Cruising Yachts

0 Morning Sun, 32 Ft

rmuda-rigged ketch, with skipper ian Wilson and Paul Winterhalter, th from Sydney, arrived at Fairfax rbour, Port Moresby, on August after a 22-day voyage from ►umea, New Caledonia, tVhen Morning Sun set sail from •umea on July 28, the crew in ded to set a course for Fiji. The t week was spent cruising around Loyalty Islands, but after battling itrary winds for the next three is, they decided to run before the ith East Trade Winds and head fards Port Moresby, fhe crew plan to cruise the Papua 1 New Guinea coasts, outlying nds, then eastwards across the rific. i LARNTARNI, 48 ft cutter, has n bought from Mr. W. Wakefield, Melbourne, by Lee Quinn, the lerican yachting skipper, who is 1-known in the Pacific for his ference for all-girl crews. Quinn’s vious vessel, Neophyte, a 45 ft :h, was cut in two by a freighter Sydney heads in June {PIM, July, 107). )uinn will sail Larntarni under name of Neophyte Too. The :er was being refitted at Bulimba, jensland, in early September, anwhile, Quinn, with two crew nbers from Neophyte, was look for one or two new girl crew nbers. The girls who stayed with inn after Neophyte was sunk are bara Sodt, an American, and ny Shaddock, from Tasmania. )uinn expected to leave Brisbane nid-September for a cruise to the tier Reef, Torres Strait islands, n Guinea and Indonesia. > BARLO VENTO, 65 ft Ameri schooner, owned and skippered Mr. and Mrs. Hardie Wright, Tonga in mid-September for a. Barlo Vento has spent the last years on a round the world trip ch is expected to last more than years. r or the past 2i months, the ights have been filming Tongan toms and crafts and following whaling boats.

'rom Suva, Barlo Vento will sail Vanu Mbalavu, Fiji, to film the drive, an unusual ceremony ried out on a fresh water lake.

• KAIROS, a 32 ft West German steel sloop, arrived in Pago Pago from Tahiti on August 26. Since leaving Hamburg on May 27 last year, she has called at Falmouth, Vigo, Lisbon, the Canaries, the West Indies, the Panama Canal Zone, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tahiti and Bora Bora.

Owner Ernst-Jurgen Koch, of Hamburg, is accompanied by his wife, Elga. “Everything was interest ing and we have had no troubles on the trip”, Koch told a PIM correspondent in Pago. 0 DAMALA, 35 ft trimaran, owned and skippered by Emile van Bommell, which left Nelson, NZ, for Tahiti early in August ( PIM, Sept., p. 107), was forced to put into Auckland on August 26. Her ply wood fairing between the hull and two floats had been damaged by heavy seas while going up the east coast of the North Island. SPREE, a ketch from New Zealand, sailed back to Rarotonga in early August suffering severe storm damage to the coach deck after a huge wave broke over her about three days out from Raro tonga en route to New Zealand.

On board were owner-skipper Hugh Grigg, Pat Tuxford and Reuben Marsters, a Cook Islander, who was going to NZ to join members of his family. 0 GANNET, 20 ft Bermuda sloop, sailed by Ron Russell, of Great Britain, arrived in Brisbane in early September after a 16-day crossing from Suva. Since setting out from Britain in May, 1961, Russell has covered about 17,000 miles in Gannet —sailing solo almost all the way.

He sailed first to the Mediter ranean, then to the West Indies— making the Atlantic crossing in 40 days. Since then he has called at a number of Islands ports.

He plans to stay in Brisbane for some time. 0 REHU MO AN A, 40 ft British catamaran, skippered by Dr. David Lewis, arrived in Tahiti in early September, nearly seven weeks after leaving Easter Island.

With Dr. Lewis are his wife Fiona, daughters Susan and Vicky, and a woman friend, Miss Priscilla Cairns.

They are on a cruise round the world from Britain.

The voyage started last summer, when Dr. Lewis sailed from Plymouth to Newport, Rhode Island, in the trans-Atlantic single-handed race.

His family joined him in the United

States for the passage down through Magellan Straits to Valparaiso.

From Tahiti, the catamaran will sail for New Zealand, where Dr.

Lewis spent his childhood and did his first sailing. • PAISANO, a 56 ft Marioni ketch, skippered by John Hazlehurst, a stockbroker of Colorado Springs, USA, left Port Moresby on Sep tember 14 for Thursday Island.

With crew members Chuck Nettuno and Marshall Lubin, both of Cali fornia and John’s attractive Tahitian wife Jeanne, Paisano will then go on to Darwin, Cocos Island, Seychelles, Aden, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and across the Atlantic to New York.

They expect to be in New York by September, 1966.

The Hazelhursts liked Moresby very much especially the hospitality of the yachting fraternity.

Paisano means “fellow country man” in Spanish and was bought by

tin Hazlehurst in 1962. She was merly named Aurelia and was ilt in 1924 at Massachusetts, USA.

Faisano left New York early in S 3 and sailed through the Panama nal and reached Port Moresby via main Pacific Islands. • AWAHNEE, 53 ft ferro-cement ter, arrived in Suva on August from Pago Pago, Apia, Wallis i Futuna. She had earlier sailed m Auckland to Niue.

Carrying owner-skipper, veterinary geon Dr. Robert Griffith, his wife I their son, Reid, aged 10, and “rew of three, Awahnee stayed in fa until mid-September when she led for Rotuma, the New Hebrides, Solomons, Papua-New Guinea I Australia. [he Griffith family hope to go on England, and return to their native ifornia in about two years.

Jsing a blueprint drawn by Uffa c, the famous yachtsman friend the Duke of Edinburgh, Dr. fifths built Awahnee in 10 months Auckland, using two tons of lent, five tons of sand, two tons steel, 3i tons of ballast steel and • tons of lead.

Tie wire, reinforced with steel s laid from keel to gunwale and t to stern, was shaped into a II and the cement “plastered on”, i ferro-cement hull needs no sup ts so that there is 30 per cent. *e living space inside the vessel. > BOUNTY, 34 ft wooden ketch, ved in Pago Pago, American loa, on August 28 from Niue. On rd were owner-skipper Desmond ott, his wife Dorothy, son Alan, i 10, and Luman H, Moody, of lolulu who joined Bounty in iti, where the original NZ crew nbers signed off. he Elliotts left their home in NZ May 5. They sailed to Rarotonga Tahiti, then, with Luman Moody :rew, cruised the Society Group Aitutaki, Niue and American 10a. 1 ULULANI, 63 ft ketch, skip id by Ray Jones, reached Auck [ from Sydney on September 3 r riding out eight gales in the nan. She left Sydney on August on a four-month cruise to the amas (PIM, Sept., p. 109).

Sari Marais, Royce

ert’s 45 ft ketch, arrived in the ihelles (Indian Ocean) from apore in late July—after a long I in South-East Asia. Sari Marais in a cruise round the world in

the Virgin Islands in May, 1960, and spent many months in the South Pacific. From the Seychelles, she was to head for Madagascar, Mombasa and the Suez Canal. • CAN AIM A, 38 ft ketch from Venezuela, left Suva for the New Hebrides on September 9. The ketch, which is on a voyage round the world, had reached Suva from Apia on September 1.

On board are Antonio Moreno, 29, skipper; Joaquin Garcia, 28; Jose Redondo, 31; and Jose Fort, 24. • W A KAY A, 42 ft ketch, arrived in Nukualofa from Tahiti at the end of August with Auckland as the next port of call. Wakaya was built from kauri by skipper/owner Ted Hay, of New Zealand, who sailed her to Tahiti from Auckland with a crew of three. At Tahiti, Ed Zitnik, an American, joined the ketch, but he plans to make for Suva when she leaves Tonga for Auckland. • WINDSWIFT, 34 ft ketch from Wanganui, NZ, called at Norfolk Island en route to Noumea early in September. Owner-skipper is Mr. Jack Nightingall. • JINNI, 40 ft American ketch, owned and skippered by Reemes Mitchell, which cruised extensively in the Pacific last year, sank in about 70 ft of water after striking a sand bar off Moreton Island, near Bris bane, Queensland, on August 31.

A Brisbane diver, Mr. J. Engwirda, has contracted to salvage and slip Jinni. • FELIX J, a 30 ft converted junk, sailed solo by Felix John Noble, a 63-year-old American of Polish descent, was wrecked on the south-east point of Christmas Island, in the Central Pacific, on the even ing of August 17.

Noble had set out from San Diego, California, 60 days earlier “to see the world”.

A report from Tarawa says that Noble is no stranger to shipwreck.

He has been wrecked three times previously, and was once towed into Honolulu having lost his rudder.

Noble, a vegetarian, who is retired and does a little painting, said that as he approached Christmas Island he calculated his position accurately, but in his excitement used the chart of Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean, and so turned north to round the south-east tip instead of south.

He was caught in an on-shore tidal current and when his vessel would

not answer the helm, he threw out anchors.

They held long enough for him to get through the breakers before the cables snapped and his boat was driven over the reef on the high tide and on to the beach on the edge of the Bay of Wrecks. This area is barren and waterless, with a shale and salt pan surface.

Noble spent two days salvaging what he could from the wreck. He then set off with three quarts of water to follow a tar-sealed road from the south-east end of the island.

He walked for 36 hours and while resting under a bush he heard a vehicle pass on the road. He put his pack in the middle of the road and the next vehicle, a 10 ton truck full of labourers from Poland Village, saw it and stopped.

Noble had intended to water at Fanning Island, but was driven south by severe storms.

Schoolboy Sailor

Resumes Trip

Sixteen - year-old American schoolboy Lee Graham (pictured), who is sailing his 24-foot sloop “Dove” round the world, left Honolulu on September 15 for the South Pacific.

His only companions are Suzette and Joliette, his cats.

Graham expected to reach Canton Island in about 10 days.

From there he will go on to Fiji.

He reached Honolulu from San Pedro, California, on August 18 after a voyage of 25 days (PIM, Sept., p. 99).