Cruising Yachts

• KUDU, 63 ft motor yacht, reached Suva from Auckland on November 22 with her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Callow; their 21year-old son John; Lieutenant- Commander R. Roe, RN, retired (skipper); and Peter Verhoeven, cook.

The yacht is on a cruise round the world which began in Plymouth on March 29 last year. She entered the Pacific via the Panama Canal {PIM, Dec., p. 116). • TRYPHENA, 35 ft ketch-rigged Lodestar trimaran, was back in Auckland in late November, after a cruise to French Polynesia and back, during which the main island groups were visited {PIM, Nov,, p. 115).

Tryphena began her cruise on May 1. Her crew comprised Don Frearson, Leon Hill and Doug Cuthell.

• KAIROS, 32 ft German sloop with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Koch, of Hamburg, reached Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, on November 25 from Suva and Kadavu, Fiji. The Koch’s are on a voyage round the world, which began in May, 1964. and is expected to last three years.

They will leave New Zealand in April for New Caledonia, Port Moresby, South Africa and home. • TUARANGI, 38 ft double ender ketch, completed a three-year voyage round the world of about 30,000 miles when she sailed into Auckland in late November.

Two of the three members of the ketch’s crew on her return. Jack Crooks, skipper, and Peter Baxter, navigator, made the round trip. The third crew member, Mr. T. Clark, an American, replaced the other original crew member, Jack Hargraves, in Grenada, West Indies.

Tuarangi’s first landfalls after leav ing New Zealand were Lord Howe Island and Sydney. She then sailed up the east coast of Australia and on to Indonesia, Christmas Island, Cocos Island, Mauritius, Reunion and Durban. After a year in Durban,

Tuarangi continued her voyage via the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, the West Indies, Panama, the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti and Rarotonga. • APOGEE, 30 ft American yacht lonehanded by Mr, A. Eddy, reached Bay of Islands, New Zealand, in mid-November.

Since he left his home state of Virginia 2i years ago, Mr. Eddy has sailed through the Caribbean and Pacific, making stops at the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji.

At one stage, between the Galapagos and Marquesas, he covered 3,000 miles in 22 days. • MAMARI, 28 ft ketch, with owner-skipper John Bracegirdle, Gavin Marks, and Keith Higgins, re turned to Auckland on November 22 after a six-month cruise to Tahiti, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji. • VERONA, 131 ft barquentine, skippered by Captain Christopher Sheldon, reached Binnen Point, Madang, late in November. She is on a cruise round the world with 24 young Americans. Calls have been made at several Pacific islands ( PIM, Dec., p. 109). • ONE STEP, 63 ft Chinese junk, which was seen last year at Lord Howe Island, Noumea, and in the Loyalty Islands, caught fire and sank 10 miles off Trial Bay, northern New South Wales, on December 8. (Over)

"Tuarangi" leaving Durban to return to New Zealand.—Photo: Bianca Lavies.

The four members of the crew were rescued by the 10,000-ton Greek vessel Cassian Mariner, which radioed Sydney that all were well.

One Step, which was built in Hong Kong and sailed to Sydney in 1964 by Mr. Dudley Shuter, a Queensland farmer, left Sydney in March last year with a crew of eight on a cruise of the Pacific. Her skipper, Noel Stroud, 30, of Sydney, and crew of photographers, divers, engineers and an artist planned to film and sell underwater adventure documentaries. • AEGEAN, 38 ft Bermuda-rigged ketch with Dale and Betty Nordlund and their two young daughters, Shelley and Jule, has returned to Vancouver after nearly three years of ocean cruising.

The Nordlunds, who worked in Rabaul for several months early last year, sailed from there to Japan via two rarely visited Polynesian outliers —Nuguria Atoll (otherwise known as the Fead Islands), north-east of New Ireland, and Kapingamarangi, the southernmost island in the Carolines. From Japan, Mrs.

Nordlund and the children flew home in eight hours, while Mr. slogged it out by sea with two young Ameri cans as crewmen. His time to Vancouver was 45 days. Date of arrival: late July. • CORSARO 11, 68 ft Italian naval training yacht, arrived in Sydney on December 7 after a two month cruise from Hawaii which in cluded calls at Fanning Island. Pago Pago, Suva, the New Hebrides and Brisbane.

The purpose of her visit to Sydney was to take part in the annual Sydney-Hobart yacht race, beginning on December 26. • MINK, 38 ft ketch, reached Waitangi, New Zealand, in mid- November with owner-skipper Jim White, 25, and Michael Neale, 20,

both New Zealanders; and Downiei Muir, 24, an American. For White,, it was the end of 3i years of ocean i cruising.

White left New Zealand in July,, 1962, and joined the American f yacht Svea in Darwin, in which he, sailed across the Indian Ocean toe Ismailia. During the next fewv months, he was a crew member ofi several yachts cruising the Mediter ranean. He then bought Mink inr Venice; and in September, 1964, t began sailing her home from Maltae with a friend, Harry Hudson.

Hudson became sick in Balboa andfc was replaced by three Americans, oft whom Muir was the only one too complete the voyage. The others leftf in the Galapagos Islands and atfj Tahiti, where Michael Neale signed} on. • NEOPHYTE TOO, 48 ft stoops skippered by well-known American yachtsman Lee Quinn and with an all-girl crew of four, left Porii Moresby on November 30 to sail through Torres Strait to Darwinr Cocos Island, and across the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea and Mediten ranean. .

Neophyte Too, which Quimii bought after his ketch Neophyte wa* cut in two by a freighter off Sydney Heads last June ( PIM, July, p. 107)( arrived in Port Moresby on Novemn ber 28, after an uneventful four-day* crossing of the Coral Sea from Cairns, Queensland. The trip t<: Moresby was to catch the tail enu of the South East Trades to pas? through Torres Strait.

Neophyte Too went on the sh]i in Cairns to make sure she was um damaged after spending two days oic a reef near Cairns.

Quinn’s crew on reaching Moresb were: Pat Seedsman, 22, a Mels bourne secretary; Jennifer Whaite, 20, a Sydney University studemr Camilla Maxwell, 24, a Melbourne teacher; and Barbara Sodt, 29, as advertising copywriter of Chicago^

Home-Built

Recently completed

by Rabaul surveyor John Williams is the 30 ft trimaran "Towana " . The product of 18 months of backyard work, "Towana" will be used in Rabaul racing, a sport which has a big interest for fans of the Aquatic Club.

Photo: Max Hayes.