Cruising Yachfs

• La Belle Sole, 64

American luxury ketch, left Vanim New Guinea, on September 4 f Ceram, Bali, Java, Singapore, Pena; and Ceylon.

Aboard were Mr. Roger Fransc a Los Angeles engineer, his wi: Anne, their children, Keith, 10, a; Karen, nine, and a crew of two Teppy Angermeyer, of the Galapag Islands, and an American studei Allan Hare.

La Belle Sole made many sto in New Guinea waters (see lett< P- 61). • WINDSONG IV, 48 ft ketc with Mike Law, Miles Chapius ai David Ward, left Papeete on Se tember 14 for a cruise of t Leeward Islands of the Society Groi and stops at Tonga and Noume She expects to reach Sydney abo November 10, In a note to PIM, the ketcl owner, Mr. Philip Weate, said t ketch finished a two-year charter j( in Antigua, West Indies, in Apr After a honeymoon cruise aroui the Caribbean with his wife Caroli and two crew, Windsong IV reach Panama.

Mr. Weate skippered the ketch Papeete via Nukuhiva, Ua Huka, I Pou and Rangiroa and then flc to Sydney for business reasons. I has been replaced as skipper 1 Mike Law.

“Our best passage was 4,000 mil Balboa-Nukuhiva in 29i days,” IV Weate said in his note. “Polynes offers better cruising and happi people than the West Indies.”

We last mentioned Windsong I in August, 1965, when she was ( Mexico. • DOVE, 24 ft fibreglass sloo with 18-year-old American L Graham, was reported stranded Mauritius in early September wi a broken mast.

Graham was awaiting a 30 aluminium mast, on its way by 2 from San Francisco via Sydney, i he could continue sailing to Durbj before the monsoon-cyclone seas< starts.

His mast snapped in the Indh Ocean, 100 miles from the Coo Islands, after he left Darwin fi Durban {PIM, June, p. 113).

Graham had to improvise a ju;

and convert a bed sheet for as a square sail. ith this sail power he travelled 3 miles in 21 days—the same 1 he could expect from normal ng. ; left Los Angeles in 1965 to around the world. So far he has j calls at Hawaii, Fanning Island, Samoas, Tonga, Fiji, New ides, the Solomons, New Guinea Darwin.

WHISPER, 32 ft American > left the Society Islands for itonga on September 1. The of the yacht, Hal and Margaret , left San Francisco in April are on their way to Japan.

PATHFINDER, 37 ft trimaran, Norman Davenport, his wife , and daughter Carole, 14, was save Lae for Madang in mid :mber. Pathfinder arrived in Lae ite August from the Trobriand ds. r. Davenport built Pathfinder : living in New Zealand. The ook four years. iur months ago the Davenports NZ to see the world in their ng home. ey hoped to use Pathfinder in larter tourist business in the Indies, C LARIN DA, a 26-year-old ; which two young Englishmen, i lies and Martin Mitchell, ht between them, arrived in ;i in August en route to New md. ey left England on April 6 last and have so far called at

Spain, Morocco, islands in the Caribbean, Panama and the Mar quesas.

In Panama, they recruited a third crew member, Peter Harrison.

On reaching New Zealand. lies wants to set himself up as a chicken farmer. • TOLU KATE A, 40 ft home made trimaran, with Mr. Wayne Batten, his wife, Rae, and three others, reached Auckland on Sep tember 14. She left Nukualofa, Tonga, in mid-August.

Mr. Batten had been Tonga’s popular Director of Education for the

past six years. He had buill Tolukatea in Tonga to sail home to New Zealand ( PIM , Sept., p. 111).

He had hoped to complete his last leg of the trip from Noumea to Auckland in just over a week but the trip went so well, despite a storm 400 miles out of NZ, that Auckland was reached in 6i days.

His engine was only used in the last half-hour of the cruise.

Mr. Batten has returned to NZ to become headmaster of Manurewa Primary School. • BLUE WATER, 42 ft Hong Kong-built ketch out of Juneau,

Lee Graham.

Alaska, was to leave Tahiti in S< tember for New Zealand, via i Leeward Islands, Cooks and Tong Richard and Sylvia Card, own of the ketch, said in a note to E that Blue Water left Juneau August last year and cruised Canada and California before rea* ing Hawaii. On May 17, they 1 Hilo, Hawaii, and took 25 days reach the Marquesas Islands. T 1 went on to Tahiti via the Tuamot Blue Water will stay in N Zealand for the coming hurrict season. • CALYPSO, 30 ft Queensla ketch, with Ron Mitchell, his w Florence, and their 17-year-old s Ronald, was to leave Tahiti in S tember for Hawaii, via the Tuamot After cruising Hawaii, the Mitch< plan to sail for Alaska to arrive Sitka in May next year.

Calypso, last reported at L( Howe Island ( PIM, Feb., p. 11: reached Tahiti several months i after a trip from New Zealand Raivavae in the Australs.

• Bachelor’S Wife, 25-

yacht, with owners Mr. and ]V Graeme Hume of England, arrr at Honiara in early September four months’ cruising in Solonu waters. The yacht has been on world cruise for the past 12 mont Last year she made a stop at L< Howe Island {PIM, Aug., 1966, 115). • JANUS LEE, Melbourne yac left Kirakira, Eastern Solomons, mid-September for Honiara. Sk pered by Mr. Kenneth Mortimer, England. Janus Lee reached Kirak on September 11 after a passage fn Melbourne. • ZARATHUSTRA, 20 ft slo with Mr. Walter Konig, of Hambu West Germany, reached Honiara mid-September after a short stop Funafuti, Ellice Islands, with eng: trouble. Last-reported, Zarathus left Apia, Western Samoa, for 1 Solomons and the New Hebrides.

Mr. Konig is on a world crui single-handed. He left Hamburg July, 1964, without any previous ss ing experience.

His sloop was declared i seaworthy in the Canal Zone {PL Aug., p. 110). • MIA MIA, Mr. Geoff Ha mond’s yacht, left Port Moresby 1 Thursday Island on September Mr. Hammond is sailing round Ai tralia with his wife and family. 1 sailed to Port Moresby from Cain