[?]raising Yachts

» Wanderlure 11, 114 Ft

rida motor ketch, owned by Carl [ Eleanor Heintz, of San Fran 0, left Tahiti on December 1 to * the Heintzs on their second ise around the world.

Tie ketch was built for the Heintzs October, 1965, and carried out ex dve trial runs in the West Indies up the west United States coast, cruised a month in the Gulf of ifornia and made a record run nine days across the Pacific to lolulu. Leaving Honolulu last ober, the Heintzs sailed Wander ' II by Fanning Island to Tahiti.

Fanning Island they were given oyal welcome by the only two opeans on the island, Phil Palmer John Fleetwood, hi this cruise the Heintzs hope visit many Pacific Islands they sed on their first trip, four years . First stop was to be Pago 0, then Apia and Fiji about De iber 18. After a month’s rest in , they plan to move north west, t the Banks Islands, Santa Cruz, Solomons, New Britain and on Madang, about February 20. liey will afterwards head for an via the Carolines, the Philip ;s and Taiwan, and on to Europe tb- Mediterranean. i TAMURE, 37 ft New Zealand :h, reached Durban on November ifter a westward trip across the th Pacific which included Fiji, v Caledonia, Thursday Island, win, Cocos and Mauritius.

'he three New Zealanders, Mac 1, Gerry Chaillet and David :ter, plan to spend three months Durban to earn some hard cash 3re sailing off to England and i home to Auckland. > SANDEFJORD, 47 ft South ican ketch, sailed home to Durban November 8 after a 21-month umnavigation with five men and irl. They received a tumultous wel le, with confetti being showered n an aircraft. Owners Pat and ry Cullen are now busy putting sther a film of their adventures. ?he girl on board, Jennifer de Wet, ame engaged to a crew member, lie Louw. Mr. Louw picked up engagement ring from a Thursday md pearl diver on the trip, nifer and another crew member,

journalist Tom Maginnis, are think ing of writing a book.

American international hitchhiker, Wally Stright, also a crew member, caught itchy feet on his return to South Africa and didn’t know whether to visit the United States or Australia next. • REHU MOANA, 40 ft cata maran ( PIM, Sept., p. 109) arrived in Durban on November 10 from Darwin on a world tour. Skipper Dr.

David Lewis’ wife Fiona contracted jaundice in the Cocos and flew ahead to meet him in Durban.

With the couple’s daughters, Suzie, 5, and Vickey, 3, who stayed on board, the family will spend Christmas in Durban, before leaving for England via the Cape of Good Hope. Also aboard was Priscilla Cairns, from England. The Lewis’ hope eventually to settle in the Pacific but our Durban correspondent doesn’t say where. • CALIFORNIA, a barquentine, and the MAC HI AS, a schooner, arrived at Honiara on November 19 from Honolulu. The University of Hawaii has chartered the yachts, skippered by Larry Briggs and Bill Austin, for scientific work.

They were to return to Honolulu around Christmas. • SEETEUFEL, 32 ft schooner (PIM, Oct., p. Ill) left Honiara in November to visit the Florida (Gela) Islands, Yandina and Gizo.

Rolf Ohvak, the German-born captain, couldn’t sign on a crew in the Solomons. He hoped to have more luck in New Guinea in Decem ber, and after that he will sail where the wind and moods take him.

• THUMBERLINA, 20 ft yacht, arrived at Auckland on December 10, after a 7,000-mile voyage from Vancouver.

The yacht was designed by the owner, Ken Weis, a draughtsman, who says he intends to sail her from port to port “for the rest of his life”.

"Wanderlure II" in Papatoi Bay, Moorea, ready to take off on her second leg around the world.

The crew of the "Rehu Moana", in Durban. PlM's Durban correspondent, Bianca Lavies, was first to greet them — after walking to the yacht over sand banks. Dr. David Lewis with Vickey (left), Suzie and Priscilla Cairns. See story.

• ARIADNE, 69 ft ketch from ►ndon, reached Nukualofa in tober from Rarotonga. Owner pper, Tom Newland, with a crew eight, hoped to have Ariadne New Zealand in December for a it.

Fhe Ariadne originally belonged a Scottish laird, and was then for my years working as one of the I Thames sailing boats, taking jpers on outings.

Fom Newland bought the ketch London and is taking her to New aland waters to refit and use as a asure craft. The engine broke svn in Panama and the rest of the > was being done under sail. i SAFARI TOO, 34 ft Australian ch, sailed by German Kurt Frost, English wife Pat, and Mauritian w member Harry Cain, arrived at rban on November 12 from mritius. They don’t know how g they will stay. iafari Too is on a round-the-world i which started in Sydney last July. . Cain flew back to Mauritius ;r arriving at Durban. The Frosts t and married in Johannesburg ! years ago. They moved to Aus ia and built the ketch, then set without any sailing experience.

I DOVE, 24 ft fibreglass )op, skippered by 17-year-old ehander Lee Graham, arrived at uiara on November 20. Aboard i an extra passenger—a young cat iham took aboard at Suva to re ze the two lost since he left Cali nia in October, 1965. He was t by his father at Honiara. Next itory is New Guinea.

I PRIVATEER, 36 ft trimaran, rying a crew of three, is missing a trip from Sydney to San Fran o. She left Sydney on August and was due in San Francisco on member 15. )n board were Mr. Hedley Nicol, Cleveland, Brisbane, who designed built the trimaran, Mr. Gus dwin, of Manly, Queensland, and . E. Van Bommell, of Victoria.

Tie last message from the trimaran ; on August 21, when she was 300 5s off the Australian coast. Nicol i sent an “all-well” message to wife.

Irs. Nicol said late in November was very worried about her band.

Jicol intended to exhibit Privateer the Long Beach yacht show hop eventually to break into the US ht market

• KISMET, ketch, arrived at Suva in November, carrying owner skipper Sadun Boro, 38, of Turkey, and his German-born wife, Oda, plus Mico, a 16-months-old cat They are attempting a world voyage, and plan to stay in Fiji till the hurricane season is over.

They set out from Istanbul in August, 1965, and reached Fiji via the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tahiti and Vavau.

Mr Boro is claimed by Turkish newspapers to be the first Turk ever

to attempt a world voyage in a yacht. • Mr. J. Walrave, of Bowen, on Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, has reminded us that Bowen has an all weather boatharbour which could be helpful for cruising yachts seeking shelter and supplies. He said many yachts had called at Bowen recently and had found facilities “beyond their expectations.” • Late runner ahead of the South Pacific hurricane season was the 50 ft sloop Astrocyte, which sailed into Nukualofa on December 10. On

rd were skipper/owner Dr. Chas. □ld and wife, with Mrs. June s and Mac. McLaren crewing far as Fiji, where the Astrocyte [ hole up for the hurricane season, lie launching of the Astrocyte in icouver in 1961 was the end of en-year dream for Dr. and Mrs. uld. Backyard built, with the en siastic help of neighbours, the rocyte embodies everything that Ices a cruising yacht a home, ich in effect it is. The Goulds e sold their home and plan a ;e-four year world cruise. Their i so far has taken in many of smaller islands in the various ups, and they feel they’ve seen Pacific still unspoilt by tourism, upiti was their last port of call ore Nukualofa. After Fiji they I head for New Zealand and Aus lia. » RONGOMAU, 50 ft motor ch, after a five months’ cruise und the Fijian outer islands, re ned home to Wellington, New Zea d, with an unusual souvenir of cruise—a shark’s tooth fhe owner of the ketch, Mr. H. nock, of Nelson, NZ, said he eked up” the tooth on a six-day ► from Suva to Cape Brett. ‘One night we were shocked when ngomau shook from a terrific d. We continued on to Whangarei ere we found five holes in the idwood. ‘A shark’s tooth was firmly em- Ided in one. It was the most un lal experience of my 40 years of iting,” he said.

Vlr. Dimock said the worst part the trip was from Auckland to Jlington, as “Cook Strait lived up its reputation,”

Fhe return crew consisted of Mike ler, navigator, two Fijians, Mr. mock, and his niece, Rosaline ad wick, 17. The ketch had sailed Fiji as a mother ship for the ckland-Suva Yacht Race. • AWAHNEE, 52 ft ferro-cement ter, with Dr. Robert Griffith, his fe, Nancy, and son, Reid, aged 12, ived at Pago Pago on November to end the Griffith’s second cir mnavigation.

Their first trip was in their wooden vahnee via Suez and Panama nals; their second was mainly in s ferro-cement Awahnee, via Good ipe and the Horn.

Phey started their second voyage Awahnee I in Honolulu in July, 63. After this vessel was wrecked Vahanga Atoll (Tuamotus) in auary, 1964, they built their pre it vessel in New Zealand.

In a note to PIM, Mrs. Griffith

said the cutter had had a good passage from Callao, Peru to the Marquesas; 25 days for 4,000 miles.

“Every day the miles slipped past pleasantly. We saw porpoises and small whales in the Humboldt,” she said.

They sailed via Tahiti, Huahine and Tahaa to Pago.

“We stopped for a couple of days at Suwarrow hoping to find Tom Neale. However, there was no one there, so we finished off the bananas and mangoes we had saved for him, and caught some crayfish and green fish on the reef,” she added.

The Griffiths expected to leave Pago in November via Suwarrow and

Manihiki for their home at Hono lulu.

A Chilean, Jaime Lopez, of San tiago, a Swede, Roland Gillstrom and a Tahhitian, Teka lotefa Te tunaui, made up the crew. • ALTAIR, 50 ft ketch, left Wel lington for Sydney in December to start in the Sydney-to-Hobart yacht race on Boxing Day. The year-old ketch will be one of two yachts from Wellington and four from Auckland representing New Zealand in the race.

Altair’s skipper is Grahame Moore, 25, son of the owner, Mr. S. O.

Moore. Members of the crew are Jim McMillan, Bruce Champion, Michael Lund and David Larkin.