Cruising Yachts
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• REN EG A AT, 32 ft New Zea land yacht owned and skippered by 28-year old Ted Dosch, of Holland, arrived in Sydney from New Zealand in early January on the first leg of a 3i-year round-the-world cruise.
Also on board were Pamela Cranmer and Nigel Lang from Britain, and Jennie Rhys-Jones of Lindfield, New South Wales.
Lang, a student, is to remain in Sydney, but the three others plan to continue to Noumea, Fiji, Hawaii and through the Panama Canal to Europe, after about five months in Sydney.
Ted Dosch, a boatbuilder, built Renegaat during 5k years in New Zealand. • WIND WAGON, 53 ft ketch from San Francisco, arrived in Auck land on December 14 from Raro tonga, Cook Islands, with Mr. and Mrs. R. Connelly and Mr. P. Munch.
They are making a world cruise from San Francisco, whence they sailed in April, 1965. • MATOMA, 46 ft schooner, was scheduled to leave Port Moresby on December 19 on a three-month cruise taking in Samarai, the Calvados Chain in the Louisiade Archipelago, the Solomons and the GEIC.
Five P-NG yachtsmen were to make the trip.
They are the owner-skipper, Ron Devereux, of Posts and Telegraphs; Keith Strachan, of Steamships slip way; George Putsay, Stores and Supply; Graham Shuttleworth, of Burns Philp; and Horst Grochau, of Nova Constructions, Madang. The first four men are from Moresby. o NAM SANG, 62 ft ocean racing cutter, arrived in Auckland in mid- December 10 days after leaving Tahiti with owner-skipper John W.
Thompson, and crewmen Ray Jones, Vern Todd, Denny Denison and Charlie Dole, plus Dr. Anthony Crossley, a British biologist going to a post at the Australian National University, Canberra, and Mrs.
Crossley.
Nam Sang won the 130-mile blue water race in Hawaii in July and came fifth in the annual Trans-Pacific race. Since her conversion from a ketch in 1957 she has won the Trans pacific race twice—in 1957 and 1961.
The cutter was to remain about three weeks in Auckland before con
tinuing to Sydney, New Guinea and the Philippines. • HIHIFO, 42 ft sloop from Mel bourne, with owner-skipper Stan Field, Ron Fineman and Neil Cook, was making an extended tour of New Zealand in late December before heading for the Pacific.
The three men planned to leave Auckland about mid-March and head for the Pacific—possibly Tahiti.
Hihifo, built in 1947, won the Sydney to Hobart yacht race twice under her original name of Westwood.
Hihifo is Tongan for Westwood. 9 REHU MOANA, 40 ft British catamaran owned and skippered by New Zealander Dr. David Lewis, arrived in Auckland from Rarotonga on December 14, and was greeted with a blaze of publicity in the NZ Press.
Using only the navigation methods of the ancient Polynesians—studying the stars, wind and current directions
and watching the habits of seabirds —Dr. Lewis had sailed his craft right across the Pacific from Tahiti.
At the end of the last 1,600-mile leg from Rarotonga, Dr. Lewis was only 40 miles too far east.
He was accompanied by his wife, daughters Vicky and Susan, as well as a woman friend, Miss Priscilla Cairns.
By arrangement, Miss Cairns plotted the course of the Rehu Moana but was not to inform Dr, Lewis of the catamaran’s position unless danger threatened or they passed their objective.
At one stage during the cruise from Rarotonga Dr, Lewis abandoned the old Polynesian methods of navi gation when he saw two aircraft, which he supposed were flying north and south between Auckland and Nadi. By the time he discovered his error Rehu Moana was 200 miles off course.
After a stay of about four months in New Zealand, Dr. Lewis plans to return to Britain by way of Australia and the Cape of Good Hope.
On this leg of the cruise, he will use radio, modern navigation instru ments and charts. • WANDERLURE 11, 75 ft steel motor yacht, with Americans Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heintz was due to leave Acapulco, Mexico, soon after Christmas, on a trip round the world —the first leg being across the Pacific.
The yacht is designed along the lines of a tuna fishing boat, but the layout and mass electronic equipment on board is reported to be the last word in cruising comfort.
She is powered by a pair of 180-hp GM diesels and has a range of 5,000 miles, cruising at 10 knots.
Mr. and Mrs. Heintz completed a three-year cruise around the world in a smaller motor sailer in 1964. • SIGNUS A, 35 ft trimaran, which began a world cruise from England in June, 1964, arrived in Sydney on Christmas Day. Skipper is V. Radhakrishnan, of India. Crew members are David Morris, of Great Britain, and Sid Shaw, of San Francisco.
Signus A entered the Pacific via the Panama Canal in July and called at the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Societies, Cooks, Samoa, Fiji and Noumea. • NINA, 34 ft ketch, arrived in Sydney on Christmas Day from New Caledonia and Fiji, with Phil Fraser and Nick Stephenson. Our last report on Nina was from Nukualofa (Dec., p. 115). From Fiji she sailed in com pany with Signus A.