[?]uising Yachts

REBEL, 35 ft trimaran from Francisco, with Mr. and Mrs. /in Glenn, was to leave Pago i in early May for Tonga (for :oronation of King Taufa’ahau) New Caledonia, NZ and Aus le Glenns saved for nearly four i to build Rebel and sail around world. They left San Francisco last year and have since visited Marquesas, the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Bora, Palmerston Island and tonga. icy arrived in Pago Pago last ber, and worked there while ng out the hurricane season.

DOVE, 24 ft fibreglass sloop, 18-year-old solo American youth Graham, reached Darwin on 5 from Port Moresby, aham left Los Angeles in July, , to try to be the youngest m to sail round the world single ed. So far. he has made calls Hawaii, Fanning Island, both )as, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides, iolomons and New Guinea. : was to stay in Darwin a few s before leaving for Durban.

CYTHERA , 50 ft Australian i, which made headlines when was stolen from Lord Howe d in 1963, was to leave Port :sby at the end of May and sail Durban, via Torres Strait and itmas Island. thera left her home port of ey a year ago on a voyage across Pacific to Panama and Europe, leaded north when the weather d “dirty” near Lord Howe, e ketch is owned by Mr. and Peter Fenton, who are travelling their 13-year-old daughter y- CAROPHYL, an American with Mr. J. B. Minchin, left ihiva, Marquesas Islands, in late for Tahiti and Sydney.

NIRVANA, 50 ft ketch from )lulu, with a Hungarian, George myi, his French wife Iliane, and American, Ross Miller, reached on May 10 for a stay of two hs. e Balkanyis have called at i. Samoa and Tonga and intend ng calls at NZ, Australia, and nea before heading for the

Mediterranean where they hope to charter Nirvana in the waters off Spain, Greece and Italy.

The couple migrated to the US from France 10 years ago with their two daughters. They now live in Honolulu. • NAM SANG, 66 ft American yacht, was reported to have left Russell, NZ, in late April for Raro tonga and Los Angeles.

The yacht left Sydney in early April for NZ with the owner. Mr.

J. Thompson, and a crew of about seven.

Sydney waterfront gossip is that Mr. Thompson tried to sell Nam

Sang in Sydney, but that Australia’s 60 per cent, import tax made the price prohibitive. • STORNAWAY, 33 ft black hulled New York yacht, left Sydney on May 16 for Japan, via the Barrier Reef and New Guinea.

Aboard were Alf Peterson and his wife Marjorie who reached Sydney in early March from Noumea.

Fifteen years ago Alf made a single-handed circumnavigation in Stornaway. • TA’AROA, 50 ft luxury American yacht, is to leave Sydney in early June for Townsville, Cairns,

iktown. Port Moresby, Thursday nd, Darwin, Indonesia, Ceylon Ethiopia. a’aroa arrived in Sydney from kland in April with skipper er, Mr. H. Sederlund, 35, Chris by, Allan Messamer, Barbara mer. and Nancy Spencer, all from /port Beach, California {PIM, P- 109). 11 but Messamer will leave ley in the yacht. He will stay to “earn extra funds”, and will in the yacht in Darwin.

ARIADNE, 69 ft ketch with a hp auxiliary motor, arrived in on April 30 and was due to 2 again on May 2 for New and. mong the seven people on board reaching Vila was Dr. A. R. ison, who was to take up a post le Paton Memorial Hospital. riadne, which hails from London, uppered by Tom Newland. She >ed the Pacific last year. Ports call included Rarotonga and ualofa {PIM, Jan., p. 119).

WAITERE, 30 ft yacht, with nie Muir, 25, of Los Angeles, Bruce Roberts, 23, of Auckland, Sydney on May 18 for the Great ier Reef, Port Moresby. Thurs- Island, Darwin, Timor, Bali,

stmas Island. Cocos-Keeling, the

helles and Durban, uir told PIM he bought the t in NZ in 1966 for $7,500 and ght her to Australia for the last ey-Hobart race, in which she ;d 11th place in her division, or our South Africa trip I’m I a Lee Graham,” he said. “We a tiny kitten called Randy on 3 which we hope will bring us TAMATEA, 48 ft racing sloop, by Mr. Heath Hemphill, of Suva,

to Mr. Ross Cochrane, of Auckland (PIM, April, p. 113), ran into trouble on her delivery voyage and had to limp 500 miles back to Suva.

She arrived at Suva on May 16.

Mr. Cochrane reported that Tama tea ran into bad weather about four days out from Suva, losing her boom and storm sails. There was a heavy southerly gale with 35 to 40 knot winds, and high seas.

After losing the boom and storm sails the crew used the storm trisail as a sea anchor, and lost that too.

The Tamatea rode in front of the storm most of the way back to Fiji, making good time.

Mr. Cochrane will stay in Suva till the Tamatea is repaired, but most of the other six men in the crew will return to New Zealand. • APOGEE, Alan Eddy’s tiny 30 ft yacht from Newport, Virginia, USA, left Sydney in early May for New Guinea via Brisbane and Gladstone. Alan was single-handing the yacht when he left, but he was reported to be picking up a Sydney girl in Gladstone to accompany him to Port Moresby. (In Sydney, he appealed through the Press for a female sailing companion).

Apogee left the US in mid-1963 to sail the Caribbean and Pacific.

•La Belle Sole, 64 Ft

American luxury ketch, left Sydney on May 25 for the Barrier Reef,

Darwin, Indonesia, Singapore, Ceylon, Ethiopia, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

Aboard were Mr. Roger Franson, a Los Angeles engineer, his wife, Anne, their two young children and a crew of two. La Belle Sole reached Sydney on February 18 after a 12month trip across the Pacific from Los Angeles. • SCHEDAR , the 26 ft sloop which American Frank Capers sailed single-handed on a 7,000-mile trip from Japan to Sydney last year, was shipped on board the Farrell Lines freighter Australian Surf from Sydney to New York in May, Frank told PIM he would fly back to the US. He hoped to sail Schedar on the eastern coast and to the West Indies, or even sell the sloop and buy a new one.

A 28-year-old former US Navy navigator, Frank said he thought it was about time he settled down and got a steady job back home. • CHIMERE, a French yacht, called at Pitcairn Island in March en route from Panama to Tahiti.

Chimere is skippered by Jean Bluche and has one crewman, Andrew Reynolds, a 19-year-old Englishman. • ALOHA, 36 ft yacht in which NZ yachtsman lan Rabbitts sailed to Lord Howe Island, the Barrier Reef and Thursday Island a couple of years ago, has been sold to Brisbane yachts man Des Hills.

Mr. Rabbits has now settled in Sydney with his wife, Fran, and their two-year-old son Kelvin to manage the Cammeray Marina where he ex pects to talk yachts with many a cruising yachtsman.

"La Belle Sole".