Cruising Yachts

• NOMAD, 49 ft New Zealand yacht, arrived in Sydney in mid- December from Vila, New Hebrides.

On board were the owner-builder Bryan Williams, his wife Pauline, ind their three children. The family is on a world cruise.

They left NZ last April and have since visited Rarotonga, Aitutaki, French Polynesia, Samoa and Fiji. • APOGEE, Mr. A. Eddy’s 30 ft >racht from Newport, Virginia, arrived in Sydney on January 3 from Vila and New Caledonia.

Apogee has sailed through the Caribbean and Pacific, with stops at ;he Galapagos, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Tonga and Fiji, since leaving borne in mid-1963. • INNISFAIL, 45 ft ketch, left Sydney on January 15 for San Francisco, via South-West Pacific Islands, Tahiti and Hawaii.

The skipper is Peter Kenny, 43, an Irish-born engineer, who came to Australia after World War 11.

With him are three Australians, Michael Lane, lan Roche and Dick Williams, two Americans, Dick Knight and Dave Wenger, and a Canadian, Brian Smedley.

Kenny said before he left he ex pected the voyage to take about six months. • TREASURE, 45 ft cutter from Southampton, England, left Sydney on January 14 for Nelson, New Zealand, with John Guzzwell, his wife and their two small sons.

Treasure crossed the Pacific last year and was in Rarotonga last September {PIM, Oct., p. 115).

The Guzzwells intend to settle in New Zealand. • TE MATANGI, 35 ft Cali fornian ketch, which ran aground on Matahiva Atoll (Tuamotus) last July {PIM, Aug., 1966, p. Ill), has been abandoned by her American skipper, Jack Ferguson.

A few days after the stranding, high seas shoved the ketch 150 feet across the jagged coral making sal vage impossible.

When last we heard, Jack was still on the atoll with its 158 people, ex pecting to be picked up by the 40ft ketch Valiant.

Jack built Te Matangi himself and had been cruising the Pacific in her since 1955. He was sailing solo when the ketch was wrecked. • DOVE, 24 ft fibreglass sloop, with solo American yachtsman, Lee Graham, 17, and his cat aboard, left Honiara in mid-December for New Guinea.

Graham arrived in Honiara from Vila in November.

He left California in October, 1965, in the hope of becoming the youngest yachtsman to sail solo round the world. So far he has done about 7,500 miles.

After New Guinea he plans to sail to Darwin, South Africa, the Carib bean and through the Panama Canal to home. • WANDERLURE 11, 73 ft motor sailer, arrived in Suva late in December from St. Petersburg, Florida, via the western Caribbean, Panama Canal, San Francisco, Hawaii, Tahiti and Samoa.

She is owned by Carl and Eleanor Heintz who were to leave Fiji late in January to cruise north through the Banks and Solomon Groups to Madang.

They will then sail to Japan, and the Far East, across the Indian Ocean, and through the Mediter ranean to Florida.

Mr. and Mrs. Heintz finished a world tour about three years ago in Wanderlure I. • REHU MOAN A, 40 ft cata maran, skippered by New Zealand yachtsman Dr. David Lewis, left Durban for England at the end of December.

Rehu Moana started a round-the world trip from England in 1964, and was in the Pacific in 1965-66, Dr. Lewis and his family will sail back to England via Walvisbaai, Luanda, Sao Tome, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Azores. They expect to arrive in England in July.

The Lewis family will then leave for the Pacific again. Dr. Lewis has been offered a fellowship with the Australian National University, Can berra, doing research into ancient Polynesian navigation. He and his family will cruise from island to island for two years. • ASTROCYTE, 50 ft sloop, is in Suva for the hurricane season. She left Vancouver on June 17 on a round-the-world voyage which is ex pected to last two to three years.

The owner, Dr. Charles E. Gould, of Vancouver, built the yacht, and named it after a brain cell.

With him are his wife and Stewart McLaren.

After the hurricane season Dr.

Gould plans to sail for New Zealand, via Samoa and Tonga. • CALYPSO, 30 ft Queensland ketch, with Mr. Ron Mitchell and their son Ron, arrived at Lord Howe Island just before Christmas en route to New Zealand. The Mitchells are on a 12-month cruise of the South Pacific. • FORTUNE, 34 ft yacht, which made an 18-month cruise of the South Pacific in 1962-63, will sail the Caribbean this year.

Owner-skipper Dave Goffeney and his wife, Nellie, have had the yacht equipped with an after-cabin and a cutter rig in refitting for the Carib bean. • KAIROS, 32 ft steel-hulled German sloop, arrived at Durban on December 16 from Mauritius on a circumnavigation.

The owners, Mr. and Mrs. E. Koch, are thought to be the first German couple to attempt a circumnaviga tion.

From Port Moresby in June {PIM,

IN FROM NOUMEA: The 36 ft New Zealand cutter "Matatua", which has been cruising the Pacific since last April, was being refitted in Brisbane recently prior to sailing back to New Zealand via Sydney. "Matatua" (seen here off Kadavu, Fiji) is skippered by David Fletcher, with George and Kathleen Fletcher and Nigel King as crew. Their last cruise was a "fast and pleasant trip from Noumea".

Aug., p. 113), they sailed through Torres Strait and on to Christmas Island, Cocos and Mauritius.

The Kochs were caught in the tail •nd of the cyclone Angela when ap proaching Mauritius —the worst part of the trip so far.

The couple intended to continue their voyage—around the Cape and back to Hamburg—in mid-January.

• Karen Margrethe, 38 Ft

American yacht, sailed into Durban an December 7 with a Californian family, Fred Davenport, his wife, Virginia, and their 10-year-old laughter, Circe. They have spent the past six years on the Karen Mar ket he.

They left San Diego in April, 1960, md sailed via the Marquesas, Tahiti, Jora Bora, Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, the Seychelles, Mombasa md Lourenco Marques to Durban.

The Davenports were surprised to ice Kurt and Pat Frost, of the Aus ralian yacht Safari Too, tied up at i Durban jetty. The families last met n Sydney when Kurt was building lis boat.

Circe will attend school in Durban or a year before the Davenports ail on around the Cape, through the anama Canal and on to Hawaii vhere they intend to settle. • SI-TI-SI, 42 ft block island :etch, has completed a circumnaviga ion which began in San Diego in .958. With Americans John and tfary Lavery, the ketch crossed the in 1965 from Sydney, calling it New Zealand, the Cook Islands, he Society Group, the Marquesas and lawai'i. • BOUNTY, 42 ft ketch, reached Apia in late December from Pago Aboard were Mr. and Mrs. jordon Johnson, a Californian :ouple, and their 18-month-old son locky.

Mr. Johnson left his job with a Californian telephone company last October, moved to Pago Pago with lis family, bought the Bounty, made sxtensive repairs to the ketch and et out on December 20 on the first tage of a Pacific cruise. It was a ong-awaited adventure.

Now, however, the family may lave to abandon their cruise as locky was sick thoughout the trip o Apia and he may have some nalady affecting his sense of balance.

A report from Pago Pago in early January said Mrs. Johnson was to ly back to the US with Rocky for a nedical examination.

• SCHEDAR, 26 ft sloop, sailed solo by Frank Capers, 28, a former United States Navy navigator, reached Sydney on November 22 after an 11-month trip of 7,000 miles from Japan.

Frank told RIM on arrival that he had called at Saipan, Truk, the eastern Carolines, Rabaul and Port Moresby en route.

“The trip was without major mishap, although I lost a terrible lot of gear,” he said. “Everything except the mast disappeared at one time or another.

“I didn’t see another yacht until I reached Rabaul. No one seems to sail to the United States Trust Territory.”

Frank has no definite plans for the future but hopes to stay in Australia for somt time. • CLIPPER I, 25 ft trimaran, reached Singapore on January 10 after making several stops in Indo nesian waters. Skipper Tom Corkill left Brisbane early last year and cruised the Barrier Reef, and then sailed north to Thursday Island, Darwin, Timor and Indonesia.

Next he intends to visit Java, Christmas Island, the Cocos, Mauri tius, Madagascar and Durban. • LALLABY, 52 ft Tasmanian ketch, was at Lord Howe Island in early January after a trip to Mid dleton Reef.

The Lallaby saw a trawler Maraenui from Palm Beach, Sydney, anchored at Middleton Reef. Her crew also reported that the wrecked Runic was showing considerable signs of decay.

Runic, a 13,387-ton Shaw Savill freighter, ran aground on the reef, 120 miles north of Lord Howe, on February 19, 1961, and was declared a total loss.

Ever since she has been a valuable source of scrap metal to anyone caring to go there. • HIGHLIGHT, 35 ft New Zea land trimaran, was still at Lord Howe Island in early January.