Craising Yachts

• ELEUTHERA, 48 ft steel itch, from Seattle was back in ipeete, Tahiti, in late October with irl Schenck, Jr., and his wife Paula, tting ready to sail to Hawaii after cruise to the Austral Islands.

Mr. Schenck tells us in a friendly ►te that in our June issue (p. 119) ; confused him with another person the same name, the author of a iok on the Pacific, published in the 30’s, called Come Unto These tllow Sands.

Mr. Schenck says: “This is our first p to the South Pacific, and I have ver written a book. You may be ;erested to know that the author’s n—also named Earl—is living here Papeete and that I met his father icn he visited Seattle in the early 40’s.

“The last bit of coincidence is that / father’s name is also Earl henck! Small world is it not? (The thor, Earl Schenck, is now dead).

“We thoroughly enjoyed our trip the Austral Islands where we ;nt a month and a half—visiting ivavae, Tubuai and Rurutu before urning to Papeete. They are nderful places to visit—off the iten track and with lots of Poly >ian hospitality. We had delightful its at each island. ‘Throughout our stay in French lynesia we have found everyone »st kind and helpful. We have ind the islands of French Polynesia be a wonderful cruising area.”

Eleuthero arrived in Papeete in tober last year from Seattle and >sequently visited other islands in Society Group. • WHITE LADY, 32 ft ketch m Sydney, with Joe and Ellen rt and their young son Joey, ently left Hawaii, their home for last two years, and headed for lifornia. n a note to PIM from California, ed October 27, Joe Hart said: . . we departed Honolulu on our ch White Lady and came to San incisco. We now have the White iy up for sale. We are presently wing on the 63 ft Cordanzo —a d-plated motor ketch out of San incisco owned by Denis Jordan. ,y we wish our many friends in the ith Pacific a fond hello through ir paper”. fhe Harts arrived in Hawaii in

December, 1963, after a trans-Pacific cruise in White Lady, from Australia via Lord Howe Island, Tonga, Fiji and Samoa. • KAIROS, 32 ft German sloop, was at Suva in October, and expected to leave early in November for New Zealand.

Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Koch, of Hamburg, she left there in May, 1964, on a round-the-world cruise which is expected to end in the northern summer of 1967. • DIOGENE, a 30 ft waterwitch designed ketch registered in Costa Rica (Central America), left Port Moresby on November 7 for Thurs day Island and Darwin via Yule Island.

Diogene arrived in Port Moresby on November 2 after a 11 day voyage from Honiara in the British Solomon Islands.

The owner-skipper Pierre Le Maire, a Frenchman, was ac companied by his wife Raymonde and five children.

At Yule Island, the Le Maires were to scrape and paint the bottom of Diogene while staying with the French Fathers of the Sacred Heart Mission. • MAR QUESA, 40 ft ketch, arrived in Papeete, Tahiti, on October 27 from Hawaii via the Marquesas.

On board were owner-skipper Harold Whilldin, his wife and James and Marie Anderson who are crewing to New Zealand.

In a letter to PIM from Tahiti dated November 1, James Anderson says: “We should arrive in Auckland about the first of January. Our ports of call between here and Auckland will be: Bora Bora, Raiatea, Tahaa, Rarotonga, several of the Samoan Islands, the Fijis, Norfolk Island, Russell and Auckland, New Zealand.

“So far we have hit Lahaina, Maui; Hilo, Hawaii; Taiohae, Nuka Hiva; Hannay. Ua Huka; Hakehetau, Ua Pou Tu Hera Hera, Tikehau; Tiputa, Rangiroa and Papeete, Tahiti.” © NEO VENT, 20 ft cutter owned and sailed by lone Frenchman Pierre Auboiroux from Noumea, New Cale donia, arrived in Port Moresby on October 18, on the first leg of a voyage round the world.

Neo Vent left Port Moresby on October 26 for Yule Island, head quarters of the French Order of the Sacred Heart Mission. The French missionaries are widely known for their hospitality to travellers, especially seafarers.

• KOTIMU, a 25 ft gaff-rigged cutter skippered by Nils Powell, of Timaru, New Zealand, arrived in Port Moresby on November 5 after a leisurely voyage of 37 days from Cairns, Queensland. Stops of several days were made at Great Barrier Reef Islands.

Nils Powell is accompanied by his wife E. (Billie) Powell and both have just obtained temporary positions with the administration in Port Moresby.

Kotinm (Maori for ebb tide) was built professionally in 1963 in New Zealand for the Powells. She has no auxiliary engine but this has caused no undue inconvenience so far—ac cording to Nils Powell.

The Powells left Wangaroa on January 3 this year and sailed via Lord Howe Island, Sydney and Aus tralian east coast ports.

They plan to sit out the hurricane season in Port Moresby then sail to Thursday Island, Darwin and across the Indian Ocean to South Africa about May, 1966. • VAQUERO, a 33 ft stem head cutter, owned and skippered by Chuck Kenahan, of New Zealand, is now at Weipa, Gulf of Carpentaria (Northern Queensland) after a

Launched in Nukualofa, Tonga, recently, was this catamaran, built by Mr. Alan Riechelmann, who is seen in the picture. —Photo: Klaus Reschke.

r age from Yampi Sound, Western stralia via Fremantle, Tasmania, >v Zealand, Australian east coast 1 Thursday Island.

'dquero , it is reported by Nils veil, of the Kotimu, will soon be ding for Port Moresby and sibly other ports in the Western ific,

» Rehu Moan A, 40 Ft

imaran sailed by Dr. David Lewis, ved at Rarotonga on October 10, days after leaving Huahine, in Leeward Islands of the Society ►up. fn board Rehu Moana with Dr. ns are his wife, Fiona, their two il daughters and a woman friend, s Priscilla Cairns. Miss Cairns, experienced navigator, has been ng independent observations with ruments while Dr. Lewis navigates catamaran by ancient Polynesian hods. These include observations he sun, stars, wind, swell and the it of birds. his leg of the circumnavigation accomplished in six days despite roken rudder shaft which had to supported with a rope sling. Dr. r is has said that the estimated ude was not more than 25 miles but he underestimated the speed sing 70 miles ahead of his nate. he Lewis’ were to continue to / Zealand after about a month’s at Rarotonga. • NINA, 34 ft ketch, arrived in :ualofa on October 29 from Bora a. Phil Fraser and Nick Stephen were on board, and, after a k’s stay in Tonga, they sailed for tralia via Fiji and New Cale ia. Part owner Bud Holmes un jnately developed hepatitis and ained in Bora Bora to return to olulu.

LADY LEE, 43 ft Atkin ketch ; and sailed by Fred and Doris phy, arrived in Honolulu on ember 24 after a 24-day trip i Bora Bora. he Murphys now regard Hono as the home port of Lady Lee, their South Pacific cruise from Canal Zone and Galapagos ids, to Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea Bora Bora, NARVAL, 35 ft gaff-rigged t owned by retired American 301. David Erlenkotter, was to i Honolulu on November 6 for Marquesas, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, »a, New Zealand and Australia. v members were John Martin, s Conroy and Ross Berry—all of Jose, California.

Narval was built in Denmark in 1958, and sailed to Honolulu under the name Red Witch in the early 1960’5. • MINERVA, 51 ft ketch from San Francisco, California, arrived at Honolulu in early November, after a 24-day trip from Pago Pago.

Aboard were Hugh Corum, owner, and crew members, Jeff Swanson and Peter Hope, of Brisbane. Previously the ketch had visited Noumea and Suva, where they spent two and a half weeks repairing hurricane dam age, then 11 days to Pago Pago.

The ketch has since headed for California.

•AW AH NEE, 52 ft ferro concrete cutter, arrived in Port Moresby on October 18, after a nine day voyage from Santo, New Hebrides.

On board were owner-skipper Dr.

Robert Griffith (veterinary surgeon), his wife Nancy and son Reid, aged 11, and a crew of four. The crew comprised Mrs. Marguerite Rouan, who is travelling to the Seychelles Islands to see her parents (she is the wife of the French District Agent for the Northern District of the New Hebrides); Bruce Roberts, a New Zealand draughtsman; Miss Margo Carpenter, an American teacher from Chicago, who was hoping to work

in the Territory for the Department of Education; and Keith Kingston, a New Zealander from the Bay of Islands, who left the cutter in Port Moresby to return to New Zealand.

Awahnee created much interest in Port Moresby among the yachting and shipping fraternity because of its ferro-concrete construction ( PIM, Oct., p. Ill), The Griffiths were questioned closely about the yacht, and items were broadcast over the

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Dr. Griffth claims that there are at least 30 ferro-concrete yachts existing in NZ, the USA and else where. The total cost of Awahnee’s cement rendered hull was £5OO.

The Griffiths left Port Moresby on October 22 for Darwin via Thursday Island, thence Christmas Island, Cocos Island, Chagos Archipelago, Seychelles, Madagascar then Durban, Capetown to Panama and their home in Hawaii. • CANAIMA, 38 ft German built steel ketch from La Guaira, Venezuela, arrived at Port Moresby on October 20 having left Honiara on October 11.

On board were her four Vene zuelan part-owners Antonio Moreno, 29, skipper; Joaquin Gareia, 28; Gregorio Redondo, 31; and Jose Fort, 24. All are merchant mariners. The spick and span nature of Canaima bore testimony to this. The 27-year old ketch took two years between 1936 and 1938 to build.

Canaima left Port Moresby on October 23 for Thursday Island, Darwin, Timor and Djakarta, and on around the world.

Canaima is named after a Vene zuelan district and means “God of the Jungle”, • ATEA, 30 ft fibreglass ketch arrived at Brisbane on October 19.

A tea left Long Beach, California, on June 29, 1964. She visited the Mar quesas, Tahiti, the Windward Isles, Rarotonga, Pago Pago and the Fiji Group. She arrived in Brisbane directly from Suva. On board are G. Simmons, his wife “Cookie” and their 15-year-old daughter, Carol.

The crew of A tea would like to hear from anyone who knows the where abouts of Simon Gulleck, who was supposed to leave Raiatea in a “small self-built” trimaran for Rarotonga on or about the end of May. They can be contacted care of Bulimba Post Office, Brisbane.

E Barlovento, A 65 Ft

American schooner, arrived in Pago Pago in early November for a stay of four to six months.

The luxury yacht is owned and

sailed by Mr. and Mrs. H. Han Wright, of St. Thomas, VI, and h been on its present voyage for t\ years. At ports of call, the coup shoot film for a television series.

Mr. and Mrs. Wright are i companied by Jack Thompson, t mate, two Tongan and a Fiji: crewmen. Previous ports of call ha been in the Bahamas, Jamaica, t Galapagos, Easter Island, Pitcaii French Polynesia, the Cooks, Fiji ai Tonga. • MIA MIA, 67 ft steel ket from Melbourne, called at Lo Howe Island in early Novemb while on the homeward leg of cruise to Middleton Reef, Norfo Island, Noumea and other islan ports, and the Queensland coast. T ketch which is owned and skipper by Geoff Hammond called at Lo Howe in July while on the outboiu cruise. • KUDU, 63 ft motor yacl arrived at Suva on November from the United Kingdom v Panama, Acapulco, San Diego, Sj Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Islai and Pago Pago, She expected to sail about fi days later for New Zealand.

On board were the owner, Mr. P Callow, his wife, their 21-year-o son John, Lieutenant-Commander A. Roe (skipper) and Pet Verhoeven, the cook.

She is powered by twin Roll Royce Falcon engines, and is fittt with radar equipment, radio, dep sounder and automatic pilot.

She also has a distilling plant f making fresh water at sea.

The "Dove" (pictured), with 16-year-[?] lone-hander Lee Graham and his two ca[?] will spend the hurricane season in Pa[?] Pago. He will continue his world cru[?] in April. In November young Grah[?] was in Apia, repairing a mast. —Photo: Warren R[?]