Cruising Yachts
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• WAHLBORG, 66 year-old yedish schooner, arrived at Raro nga, Cook Islands an February 10, Dm Tahiti. Her crew is reported comprise Swedes, Americans, maicans and a Frenchman.
Wahlborg was built in 1900 and rved as a Baltic lumber schooner. • VALHALLA, 61 ft yacht, med and skippered by 22-year -1 Ann Brittain from Greenwich, mnecticut, set out from Sydney mid-March on a coastal “shake wn” cruise in preparation for a yage across the Pacific to the rribbean, where Miss Brittain hopes do some charter work.
Helping Miss Brittain sail the :ht will be a crew of four young :n—three in their twenties and e aged 19. Two of the crew are jerienced yachtsmen, but the iers have done only a little sailing, i were recruited in Sydney.
Miss Brittain, who is fulfilling an bition she has had for many irs with the cruise, came to Aus lia from the United States about months ago and worked for a :hting magazine. She bought lhalla, which was built 14 years >, last March. \s skipper, Miss Brittain envisages trouble with discipline. • VOLADORA, an American aaran, was wrecked at Bora Bora, nch Polynesia, in February. i STORMVOGEL, 73 ft ocean ing ketch skippered by Peter denberg, called at Madang, 4G, in late February, en route to ng Kong where she is to compete the Hong Kong to Manila ocean e.
Ihe crossed the Pacific last year M, Nov. p. 113) and competed the annual Sydney-Hobart yacht 5' —taking line honours. Earlier, came second in the Los Angeles nolulu race, breaking the record a day and a half, hiilt in South Africa in 1961, rmvogel usually carries a racing v of 16 but at present has a crew 10, including two women.
\ New Endeavour, 132 Ft
sail schooner skippered by Cap- George Keeble, arrived in Syd on March 15 after a leisurely se of about eight months from nsgate, England. She came via
Panama and crossed the Pacific, calling at the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, the Cooks, Tonga, Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.
The vessel carried 17 crew including three women, each having paid about SA 1,000 for the trip. The owner, Mr. Geoffrey Preston Layton, was also on board.
After a stop of about six weeks in Sydney for a refit, New Endeavour is to sail to Mackay, Queensland, from where she will make 10-day “Captain Cook Cruises” around the islands in the Great Barrier Reef.
During the cruises New Endeavour will have a crew of seven and accommodation for 24 tourists. Prices
range from SAI6O for a “bachelor bunk” to SA22O for a twin-berth cabin.
New Endeavour originally saw service in Scandinavian waters as the Cito.
The present owner, Mr. Layton, discovered her in Denmark and after a refit had her registered in London under the present name in 1965.
Built in 1919, she is one of the few square-rigged sailing ships re maining. She has three 80 ft masts, which carry 12 sails under full rig!
Captain Keeble’s trip to Australia was marred by the death of his seven-month-old son Gordon, who accidentally suffocated in his bed
at a Sydney hotel the day after Captain Keeble had seen him for the first time. • MONSOON, 45 ft schooner, arrived in Honolulu from the South Pacific in early February with owner Hugh H. Gordon, skipper Des M.
Kearns and crew Vanaka Haiti and Pua Terootao. Monsoon left Honolulu last June bound for Fiji, under John Curren of Fiji. • 5/7757, 42 ft block island ketch, built and sailed by Americans John and Mary Lavery, has been in Honolulu recently after a 13-day passage from the Marquesas late last year.
Sitisi is on the last leg of a circumnavigation which started from San Diego in 1958 and is expected to finish in mid-1966.
The Laverys crossed the Pacific from Sydney in 1965, calling at New Zealand, the Cook Islands, the Society Group and Marquesas Islands. • SOLO, 57 ft Sydney racing yawl, sailed by owner Vic Meyer and crewmen R. Blaikie and G.
Swanson, reached Nukualofa from Honolulu on March 16, and sailed for Australia, via Norfolk Island, on the 21st.
Blaikie and Swanson decided to fly home from Nukualofa, so Meyer took off lone-handed for the re mainder of the trip. • CARRONADE, 30 ft Sydney sloop, was in Honolulu at the end of February. She arrived in Hilo, Hawaii, on October 30 last year, and in December moved to Honolulu.
Her skipper is Andrew Wall, who planned to stay in Hawaii for six months from December. • BRAMBLING, 37 ft steel yawl, owned and sailed by William Horton, a Honolulu mailman, arrived in Honolulu on February 13, after a 109-day voyage from Tasmania.
Horton picked up Peter Adams as crew in Auckland, and John Hund hammer in Tahiti.
The yawl was designed by Allen Payne and built in Tasmania.
In September, 1960, Horton and two crewmen sailed an English sloop from Ipswich, England, to Hawaii in 126 days. The sloop was lost 10 months later when she drifted on to a reef outside Honolulu’s Ala Wai boat harbour. • GRISETTE, 49 ft cutter, built in England in 1904, and sailed by Dick and Toni Terry, is in
Hawaii after sailing from Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, late last year.
The Terrys left England in August, 962, and sailed to Spain, the Canary slands, West Indies, Panama Canal, he Galapagos and French Poly lesia. They plan to stay in Hawaii ndefinitely. • SANS SOU Cl, 91 ft wooden uxiliary ketch built in Australia in 949, will leave Hawaii for Tahiti oon with a Californian family, Mr. nd Mrs. Eric Schiff, of California, heir three sons Arius, Rickey and anil, and two daughters Penny and Jarina.
They sailed to Hawaii from Los mgeles recently in 13 days.
Next on their itinerary are Fiji, amoa, New Guinea, Indonesia, gypt, Canary Islands, the Carib ean, Panama and back to California, chiff, the skipper and navigator, is laking a TV movie series of his unily’s experiences. Patricia Vaughn, ife of the ship’s doctor, is school :acher for the children. • CYTHERA, 50 ft Sydney yacht wned by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Fenton, to leave Sydney in mid-April to mtinue the cruise which was inter ipted three years ago when two ew members stole the yacht during stopover at Lord Howe Island.
The yacht was later recovered at orfolk Island after being damaged a collision with the Colorado del r ar. The two thieves were later ich sentenced to four years’ im isonment in a Sydney court.
Mrs. Fenton said in a letter to 'M in March that she, her husband id daughter Penny would sail on eir new voyage to San Francisco a Lord Howe Island, New Zealand, arotonga, Tahiti, the Tuamotus, arquesas and Hawaii. They would ive one crew member.
“We certainly do hope for better ings this time round, and let no an say that the spirit of adventure dead!” Mrs. Fenton said. “We em to be living up to the old che—‘if at first, you don’t cceed. . . ” • ARITA, 48 ft ketch, built by r. R. M. Mcllvride of Paihia, New aland, was to sail for Fiji in late arch from Whangarei, New Zea id.
Mr. Mcllvride built the ketch from kauri tree which he bought while was still standing.
Arita displaces 14 tons and is wered by a 65 horsepower diesel, e has a ketch rig with a sail area 940 square feet.
Mr. Mcllvride will be accompanied his voyage by his wife.