Cruising Yachts

• AHEA, 40 ft ketch, skippere by Charles Wells and crewed b Max Thomas, John Molloy and Phj Dyer, left Nukualofa on June 6 fc Vavau.

The ketch left Auckland, NZ, fo Aitutaki in the Cooks on April 2' but when heavy seas broke her prc peller shaft, she changed course fo Tonga because it was considered to difficult to negotiate the Aitutak reef without auxiliary power. Ahe reached Nukualofa 27 days out c NZ after local fishermen guided th ketch into harbour. After Vavat Ahea was to return to NZ. • KORSAR, 38 ft sloop, wit Keith Kibler, Felicia Frey and Gay] Chambers, has been in Suva recentb relaxing for a month before sailin for Noumea and Australia.

Korsar, last reported from Pag Pago ( PIM, Mar., p. 113), arrive in Suva from the Samoas on May i: Miss Frey has been Kibler’s sailin companion for the past year. Mi: Chambers joined the sloop in Suvj In a note to PIM, the crew sai Korsar was originally bought i England from the British Navy. Sh left England in 1960, sailing som 40,000 miles to the Caribbean, th west coast of Central America, Cal fornia, Hawaii, the Marquesa Tuamotus, Societies and both Samoa “The last 10,000 miles has foun Kibler with female crews and it reported he is not suffering becaus of it,” the note added. • CAROPHYL, a 48 ft Bermuda: cutter from the West Indies, arrive' at Rarotonga on June 1, She left Nukuhiva, Marquesa Islands, in late April {PIM, June, p 113) and called at Papeete befor making a week-long trip to Rare tonga.

On board were Michael Minchit master, and three crew—Bria; Forbert, from Canada, and Terr O’Connor and David Park, both fror the UK.

CarophyVs destination is Sydney. • MAR-QUESA, 40 ft Newporte ketch, arrived in Apia from Fiji i late May with owner-skipper Harol Wilden and his wife Mary. Th Wildens, who left Hawaii in Augus; 1965, have since visited th

irquesas, Tuamotus, Society ands, Rarotonga, New Zealand and i, where they spent seven months. \fter repairs to Mar-quesa in Apia, Wildens planned to visit Pago go, then Nukualofa for the corona n of King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV. ter that they will return to Hawaii. • PORPOISE, 38 ft Los Angeles ch, was the first cruising yacht to ive at Rarotonga in 1967 when i called in for water on May 15. fhe master is a lady, Mrs. Louise rers, from the US, There were two w—Christian Chernus, from the , and Paul Somers, from the therlands. °orpoise sailed from Sydney in ril (PIM, May, p. 109), and ited Whangaroa, New Zealand, j was proceeding to Tahiti when ihortage of drinking water caused master to put in at Rarotonga. • TRIDENT, a 42 ft Sydney-built op designed for racing, arrived at rotonga from Auckland on June On board were Peter Bryson, ster; Bryan Haas, a printer; Dusan 11s, a bookseller; and D’Arcy Ims, a Post Office technical assis t—all Australians; and two young w Zealanders, Grant Nunes and k Pugh, carpenters from langerei.

Trident planned to sail into the iruroa Atoll area in protest against French nuclear testing there, fhe yacht was behind schedule on ching Rarotonga due to gales :ountered during the voyage from w Zealand. These caused her

master to heave-to twice and blew out some sails and damaged running gear.

The Premier of the Cook Islands, Mr. Albert Henry, appealed to Bryson not to go to the Mururoa area and to return to Australia before a “more serious situation might arise”. But Bryson said he intended to sail for the test area in the middle of June. • INNISFAIL, 45 ft Australian ketch, called at Auckland in May en route to San Francisco, via Tahiti, Bora Bora, Nukahiva and Honolulu.

Skippered and built by an Aus tralian engineer, Peter Kenny, 43, Innisfail reached Russell, NZ, on

January 27 after a nine-day trans- Tasman crossing from Sydney {PIM, Mar., p. 113).

Mr. Kenny left Russell for Tahiti in February but had to return to Whangarei, NZ, when a crew member became ill. All his crew left the boat there and he sailed to Auckland and signed on a new crew.

In 1968, Mr. Kenny hopes to sail Innisfail to Acapulco for the Olympic Games and then sail through the Panama Canal to the West Indies, • NIRVANA, 50 ft ketch, left Suva on June 5 bound for Anzio, Italy. The crew, comprising a

"Mar-quesa"

ungarian, George Balkanyi; his ench wife Iliane; an American, dss Miller; and an English athlete, ichael Joyce, intended to make Dps at Noumea and Australia he re heading for the Mediterranean iere the Balkanyis hope to charter s ketch.

Mr. Joyce, the current holder of 2 Fiji allcomers’ records over 1,500 d 5,000 metres, joined the ketch Suva to return to his home in uthampton for Christmas. After iristmas he hopes to return to Suva continue coaching with the Fiji nateur Athletic Association.

Mr. Joyce lived in Papua-New linea until January last year. He iresented P-NG at the First South cific Games in Suva in 1963. • A HU RANGI, 45 ft New aland ketch, reached Sydney on ne 16 from Noumea, with a week’s ipover in Brisbane.

The ketch left Wellington, NZ, in >ril and took part in the Whangarei mmea ocean yacht race and then used to Vila, Santo and Malekula, :w Hebrides, before heading for the e of Pines and Brisbane.

Five New Zealanders, David Scott, ipper, Alec Relling, Alister :Alister, Eric Ackroyd and Bill lliams were aboard.

Mr. Williams told RIM: “We didn’t i the yacht race by a long shot, t we came away with the prize • the oldest crew”.

Ahurangi was to stay in Sydney for

about a week before heading back to Wellington in late June.

O DAUNTLESS, 28 ft trimaran from Seattle, has been in Tahiti re cently, She was built and is sailed by brothers Errol and Mike Christen.

Dauntless reached Tahiti in March after a 34-day crossing between Los Angeles and the Marquesas.

The Christens intended to have a long stay in Tahiti before heading for New Zealand. • KELASA, 36 ft cutter, has been on a trans-Pacific crossing from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sydney recently with Mr. Harry Gilbert.

The cutter reached French Poly nesia early this year and made a few stops in the Marquesas before reaching Papeete on February 28.

After a short stay in Tahiti, Kelasa was to “island-hop” southwards to Sydney.

• REHU MOAN A , 40 ft catamaran skippered by New Zealand yachtsman Dr. David Lewis, was due to arrive in Plymouth, England, in late May or early June.

Rehu Moana began a round-the world trip from England in 1964 and was in the Pacific in 1965-66, She was last reported near the Cape Verde Islands, after visiting Banana in the Congolese Republic.

Dr. Lewis is sailing with his wife Fiona, his daughters Susan, 5, and Vicky, 4, and a woman friend, Miss Priscilla Cairns.

The family completed its circum navigation when they crossed their outward track to South America near the Cape Verde Islands.

Besides making the first voyage round the world by catamaran, the Lewis children are the youngest people to have sailed round the world in a yacht.

A review of Dr. Lewis’ book

Islands athlete Michael Joyce, who is sailing to England in "Nirvana".

aughters of the Wind in which he Us of the voyage from England as r as New Zealand was published PIM last month.

A photograph published with the view, showing Dr. Lewis, Miss lirns and the two Lewis children, is inadvertently captioned “Dr. jwis and family”, PIM regrets the ror.

Later this year Dr. Lewis sail his tamaran back to the Pacific to take • a research fellowship with the istralian National University, Can rra. • VALHALLA, 61 ft ketch, rived in Port Moresby in June im Thusday Island on the first I of a round-the-world voyage with ipper-owner Ann Brittain, 23, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, and :rew of four—Karen Anderson, 20, my Fincham, 28, Bob Hobman, 26, d Charles Williams, 28, Miss Brittain collected her crew in dney early last year and made a »pover at Thursday Island to give a chance to leam the ropes. She ins to take from six to 10 years sail round the world. Valhalla will y in Port Moresby indefinitely until 5 crew has enough to finance the P- Miss Brittain left Sydney in March, 66, to start her ambitious voyage. • HELL A, 45 ft Australian op, reached Taiohae, Marquesas, late March. The sloop, with her dbourne owner, Mr. G. Jakubenko, wife Else, daughter Hella and a ;wman, Don Mossman, reached peete last November on a cruise the Pacific Islands and Vancouver >m Melbourne {PIM, Mar., p. 5). • DAWN BREAKER, an Ameri i trimaran belonging to Russel ircia, of Los Angeles, reached peete in late May via Panama, : Galapagos, Marquesas and mihi Atoll, Tuamotus. Others on ard were Jeanne Garcia, Ronald d Sternen Schneider, and Paul reea, of Manihi.

Dawnbreaker is to make a tour the Polynesian islands. • HAIDA SEA, a yacht out of ncouver, British Columbia, reached iohae, Marquesas, in late March. • JOHN HANNA, 30 ft ketch, s having a refit in Honolulu in ly June before returning to Cali ■nia after a voyage round the •rid.

Skipper C. K. Wing tells us in a te that the ketch completed her cumnavigation in four years, eight

months, 26 days, six hours and 10 minutes when she reach Ua-Huka, Marquesas, on March 12.

John Hanna then made several calls in the Marquesas, including Taiohae, before sailing for Hawaii and arriving at Hilo on May 9.

The ketch turned up in PlM’s yachting columns many times after she left San Pedro, California, on May 4, 1962, on her round-the-world trip. We last reported her leaving Lae for a cruise along the New Guinea coast in March, 1964 (p. 107).

• IDLER, 24 ft Tahitian ketch, left Brisbane on June 14 for Port Moresby with owner and solo yachts man Sherman E. Price, of Las Vegas, US. After Port Moresby, Mr. Price intends to sail back to America via the Indian Ocean. • KAISUN 11, 38 ft masthead sloop, with owner-skipper Wilf Peck, his wife Jess, their son Brian 12, and a cat called “Puddy”, is to leave Cowichan Bay, British Columbia, in August for San Francisco, Mexico and a cruise of the South Seas or the West Indies.