Craising Yachts

• STORMVOGEL , 73 ft luxury ttch, with a crew of 12, was in Suva r a few days early in October, en •ute to Auckland and Sydney for e annual Sydney-Hobart yacht ce. She had earlier touched at arotonga, Pago Pago and Nukua fa.

Owned by Dutch millionaire. Mr.

arnelius Bruynzeel, Stormvogel is

ported to have cost more than 50,000 to build.

The skipper. Captain John Miles, England, who has been with the tch for three years, planned to ive her at Auckland. His replace ;nt will be Peter Lindeberg, of ockholm, who joined the ketch at va.

Stormvogel came second in the >s Angeles-Honolulu race, breaking ; record for the voyage by a day d a half.

From Australia, Stormvogel will il to New Guinea and the Far East. • VERONA, 131 ft barquentine, rived at Suva on October 7 in the urse of a cruise round the world, crying a complement of 25. com ising the skipper, first mate, gineer, doctor and cook as pro isionals, and 20 amateurs.

The amateurs are mainly Ameri a students who joined the Verona the Bahamas.

The Verona was built in Britain d is American-owned, and each ar makes a cruise lasting eight to months to distant parts of the ►rid.

In the Pacific she has called at the Galapagos, Nukuhiva in the Marquesas, Pitcairn, Papeete and Suva.

After Suva she was scheduled to sail for the New Hebrides and New Guinea and points west.

She is under the command of Christopher B. Sheldon. • BOUNTY, 34 ft wooden ketch, which has been cruising in the South Pacific since May with Desmond Elliott, his wife Dorothy, and their 10-year-old son Alan, of New Zealand, has been sold in Pago Pago to Lafayette Young, of Utulei.

Tutuila, a teacher with American Samoa’s Department of Education.

The Elliotts arrived in Pago in Bounty from Niue on August 28.

Bounty was built in Auckland in 1953. • TAWARRI, 42 ft sloop, with skipper Peter Mounsey, his wife Lesley and a friend, Norman Ferris, left Sydney on October 10 for a world cruise via New Guinea. She reached Lord Howe Island on October 16. Next stop was to be Noumea.

Three years ago the Mounseys returned from a world cruise which lasted four years. • SPREE, a ketch built in Picton.

NZ. sailed into her home port on September 18. after a five-month cruise to the Tongan, Cook and Society Islands.

On board were owner-skipper Hugh Grigg. a NZ sheepfarmer. and Reuben and Kora Marsters. • TSUNAMI, 28 ft sloop from Auckland, spent a fortnight at Norfolk Island in September. She

arrived from Auckland on September 11 after a 10-day run from New Zealand slow because of bad weather.

Tsunami was skippered by John Goldsmith and carried a crew of two, lan Scarborough and Graeme Baldwinson. The ketch was designed by John Woolacott and launched 18 months ago.

She left Norfolk for her home port on September 25. • CORSARIO, Italian naval training vessel with Lt.-Commander Alberini and 15 ensigns, called at Fanning Island in mid-October bound for Pago Pago, Suva, Noumea and Sydney to compete in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race in Decem ber.

• Cos A Nostra, 30 Ft

trimaran, which visited Rabaul last year, spent three weeks at Cocos Keeling (Indian Ocean) in August- September.

The trimaran reached Cocos Keeling by way of Thursday Island, Portuguese Timor, Bali and Christmas Island.

On board are Tom Schultz. 22, of Upland, California, Douglas Bartlett, 22. of Los Angeles, California, and Hans Peter Wetzel, 28. of Heidel burg. West Germany. They began a trip round the world in Japan in May, 1964. • VALKYRIE, 31 ft ketch, lone handed by John Goetzcke, a 70-year old American, was in Manila in August after a three-month trip from Brisbane via the Great Barrier Reef, Thursday Island. Timor and Indo nesia. Valkyrie spent about 12 months in the South Pacific in 1963- 1964. She is on a voyage round the world from Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands. • TREKKA, 20 ft yawl, with Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Cain, of Monterey. California, reached Cocos Keeling (Indian Ocean) in October from Brisbane.

Trekka left California on a voyage round the world in June, 1964, and called at Hawaii. Fanning Island, Samoa, Tonga, New Zealand and Norfolk Island before reaching Brisbane on May 14.

She sailed from Thursday Island to Cocos Keeling in 32 days, being becalmed for 12 days during the voyage. The yacht left for South Africa via Rodriguez and Mauritius on October 5 after a week’s stay. • THLALOCA, 20 ft sloop, which left California on a Pacific cruise in 1962, was another visitor

"Stormvogel".

Cocos Keeling in September tober.

On board are Hein and Sigrid nker, formerly of Germany, now turalised Canadians.

Thlaloca (Goddess of the Gulf earn) left Cocos Keeling on tober 3 for South Africa via •driguez Island and Mauritius. • HEATHER, 28 ft cutter, owned J sailed by New Zealander, Larry Isen, was in Tahiti in early tober on the last leg of a trip md the world.

Heather left NZ on April 6, 1963, 1 has sailed west via Indonesia, cos Island, South Africa, the West lies, Panama, and the Marquesas.

From Tahiti Nilsen planned to it Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Niue, oul Island (Kermadecs) and issell in the Bay of Islands—all fore Christmas. • MINK, 38 ft ketch, left Nukua a, Tonga, on October 12 for Fiji J New Zealand. On board were i White, Michael Neale and >wnie Muir, Mink passed though the Panama nal in March from the Mediter lean and Europe. She visited rotonga in September. • MAMARI, 28 ft ketch, with ner-skipper John Bracegirdle and crew of four, left Nukualofa on tober 12 after a 13-day visit. She s bound for Fiji and Auckland, Mamari began a cruise to the >tern Pacific from Auckland in ly.

• KAIROS, 32 ft West German steel sloop, arrived at Suva, Fiji, in early October, for a month’s visit before continuing to New Zealand.

On board were owner-skipper Ernst Koch and his wife, Elga.

Since leaving Hamburg in May, last year, Kairos has sailed across the Atlantic to the West Indies, and through the Panama Canal to the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Bora Bora and Pago Pago. • SI-TI-SI, 40 ft American ketch, was in Rarotonga in September en route to Tahiti. • REHU MOAN A, 40 ft British catamaran, sailed by Dr. David Lewis, arrived in Huahine, Society Islands, from Tahiti in early October.

Also on board were Dr. Lewis’ wife, his two children and a woman friend.

They are on a cruise round the world from Britain. They entered the Pacific via the Straits of Megellan, and have visited Valparaiso and Easter Island.

Dr. Lewis is reported to be navigating only by the methods used by the ancient Polynesians—watch ing the wind, sun and stars and estimating time. He made the 100 mile run from Tahiti to Huahine in 27 hours, including eight hours hove to.

The next leg is 500 miles from Huahine to Rarotonga.

An article by Dr. Lewis on Poly nesian navigational methods appeared in the Journal of the Polynesian Society for December, 1964. • TRYPHENA, a 35 ft ketch rigged Lodestar trimaran from New Zealand left Tonga for Fiji and New Zealand on October 12 after a stay of a week or so in Nukualofa. The trimaran has been cruising the Pacific for six months. The skipper is D.

Frearson.

One of the trimaran’s owners, Leon Hill, said in a note to PIM from Rarotonga in mid-September: “Rarotonga was our first port of call and there we stayed for 21 weeks before moving on to Tahiti for the Bastille Day celebrations.

“From there we cruised some of the Society Islands, namely, Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa and Bora Bora. Our next leg took us back to Rarotonga for a clearance to Aitutaki for 10 days. We returned to Rarotonga for the self-government celebrations.” • EUROPE, 67 ft schooner, skippered by Frenchman, Rene Corpel, arrived at Mahe, Seychelles Islands, on September 10. She is on

the homeward leg of a cruise west ward around the world from Monaco.

Europe left Monaco on April 15, 1962, with a crew of five. In 1963-64 the schooner crossed the Pacific.

Europe’s present crew are Walter Gevull, a German; Rob Hill, an American; and David Sharp and Alan Forbes, Australians, They hope to reach Monaco on April 15, 1966—making the cruise exactly four years long. • PAISANO, 56 ft Marioni ketch, skippered by an American, John Hazlehurst, arrived in Darwin on October 2 from Port Moresby and Thursday Island. The ketch is on a voyage round the world. Next stops are Cocos Keeling and Ceylon, thence via the Red Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic to New York.

Larry Nilsen of "Heather".