® ATOM, 30 ft Tahitian ketch, with New York yachtsman Jean Gau sailing solo, left Port Moresby on June 29, also headed for Durban, via Torres Strait and possibly Cocos Island.
However, Jean Gau has sufficient provisions and water to undertake this 7,000-mile leg of his second time around the world in the Atom and may not call at Cocos Island. • TROPIC SEAS, 36 ft Tahiti ketch left NZ in early May and reached Rapa on May 23 after a very rough passage. From there to Tahiti and, after a month in port, left on June 29 for Honolulu via Rangiroa and the Marquesas. The crew comprises John and Brian Land rigan, Arthur Elliot, Tony Ledwidge, and Jock Elliot. They expected to reach Honolulu by early August. • FAIRWEATHER, 58 ft Ameri can gaff schooner, which recently completed a voyage round the world (PIM, June, p. 119) has been sold in Sausalito, California.
Her skipper, Mrs. Sutfie Adams, was to leave Sausalito for New York about the third week of July to be married and sail as mate on a 40 ft catamaran in the West Indies.
Mrs. Adams—in the words of Mr.
Charles A. Borden, of Spindrift Point, Mair Beach, via Sausalito— is one of the “growing number of competent women who have circum navigated or made major trans-ocean passages as mate or skipper of small cruising vessels”. We inadvertently misquoted Mr. Borden on this score in our June issue. • HIERRO, a new yacht, owned and sailed by Annie and Louis Van De Wide, left Belgium early in July on a world cruise which will take in the South Pacific.
The Van De Wieles are recipients of the Blue Water Medal of the Cruising Club of America for a competent circumnavigation in their 45 ft gaff ketch Omoo, which was well known in the Pacific a few years back.
• SAMARANG, 55 ft schooner, tied up in Sausalito, California, on July 9 completing a two-year cruise to the South Seas.
Owner-skipper, George Renfro of San Francisco, his wife Pat the mate, and crewman Gil Kruse reported light winds and an uneventful 19-day crossing from Honolulu.
The Renfros earlier explored the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Society Islands and Hawaii “trying to find and see a few places off the beaten path”. Renfro, owner of a histology laboratory, kept up with his business affairs by ship’s radio while cruising in French Polynesia.
O EXTENDED A D OLE S - CENCE, 32 ft American trimaran which left Pago Pago for Honolulu on April 12 and which was reported missing in our July issue (p. 107), is now feared to have been lost.
Extended Adolescence was being sailed solo by David Meigs, 23, of Atherton, California, Meigs’ mother, Mrs. Harvey Richards, said in a note to PIM on July 7: “We had a brief moment of hope when the High Com missioner in the Solomon Islands cabled that he understood the Extended Adolescence was in the Fiji Islands, but this turned out to be an error. International Radio Amateurs also tried in vain to get word from or about David between June 20 and 27”. • ANDANTE, 34 ft fibreglass sloop, owned by Americans Don and Catherine Wood, was in Pago Pago in late June. Andante has visited the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Cook Islands, NZ and Tonga since leaving her home port of Seattle.
The Woods plan to cruise to Wallis Island, the New Hebrides, Fiji and New Caledonia, before returning to Seattle. They may also visit other islands. • BARBARA ALLEN . 30 ft gaff rigged yacht owned and sailed by Earl Axtell, has been reported mis sing on a cruise to Pago Pago from Honolulu.
Richard Gehenig was also reported to be aboard the yacht, which was expected at Pago Pago, on June 1.
People in Tonga have been asked to watch for the yacht. • SI-Tl-SI, 40 ft American ketch last reported in Sydney (May, PIM) was in Whangarei, NZ, in July. She is on a world cruise with owners Mr. and Mrs. John Lavery.