Cruising Yachts

• APOGEE, 30 ft yacht, with r. A. Eddy, of Newport, Virginia, to leave Sydney for the Great irrier Reef and New Guinea as on as Mr. Eddy can find a girl jwmember.

“Td like a girl aged about 20 10 is interested in sailing to ac mpany me back across the Pacific,” told RIM.

Mr. Eddy bought Apogee for J 513,500 on the Hudson River in id-1963. He gave up his job in a rail weapons research company and s been sailing the Caribbean and 2 Pacific ever since.

“I’ve been on my own most of 2 time, though I sailed with a girl rough most of Polynesia in 1964 d last year I had a mate for a ort spell in the New Hebrides.”

Last June in Fiji waters Apogee t Namena reef, south of Vanua vu, but was not badly damaged.

Mr. Eddy told us that the friend st people he had met on his p were at Aitutaki, Cook Islands.

“There are about 3,000 islanders i the island and a dozen whites,” went on.

“I was so overstocked with oranges d vegetables when I left I didn’t ink Apogee would move off the ach.” • KORSAR, 40 ft double-ended anolulu cutter, arrived at Pago igo on January 27 from Honolulu, i board were Mr. and Mrs. Keith ibler who said their last stop was )ra Bora.

Korsar will remain in Pago Pago itil the end of the hurricane season d then return to Honolulu, via ji- The cutter, a German war prize, is bought by Mr. Kibler in England, e sailed her to Honolulu and has iled extensively in her since. This Mrs. Kibler’s first trip. • FLYD, 30 ft ketch from Fal outh, England, hit the breakwater Okahu Bay, Auckland, on January and was pounded by waves before :ing towed to the Harbour Board pway.

It was the end of a 58-day trip 3m Rarotonga for its owner-skipper, r. Rusty Webb, of Birmingham, ngland. Mr. Webb has been sailing e world since he left Falmouth in ovember, 1965.

He was caught in heavy weather on the Rarotonga-Auckland trip and lost his maimast and mizzen.

He plans to refit Flyd in Auckland and then sail for Fiji, Tonga and other Pacific ports. • INNISFAIL, 45 ft Australian ketch, reached Russell, New Zealand, on January 27 after a nine-day trans- Tasman crossing from Sydney.

Skippered and built by an Aus tralian engineer, Peter Kenny, 43, and with a crew of four, Innisfail is heading for San Francisco, via Raro tonga and French Polynesia.

Seven days of the Sydney-Russell leg were spent under storm canvas and Innisfail was caught in a beam sea for six hours near the New Zea land coast. 9 YOUTH, 35 ft South Australian steel-hulled sloop, reached Niue on November 27 after a 600-mile trip from Palmerston Island, Cook Islands.

On board were skipper-owner Allan Quigley, of Adelaide, three other Australians. Jim Mohoupt, Ron Kirby and Ray Weldon, and two Americans, Chuck Clark and Bill Legler.

After a cruise in north Queensland waters, Youth arrived in Rarotonga from New Zealand last September (RIM, Oct.. 1966, p. 115). Her plans then were to visit Tahiti, Tonga and Fiji. • HIGHLIGHT, 35 ft New Zea land trimaran, reached Sydney on January 13 from Lord Howe Island.

Aboard were John and David Glennie of Blenheim, NZ, who have been cruising the Pacific since May, 1965.

They planned to return home from Sydney.

• La Belle Sole, 64 Ft

German-built motor ketch, with owner Mr. R. Franson, his wife, two children, and Teppy Angermeyer, an Ecuadorean from the Galapagos Islands, arrived in Sydney, on February 18.

La Belle Sole, which is registered in Los Angeles, has been cruising the South Pacific for the past 12 months.

The ketch arrived in Suva in October (RIM, Nov., p. 113).

The Fransons expect to stay in Sydney about a month before heading for New Guinea. • O KEAN OS, 39 ft staysail schooner in which Joe and Benita Pachernegg roamed the Pacific for four years or so has been sold in Sydney.

The buyer was an Australian, Roger Bartlett.

On January 31, Bartlett and a crew left Sydney, heading east. But in late February they were back in Sydney.

The Pacherneggs have not abandoned their plan to get a larger boat. But, meantime, Benita is work ing as a nurse in Sydney and Joe is operating the old Laurabada between Lae and Port Moresby for Steam ships Trading Company, Benita will join Joe in early March.

They think they might even build a boat in cement. • STRIDER Los Angeles yacht with Robert and Charlene Heacock, was still in Suva waiting out the hurricane season in February. • AIREYMOUSE, yacht, owned by Jean and Allan Batham, of the British Virgin Islands, will be in the Pacific at the end of the year. The Bathams plan to sail her to New Zealand and Australia.

She was formerly White Squall.

The Bathams bought her from Ross Norgrove, of Auckland. • KULANI, a yacht, was reported to have become a total loss on Manihi Atoll, Tuamotus, early in February.

Its crew were being looked after by the local people.

No other details were available when RIM went to press. • WANDERLURE 11, 73 ft motor yacht, left Vila on February 5 for Santo. Wanderlure is owned by Carl and Eleanor Heintz, who are making a voyage round the world with their two daughters, an American navi gator, a Tahitian crewman, and a Fijian crewman.

The yacht arrived in Suva in late December from St. Petersburg,

"Okeanos"

Florida, via the Caribbean, Panama San Francisco, Hawaii, Tahiti ind Samoa (PIM, Feb., p. 113). • NARVAL, 35 ft cutter, owned >y a retired American, Lt.-Col. >avid Erlenkotter, was in Gladstone, Queensland, in December after a rip from Fiji.

Narval left Honolulu in November, 965, for a cruise across the Pacific o Australia (PIM, Dec., 1965, p. 15).

Alan Eddy of Apogee told PIM in tydney in February that Mr. Erlen :otter had flown back to Hawaii to ecruit a crew to sail home. • HELL A, 45 ft Australian sloop, cached Papeete last November to iegin a cruise of the Polynesian slands.

On board were her Melbourne iwner, Mr. G. Jakubenko, his wife ilse, daughter Hella and a crewman, )on Mossman.

Hella left Melbourne early last 'ear for a trip to the Pacific Islands ind Vancouver (PIM, Mar., 1966, >. 112). • WASAKISH, a trimaran owned >y Glen Mac Lean, has been reported ost off Nukuhiva, Marquesas.

Tahiti’s bi-monthly Reef magazine aid in its latest (November-Decem >er) issue that Glen and a companion cached Nukuhiva after a trip from Mexico.

“The two spent the night of July 18 ashore before setting off for Fahiti,” the magazine said. “Wasakish vas left anchored in a little bay.

“They awoke the next morning to ind Wasakish had apparently dragged ier anchor into deeper water and legotiated the pass all alone during he night.”

In December, Wasakish still hadn’t >een heard of and Glen and his crewman were passing an enforced vacation on Nukuhiva. • MARINER, 31 ft sloop sailed 3y Noel Stroud, took refuge at Bundaberg, Queensland, on February 15 from a cyclone moving off the Queensland coast. Mariner was head ing for Sydney from New Caledonia.

Mr. Stroud skippered a Chinese unk, One Step, on a cruise of the Pacific Islands in 1965, filming under water documentaries (PIM, July, 1965, p. 109).

• Carronade, 32 Ft Aus

:ralian cutter, left Sausalito, Cali fornia, in January for a cruise of French Polynesia and the Cook [slands before attempting a passage around Cape Horn to Ushuaia in Argentine Patagonia.

On board were Andrew Wall, skipper, Des Kearns and Bob Nance, all Australians from Sydney.

Carronade left Sydney on March 21, 1965. • TZU HANG, 46 ft Sydney-built ketch, with Miles and Beryl Smeeton, left San Francisco in January for Greenland, via Panama.

The Smeetons have made many long voyages in the South Pacific over

the past 15 years. They sailed from Japan through the Aleutians to Vancouver, British Columbia, before reaching California to begin their Greenland trip. • AWAHNEE, 52 ft ferro-cement cutter, has reached Hawaii from Pago Pago with Dr. Robert Griffith, his wife Nancy, and 12-year-old son Reid.

The Griffiths completed their second circumnavigation in Novem ber when they reached Pago Pago (PIM, Jan., p. 121). It was the first round the world trip by a small ferro cement boat.

PIM reader Charles A. Borden, who has just brought out a book on small ship voyages called Sea Quest, tells us in a note from Sausalito, California, that sailors around the world are interested in Dr. Griffith’s reports on ferro-cement for small ocean cruising craft.

“This type of construction is very little known in the Pacific area out side Australia and New Zealand,” he says. “If it proves, as Bob Griffith claims, to be successful for small craft hulls, it may well become the answer to the poor man’s dreams of ocean cruising.”

The Griffiths, incidentally, were in California in January. 9 MERIDAN, 44 ft cutter, which we last reported in Rabaul in October, 1962, is now in Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, preparing for a trip to the Mediterranean.

Meridian’s owner. Richard Stafford, has been managing Mr. Henry Bode’s 800-acre copra plantation, Wunung.