Cruising Yachts

• MARQUESA, 40 ft ketch, left Honolulu on August 1 for a cruise in the Pacific. On board were owner skipper Harold L. Whilldin, his wife Mary, daughter Tina, and Jim and Marie Anderson.

They planned to visit the Marquesas, Tahiti, Society Islands, Cook Islands, Samoa, Fiji, New Caledonia, Auckland and Sydney. • SEA SHARP, 25 ft yacht, with Mrs. Sharon Sites, 34-year-old Los Angeles widow, sailing solo, arrived in Honolulu on July 21 from California.

The first woman to make the cros sing single-handed, Mrs. Sites did the 2,225 miles in 40 days. • LADY LEE, 43 ft ketch, which was in the Galapagos Islands in February, was in Tahiti in June. On board are Fred and Doris Murphy, of Long Beach, California. • ELEUTHERA, 48 ft steel ketch from Seattle, with Earl and Paula Schenck, was back in Papeete, in mid-June, after a cruise to Bora Bora and Maupiti in the Leeward Islands of the Society Group.

Eleuthera arrived in Papeete from Seattle in July last year (PIM, June, p. 119). • SHIREEN, 52 ft ketch, dropped anchor in Nukualofa on August 11 and left for Auckland on 17.

Owner/skipper, Michael Crocket with a crew of three, is on a world tour, having left England in July, 1964. Shireeris last port of call was Rarotonga. She was carrying three passengers to New Zealand. • HIGHLIGHT, 35 ft ketch rigged trimaran, owned by John and Dave Glennie of NZ, was in Tahiti in late July waiting for Mr. W. E.

Glennie (the owners’ father) to join the party for a South Pacific cruise.

Highlight was attacked by a whale on the first leg of the trip, from Auckland to Rarotonga, and the hull was damaged {PIM, July, p, 25).

Repairs were made at Rarotonga.

The Glennies plan to be back in NZ by October. • PIPE DREAM, an American trimaran, owned and skippered by an American missionary, Alvar Wolfsen, arrived in Vila, New

Hebrides, on July 25 after a 12-day voyage from Lautoka, Fiji. Also on board were Wolfsen’s Japanese-born wife, Yashiko, and a 20-year-old Fijian missionary, Misiraini Seru.

Pipe Dream had spent four months in Fiji before leaving for the New Hebrides. • AIKANE, 43 ft Kettenburg sloop, owned and skippered by Jack Baskin, arrived in Honolulu from the South Pacific in June after logging more than 7,500 miles and touching 14 islands in the Marquesas, Tuamotus and the Society Islands.

Also on board were Benson and Janet Rotstein, and Norris Michael son, all of California. • ANDANTE, 34 ft fibreglass sloop, arrived in Apia on July 3 from Pago Pago with Don and Catherine Wood. They planned to spend a week at Savaii before sailing to Hawaii. • DAM ALA, 35 ft trimaran (we’ve also seen her name spelt Dombala), left Nelson, NZ, for Tahiti in early August after remain ing in port for two months while a new mainmast was being constructed.

On board were three Australians, Emile van Bommell, Bill Tournier and Neil Samson.

The original mainmast, which was 40 years old and had previously served in a ketch, snapped while they were crossing the Tasman from Melbourne. After visiting Tahiti, the crew plan to sail back to Australia in December. • POPEYDUCK, 20 ft yacht, built and sailed single-handed by

"Pipe Dream"

Englishman, Mr. W. A. Proctor, left loniara for Port Moresby on July 8.

Mr. Proctor, who is circum avigating the world from England, ill return to England via the idian Ocean, and the Red and lediterranean Seas. • MIA MIA, 67 ft steel ketch om Melbourne, owned and skip ped by Geoff Hammond, left Norfolk Island on July 17 for roumea and Brisbane.

Also on board were Frank arsons, Peter Neilson, Bill Grey and en Caithness. The ketch had pre ously called at Lord Howe Island. • SEA FEVER, 42 ft ketch, with airy and Margaret Alexander, their >n John, aged 10, and nephew ichard Lewis, arrived in Honolulu i July 31 after a 4J-year cruise ►und the world. (PIM, April, 1963, U 3).

Sea Fever, which was built in ipan, cruised to the American West oast via Hawaii to start her world ip. Thence she went to South Pacific >rts, Australia, Africa, 56 ports in e Mediterranean, across the Atlantic i the Caribbean, South America en Los Angeles via the Panama anal.

The Alexanders plan to stay in awaii indefinitely. • PAISANO, a 61 ft American ;tch, arrived in Port Moresby in irly August, with owner-skipper ►hn Hazelhurst, of Colorado. He to collect specimens of the Ter tory’s insect life for an American useum.

Also on board was his wife, anne, a Tahitian screen actress who >peared in the Marlon Brando film r utiny on the Bounty.

Our last report on Paisano was om Apia in mid-June, 1964. • MONSOON, a schooner, left onolulu in June for Fiji, with her vner, John Curran, of Fiji, Jim ill, Roland Ernst, and Roger and Jth Bath of the 37 ft ketch,

Au An Kai. The Baths arrived in Honolulu in February after a two year South Pacific cruise. • MARMADUKE, a yacht from Los Angeles, was one of the many in Papeete harbour for the Bastille Day celebrations in July. She arrived via Nukuhiva in the Marquesas.

On board were owner-skipper Patrick Ballenger, his wife, their two children and three crew members. • ULULANI, 63 ft ketch, skip pered by Ray Jones, left Sydney on August 21 for a four-month cruise

to Rarotonga, Tahiti, Panama, and Nassau, in the Bahamas.

Jacques Meiss, John Morow, Robert Finlayson, Michael Knight, j an Maddocks and George Archibald are a i so ma king the trip. xhe owner, Mr. Benjamin Moore, who sailed jjlulani to Sydney last October, was to fly home to America. • CANAIMA, a 38 ft German built steel ketch from Venezuela, left Pa g° Pa g° for A P ia on August 16 after a week’s stay.

On board were her four part

vners, Antonio Moreno, skipper, aquin Gareia, Gregorio Redondo id Jose Fort.

The 20-year-old Canaima is on >yage round the world which is pected to take 20 months. She has ready visited Colombia, Panama d the Galapagos, Marquesas, ►ciety and Cook Islands. • TAHITI TU, a double-ended cht sailed by Mr. and Mrs. Walter, rived in Papeete early in July :er a 30-day cruise from Honolulu. • LUCENT, a 68-year-old lugger ;ged ketch built for the North a mackerel fishing grounds, arrived Rarotonga on July 6, after almost ing wrecked some days earlier tering Oneroa Passage, Mangaia, heavy seas. Her unusually rugged nstruction enabled her to with nd the heavy pounding she re ved.

Aboard Lucent were Roger neson (skipper), his wife, David Ifour (who visited Rarotonga re itly on Barlovento) , Richard Six rry, and his Tahitian wife Moea. cent is on a shell-collecting cruise the Pacific, under the direction Mr. Sixberry, a malacologist at ; Smithsonian Institute.

Before reaching Rarotonga, Lucent led at Raivavae, Tubuai, Rurutu i Rimatara in the Austral Islands French Polynesia. She passed inhabited Maria Island, east of mgaia, but bad seas prevented a iding being made.

Phe crew plan to collect shells from the Cook Islands except Manuae. • AWAHNEE, Dr. Robert iffith’s 56 ft ferro-concrete yacht, ived in Pago Pago harbour on y 16 from Bay of Islands, New iland. On board were Robert and ncy Griffith, their son Reid, aged and three crew members.

• MAMARI, 28 ft ketch, sister vessel to Marco Polo, was cruising in the Society Islands in late July.

On board were owner-skipper John Bracegirdle, from England, Gavin Marks and Keith Higgins, from NZ, and an Australian, Tim Seale.

Mamari left Auckland on May 9 and visited Raoul Island in the Kermadecs, and Rarotonga before reaching Tahiti in time for the Bastille Day celebrations.

However, the crew found the fete disappointing and Tahiti below ex pectations because of the high cost of living and the number of military personnel in Papeete.

After cruising around Huahine, Raiatea and Bora Bora for a month, Mamari was scheduled to return to NZ via Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji, • BARBARA ALLEN, 30 ft gaff rigged yacht, with a crew of four, which was reported missing last month (p. Ill) on a voyage from Honolulu to Pago Pago, is safe.

After a rough trip, the yacht duly reached Pago; went on to Apia, where the crew got the flu; set off for Tonga, but finished up being blown to Futuna; then reached Suva in mid-August for a refit after almost being stuck fast on a reef at Nanuku, east of Taveuni. • SOUTHWIND, 30 ft trimaran built in California by Jo Hudson, was anchored in the Sarakata River, Santo, New Hebrides, in July while the occupants, Jo and his wife Jenny, fabricated a self-steering wind vane for the rudder.

They were planning to return to the USA via the Ellice and Phoenix Islands, and Honolulu—a three to six-month cruise, • SPREE, a ketch from Picton, NZ, arrived in Rarotonga early in July on the homeward leg of a

cruise to French Polynesia. She came via Bora Bora and Raiatea. On board Spree are Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Grigg and Messrs. A. W. Stewart and A. P. Tuxford. • OKEANOS, Joe and Benita Pachernegg‘s 39 ft staysail schooner arrived in Suva in early June from Tahiti and Pago Pago, American Samoa. Okeanos (formerly Moon fleet) has done 40,000 miles since she was last in Suva six years ago.

In that time she has been right round the Pacific, in the Caribbean and back through the Pacific.

The Pacherneggs are now thinking of selling Okeanos and building a larger boat in Chile to do charter cruises to Juan Fernandez and the Patagonian channels, or of building a new yacht and taking charters in the Fiji area. They may visit Sydney first and perhaps lecture about their cruise.

In a letter to PIM from Suva dated July 23, the Pacherneggs re ported that they had had a “rather hectic trip” from Tahiti.

“We were intending to head for Rarotonga, and in fact were almost in sight of it when we ran into some quite foul weather, making it im possible to anchor off Avarua,” they said. “Instead we changed course for Pago, where we arrived a week later on a howling windy, rainy day.

“It was raining almost all the time during our stay in Pago. Still we managed to see a little of Tutuila.

We took a ride out to the east side of the island on one of the local buses. A beautiful ride indeed. Un spoiled villages and most impressive scenery with the ocean within stone throwing distance of the road.”

Among the more re cent of the many landfalls made by Joe and Benita Pachernegg in their schooner "Okeanos" was Pitcairn Island,

but deteriorating

weather didn't allow them to stay for long.

The 28 ft ketch "Mamari", photographed in Auckland.