Craising Yachts

• SPIRIT OF BARB ARY, a 26 ft ack-hulled cutter from San Diego, alifornia, arrived at Rarotonga on me 28. On board were a young arried couple, Mr. James P. Gotten id Mrs. Gotten.

They had visited Huahine, Raiatea, )ra Bora, and Nukahiva (Mar lesas) before arriving at Rarotonga, ley intend to visit New Zealand id hope to spend several months sre. • JACOB DAN, 22 ft sloop built New Zealand, arrived in Port oresby in late June from Noumea, i the New Hebrides, with Dutch rn Harry Holthauson, 41, and two enchmen from Noumea.

Holthauson hopes to make a west out voyage round the world. • KISMET, 34 ft ketch from tanbul, Turkey, arrived in Port oresby in early June after a 13y trip from Vila, New Hebrides.

With owner-skipper Sadun Boro, , of Turkey, and his wife, Oda, smet left Turkey in August, 1965, sail round the world.

She sailed through the Mediter nean and the Atlantic, and made )ps in the Pacific at the Galapagos ands, Marquesas, Tahiti, Vavau, ji and the New Hebrides. • NARHVAL, 35 ft gaff-rigged tter, owned and sailed by a retired nerican naval officer, Mr, David lenkotter, with a crew of three, iched Rabaul in early July from adstone, Queensland {PIM, March, 115).

The crew are Mike Bates, an nerican, and Peter Serine and Eric illiamson, both Australians, who ned Narhval at Gladstone.

Narhval was built in Denmark for )rk in the North Sea and her name Danish for a species of whale.

Mr. Erlenkotter bought her several ars ago and in November, 1965, t Honolulu to sail around the )rld.

Narhval’s next calls will be Port oresby, Thursday Island, Timor, iristmas Island, Cocos and Durban. • RAILI 11, 30 ft fibreglass tri iran, with her Finnish owners vo and Raili Nokelainen, was at >ss Creek, Townsville, in June.

About September, Raili II was to

head north for New Guinea. The Nokelainens left Sydney on August 17 last year and planned to spend 18 months cruising the islands of the Barrier Reef and New Guinea. • TRIDENT, 42 ft Sydney-built racing sloop, which arrived at Raro tonga on June 2 was still there on July 13.

Trident was to have sailed to Mururoa atoll in the Tuamotu Archi pelago in protest against the French nuclear bomb tests being carried out in that area (PIM, July, p. 111).

However, one of the six young Aus tralians and New Zealanders on board was admitted to Rarotonga Hospital in late June, and this was the reason given for the yacht’s de layed departure. • ZARATHUSTRA, 20 ft sloop, with Mr. Walter Konig, of Hamburg, West Germany, reached Apia from the eastern Pacific in late June, The sloop is a “home made” boat and looks like an old tin. She achieves a maximum speed of barely three knots.

Konig wants to circumnavigate the world singlehanded. He left Hamburg on July 28, 1964, having never sailed before.

After a troublesome Atlantic cross ing, he broke his mast. Then in the Canal Zone, he was delayed by American officials, who declared his craft was not seaworthy and tried to refuse him a passage through the Panama Canal.

In the Pacific he got sick and had to return to Costa Rica.

It took him four months to drift

in the notorious calms from Cost Rica to Acapulco, Mexico, but onl 72 days from Acapulco to Tahiti.

Konig is collecting meteorologies data at sea for the German an American Hydrographic Offices.

He had an appendicitis operatio at Apia Hospital on July 7, an planned to set sail on August 1 fc Port Moresby. From there he wl go on to Darwin, Ceylon, Aden an Suez.

He hopes to be home in anothe two years. ® ZULANE, 36 ft South Africa trimaran, which left Durban i December, has safely reached th West Indies and is planning to spen the hurricane season there.

Frik Potgieter, her skipper, wrot from Barbados that the crew ha “made a fortune” at Ascensio Island, bringing up copper, gunmets and silver from an old wreck in 3 ft of water in the port of the islanc They sold their haul in London fo £5tg.2,250.

Zulane plans to visit Paname Hawaii, Tahiti, New Zealand, Aus tralia, Japan, Thailand and Malay before returning to South Africa vi the Seychelles. • EILANDER, 34 ft ketch fron Sydney, which has visited Lord How* Island, New Caledonia and the Ne\ Hebrides before New Guinea, was ii Port Moresby in early July.

The ketch’s captain, Mr. Grahan Pike, through a friend, advertised ii a Sydney newspaper for four younj people to join the ketch on her work cruise.

After only one day he had receive* 16 applications to fill the foil vacancies. • KATHLEEN, 48 ft ketch fron Rabaul, will be entered in this year’: Sydney to Hobart yacht race.

The ketch is owned by Rabau businessman, Mr. Reg Stephenson She will be navigated in the race fy Captain W. Gibson, acting superinten dent of marine in Port Moresby.

Mr. Stephenson bought the Kathleen three years ago and fittec her for crocodile shooters in Bougain ville. 9 MERRYWING, 40 ft ketch arrived in Sydney from Suva on Jul} 10 with Mr. John Heilman, 39, oi Pennsylvania, USA, and his foui sons, Albert, 17, John, 14, Mark, 11 and Lee, nine.

With his wife, who later left the ketch at Papeete, Mr, Heilman, £ chiropractor, left New Jersey aboui two years ago and made stops in the West Indies and South America before going through the Panama

anal and on to the Galapagos lands, Tuamotus, Tahiti, the Cooks, merican Samoa, Fiji and Sydney.

He planned to leave Sydney in late ly to return to California and sell e Merrywing.

Mr. Heilman told PIM he had ade the whole trip to educate his ns. “It’s pretty expensive and I’m oke now but I think it was worth tale because my children have arnt how to accept and get along th people”, he said. • CAROPHYL, 48 ft cutter, rived in Sydney on July 18 from irotonga with Captain Michael ichelin, of England, and crew, ian Fobert, of Canada, David irker and Terence O’Connor, both England.

Michelin told PIM they had sailed irophyl from the West Indies to astralia to sell her for her West dian owner in Sydney.

Carophyl left Colon, Panama, on nuary 9 and sailed through the mama Canal to the Galapagos ands where a month was spent siting Chatham, Floreana and In fatigable Islands. From there she sited the Marquesas, Tahiti, Bora )ra, Moorea and Rarotonga.

Brian Fobert said Makatea, the w-exhausted phosphate island in 5 Tuamotus, looked “like a ghost tvn” when the yacht arrived there st April.

“Everything was deserted—houses, :tories and shops,” he said.

“Only 55 people are living on the and now, growing coconuts and

trying to eat the enormous quantities of fruit and vegetables that have got out of hand now there is no one around to eat them.” • TA’AROA, 47 ft American ketch, was severely buffeted over a distance of about 100 miles off the south coast of Queensland during heavy weather late in June and had to be towed to Mooloolaba for repairs.

Ta’aroa is skippered and owned by Mr. Jack Sederlund, of California.

Ta’aroa, which crossed the Pacific

last year ( PIM, May, p. 109) was heading for the Great Barrier Reef, • TATALAGU, 35 ft trimaran, with five Durban men, left home recently to make a round-the-world trip. They will sail to St. Helena, Ascension Island, Recife (Brazil), the West Indies and Panama, and cross the Pacific to New Zealand and Aus tralia. They have set themselves no time limit for the trip. • AREA, 40 ft New Zealand ketch, built and sailed by “Blue”

"Merrywing".

Wells with a crew of two, arrived in Tonga for the coronation after a series of difficulties.

Ahea left New Zealand planning to go to Rarotonga, but met head winds and discovered a broken propeller shaft. Wells put into Tongatapu for repairs, then headed for Vavau to visit a friend . . . who had just left for Nukualofa for a funeral.

So Ahea sailed back to Nukualofa for the coronation. Future plans are somewhat indefinite, but, as Wells has been unable to repair his engine, he will probably return to NZ before setting out again, • MAR QUESA, 40 ft Newporter ketch from California, with owner skipper Harold Whilldin, his wife Pat, and one crewman, Jamie Lopez, arrived at Nukualofa about midnight on July 3, the last yacht to arrive for the coronation.

The Whilldins bought the yacht in California in 1963 and sailed to Hawaii in August of that year. They stayed in Hawaii for two years before setting out for the South Pacific.

Their route took them through the Marquesas, the Tuamotus, the Society Islands and the Cook Islands to Raro tonga. For this portion of the voyage/ their crewman was Jim Anderson] whose photos are occasionally seen in PIM. He is now in Sydney.

Since leaving Rarotonga, Mar Quesa has cruised to New Zealand and Fiji. She claims the distinction of being the first yacht to visit Naitauba (Perry Mason’s island) since a passage was blasted through the reef. From there she went to Western Samoa, American Samoa, and Vavau before hurrying to Nukua lofa for the coronation.

The yacht was to leave Tonga late in July, to arrive in Hawaii near the end of the year. The route will include stops at Suwarrow and Penrhyn Islands, In Hawaii, the Whilldins plan to sell Mar Quesa and perhaps return to the islands to settle and begin a small business. • Astrocyte. Dr. and Mrs.

Charles Gould’s 50 ft sloop from Vancouver, arrived in Nukualofa on July 2 from Apia, Western Samoa.

The Goulds had visited Nukualofa previously in December, 1965, then sailed to Suva for a stay of more than four months. That was followed by a leisurely cruise through the Fiji Islands, touching Levuka, Makogai, Koro, Taveuni, Naitauba, Avea, and Loma Loma. The passage from Loma Loma to Apia was a rough one, as Dr. Gould’s three cracked ribs will testify.

After a trip to Vavau, Astrocyte’s itinerary includes Suva, the New Hebrides, and New Caledonia, then Australia for Christmas. 9 ARIADNE, 70 ft New Zealand owned motor-sailer, arrived at Nukualofa for the coronation with an international crew of four.

Skipper Tom Newland is a New Zealander; “Hutch” Hutchison is Australian; Peter Krokel is German, and Jim McCormick is American.

The vessel was in New Caledonia for the South Pacific Games, then went to Auckland before going to Tonga.

Future plans include trips to the Ha’apai and Vavau groups. • TREKKA CAPRICE, sailed by Garth and Wendy Rogers, was the smallest yacht to put into Nukualofa for the coronation festivities. A 20 ft craft, she left Whangarei, NZ, and made a 12-day passage to Sunday Island (Kermadecs) for a five-day stay. The Rogers reported an over whelming welcome. Two weeks’ more sailing saw them in Tonga.

The yacht was more experienced than the Rogers when they purchased her. She was built to the design of John Guzzwell’s Trekka by Geoffrey Dekkor, who sailed her single-handed from Australia to New Zealand.

She changed owners several times before the Rogers bought her about a year ago. They spent three months working on the yacht in the yard, then three months learning to “get in and out of harbour” before start ing up the coast of NZ for Tonga.

The Rogers plan to remain in Tonga for as long as their visas permit. He is a geologist.

• Fiddlers Green, In

Nukualofa in July, was formerly Volante, a 35 ft racing trimaran, fairly well known in New Zealand.

Bought by an American, Dick Maddock, and converted to cruising, she now carries an international crew.

Her skipper, Murray McGregor, is an Englishman; Barry (“Hori”) Hora is Australian, and Elizabeth Ann Saxon is from NZ.

Fiddlers Green went directly from Russell to Tonga in a run of 10 days. She left Nukualofa on July 5 for Pago Pago, American Samoa, where the owner hoped to change the registration of the yacht.

After American Samoa, the plan is to reach Hawaii by the end of the year, where the boat may be put up for sale. • REBEL, 35 ft trimaran is on her way again after a seven-month stay in American Samoa, with

Marvin and Ann Glenn. The Glenn were a month in the Manu’a Island of American Samoa, and anothe month in Vavau before arriving ii Nukualofa for the coronation.

From Tonga, Rebel will cruise tb Fiji area and perhaps New Caledoni; before heading for Australia. • KATHENA, 24 ft yacht, wit German singlehander Wilfred Erl mann, has been in Tahiti recently. • JESSIE W, 35 ft trimaran, lei Sydney on July 22 for Fiji with a 80-year-old Australian clergyman, th Rev. Frederick Watts, who told th Sydney Press he hoped to use Jessi W as “a floating pulpit in the Poh nesian Islands”.

Also on board was Frank Hale and Bob Brown. • BELIGOU, a 35 ft cutter fror Ouistreham, France, arrived at Rare tonga on July 11 after encounterin bad weather two days previously.

The three Frenchmen on boar! were the brothers Guy and Claud Quiesse, and their friend Jean Claud Bazoin.

Rarotonga was not on thei itinerary but they decided to ca] in for fresh food supplies and a day’ rest.

The three men, assisted by a car penter, built the Beligou themselve before leaving France a year ago t voyage round the world.

In the Pacific, they visited th Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas Tuamotus and Tahiti. They ha< arrived at Rarotonga from Bor; Bora.

The cutter left Rarotonga bourn for Tonga, Fiji, Noumea, Ne\> Guinea and South Africa on th< voyage home to France which i expected to take one year.

9 Dawn Breaker, 40 F

American trimaran from Floridi (PIM, May, p. 115), called at Raro tonga in mid-June. The skipper i; Russell Garcia, a composer and con ductor from Universal Film Studios Hollywood. Also on board was hi; wife whose professional name is Gins Valentina. Mrs. Garcia is a nigh club entertainer. Others were Mr and Mrs. Ronald Schneider and thei] son Steve. Mrs. Schneider joiner the yacht at Tahiti.

Dawn Breaker had called at the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and the Tuamotus before her arriva at Rarotonga. The yacht is scheduled to call at the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand and Australia before proceeding eastwards around the world.