Craising Yachts

• BACCHUS, 40 ft ketch, arrived Nukualofa on November 9 from rotonga and Papeete with owner pper A 1 Ligget, his wife Beth, and w member Derek Stuart, formerly Constellation, who joined the sel in Rarotonga.

Fhe yacht, registered at San Diego, : the American port of Annapolis November, 1966, and cruised vn the inland waterway to Palm ach, Florida. The next ports of 1 were the Bahamas and Jamaica.

From Panama, the Liggets sailed the Galapagos Islands and then on the Marquesas which they reached 30 days.

Between the Marquesas and Tahiti ir sails blew out. This resulted a long stay in Moorea and Papeete ile they waited for new sails to ive.

Bacchus has an 11 ft 6 in. beam, 7 ft draft, and is powered by a ) hp Ford petrol engine. • TAM ATE A, 48 ft sloop, ived in Auckland on October 31, days after leaving Suva, on her ivery voyage. Tamatea, a familiar ht in Suva Harbour for many irs, was sold by Mr. Heath mphill, secretary of the Defence ib, Suva, to Mr. Ross Cochrane, lecturer at Auckland University, 0 sailed her to Auckland.

Phe trip south from Suva was ;ventful. The Tamatea left Suva May on a delivery trip, but had turn back with her boom broken er she encountered heavy seas. • MITOUZI, 25 ft ketch, carry -1 naval architect Tichard Bettens d his wife, Tania, arrived in Suva e in October, and planned to leave • Noumea a few days later.

Mr. and Mrs. Bettens, of Lausanne, dtzerland, left Port Vendres, near arseilles, in January, 1966, to sail and the world. Before reaching va they had made more than 60 rts of call.

From Noumea they will sail to dney, where they will rest for about : months, before continuing east r “home”.

• Roselle La Douce, 37 Ft

tter, arrived in Suva in November, d will stay there till the end of i hurricane season.

On board are retired sea captain

John Elsdon, of Northumberland, UK. and his wife, who left England in September, 1966.

They sailed in easy stages across the Atlantic, and through the Panama Canal, spending four months in the West Indies on the way. • WHISPER, 32 ft American sloop, left Apia, Western Samoa, on November 7 for Funafuti, Ellice Islands, with Hal and Margaret Roth.

Whisper left California in April and has so far visited 28 ports and sailed 6,219 miles. The sloop is heading for Japan.

Mr. Roth said in a note to PIM

in November that the worst place the Whisper had visited was Pago Pago which “is incredibly dirty, smelly, expensive and filled with people out to make a fast dollar”.

“Port charges of $25 are excessive and absurd,” he said, “It’s a shame really, for Pago Pago is such a beautiful harbour and like Papeete could be a centre for yachts to visit.

“I will never return to American Samoa and I urge other travellers not to stop there.”

He said Rangiroa, Tuamotus, and Apia, were his favourite places, • REBEL, 35 ft trimaran, arrived

Brisbane in early November from imea, New Caledonia, with ■vin and Ann Glenn. After a ■t stay in Brisbane, the Glenns nd to sail south to Sydney, arriv about December 18. Ann Glenn applied for a special course at University of Sydney and the ms hope to travel in Australia >re university classes start in ch, 1968. i PRINCESS, 36 ft ketch from fornia, with skipper-owner Bill les and his wife, Mary, was to e Brisbane in late November for ley. i 1966 Princess spent time in the quesas, the Tuamotus, Society ids and the Cook Islands {PIM, , 1966, p. 115).

ROSINA, yacht which was aged when she went aground h of Cascade Pier, Norfolk id, in May {PIM, June, p. 116), Norfolk Island for Auckland on ember 9 with a new owner, tain Peter Luxmore, and a crew ive. osina underwent extensive repairs tier hull, carried out on blocks Mew Cascade Road. efore leaving, Captain Luxmore that but for the co-operation of NI Administration and the ;rosity of NI residents it would i been impossible to get the yacht : in the water again in such a t time. He hoped to enter Rosina this year’s Sydney-Hobart yacht , Australia’s blue-water classic. • SUNDOWNER, 24 ft ketch ght with the proceeds of crocodile ting in New Guinea by Tom rison, reached Port Stanley, dand Islands, off South America, November 12.

Sailing alone, Harrison left Montevideo, Uruguay, in mid- October to round Cape Horn into the South Pacific. Seven days out he broke a rib and was blown off course in heavy winds and snow squalls before reaching the Falk lands.

Harrison left Australia five years ago in Sundowner and called at Madagascar, Reunion Island and South African ports before reaching South America. He left Durban in earlv 1966 ( PIM, Mar., 1966, p. 112).

• Constellation, 102 Ft

(overall length) schooner, arrived in Pao Pao Bay, Moorea, from Bora Bora and Raiatea in mid-November.

She had earlier been in Rarotonga.

On board were captain-owner Mr.

S. E, Wallace; his wife; Verne Hansen, first mate; Roger Gray, first engineer; Jerry Been, second en gineer; and Warren Yee, radio opera tor.

Constellation left San Francisco, where she is registered, on December 3, 1966. She spent three months

The Glenns.

ising down the west coast of lerica before reaching Acapulco, xico. were later made at the lapagos Islands and Easter Island, hler next port of call was Pitcairn, fhe schooner is a former ocean er and won the Trans-Pacific yacht e from California to Honolulu in >5 and 1959. She came second in (7. \fter her visit to Moorea, Captain illace intended to visit Tahiti and Marquesas before going on to nolulu.

Constellation has a deck length of ft 10 in., a beam of 18 ft 10 and a draught of 10 ft 6 in. : is powered by a GMC diesel ich gives her a cruising speed of knots and a top speed of 11 knots.

I is used most of the time. » HIHIFO, 42 ft cutter, arrived Nukualofa on November 12. This 5 her last port of call before re tting to Melbourne after over two rs at sea. iihijo left Melbourne in Sep iber, 1965, with skipper-owner n Field. New Zealand crewman

Peter Inglis joined her in Auckland, and Bruce McKenzie signed on in Aruba, Dutch Antilles.

Hihifo’s cruise took in Chile, Peru, the Caribbean and Colombia.

Stan Field visited Tonga three years ago in the yacht Kilki, and when he bought his present cutter. then called Westwards, he translated the name into Tongan so that she became Hihifo. • DOVE, Lee Graham’s 24 ft fibreglass sloop, which was in Mauritius in early September awaiting a replacement for a broken mast {PIM, Oct., p. 114), reached Durban, South Africa, on October 25.

Graham was 16 years old when he

left San Pedro, California, in July, 1965, in an attempt to become the youngest yachtsman to sail single handed round the world. He crossed the Pacific in 1965-66.

From Durban, he plans to continue his voyage in the New Year via the Cape of Good Hope and the Panama Canal. „ . , • Ed Boden s yacht, which we last reported in Papeete in April {PIM, May, p. Ill), has now reached Auckland. She spent agreeable stopovers in Papetoai Bay, Moorea; Aitutaki (six weeks); Rarotonga; and Tonga. • NEOPHYTE TOO, 48 ft cutter,

i American yachtsman Lee Quinn his inevitable all-girl crew, was orted in Bora Bora in mid member. till going strong as a crew mem was Melbourne secretary Patricia dsman, who has survived some six en other girls who have sailed i Quinn over the last few years.

Juinn, Miss Seedsman and Neo te Too completed a 38,000-mile age round the world in July when reached San Francisco. The 'inal Neophyte was cut in two by eighter off Sydney Heads in June, 5 ( PIM , July, 1965, p. 107). luinn was reported to be heading the Cook Islands from Bora Bora. > HELLY, 38 ft American sloop, i Ken Grant, Winslow Brabson Ben Kajer, left Papeete for Bora a at the beginning of November, i plans to go on to the Cook nds, Tonga and Auckland by istmas.

Jrant, Brabson and Kajer, are ner US Air Force men who ght their sloop in Panama where f were stationed. liey left Panama for Papeete via Galapagos and Marquesas in ►ust. ► SNORIS, 37 ft Swiss ketch, ch we last reported in Panama M, May, p. 115), has been in eete since early August and will Dably remain there until about / next year. ailed by Robert and Claire noz, Snoris is on a voyage round world. ► KYRENIA, 26 ft sloop, with «tair and Beth Robertson, is cur ly among a number of yachts up in Papeete until after the ■icane season. dastair, a Scotsman, and Beth, a v Zealander, bought their yacht in and and left Glasgow to sail for v Zealand in September, 1965. iter reaching the West Indies, r called a halt for a year to imulate capital for the next part heir trip. Alastair’s jobs included ng a catamaran for a hotel, build fibreglass boats, and working for ilm company as a stand-in for hony Newly.

'yrenia reached Tahiti early in r after passing through the Panama lal and making stops in the Gala os, Marquesas and Tuamotus inihi). Kyrena will probably press to New Zealand in about six iths. > JELLICLE, 25 ft sloop, with ular lone-handed yachtsman Mike

Bayles, left Papeete for Russell, New Zealand, on November 15 after a stay of some two years in Tahitian waters.

Bayles, a sandy-haired, weather beaten Englishman, left England for the Pacific in June, 1962, and was scheduled to spend Christmas with relatives in New Zealand in 1965.

However, after reaching Tahiti, which he first visited in 1957, he continually found overpowering reasons for not going any further.

For 18 months before his departure from Papeete, Bayles had worked as commentator aboard Jean Guyonnet’s 35 ft glass-bottomed boat Manurere which takes tourists out to view the coral reef beyond Papeete.

Bayles planned to sail non-stop to Russell and subsequently to go on to Australia. • NEXUS, 30 ft fibreglass sloop with Californian yachtsman Chuck Harris, is expected to be a permanent fixture in Papeete’s yacht haven until after the hurricane season, Harris, with two friends, Dick Burns and John Wyness, left Long Beach, California, on August 13 and made landfall at Ua-huka, Marquesas, on September 18.

After coming on to Tahiti, Wyness was involved in a motor scooter accident, and in mid-November he was in hospital in Honolulu. Burns

urrently hitch-hiking round New and. arris, who is a woodwork and ilwork teacher in Newport Beach, fomia, has taken over Mike es’ job as commentator on the i-bottom boat Manurere.

ESCAPEE, 41 ft cutter, arrived Nukualofa on November 9 en ; to New Zealand, wner-skipper Raith Sykes and wife Vivienne left Victoria, sh Columbia, in September, , and sailed to Mexico, the quesas. Societies, Rarotonga :re they stayed two weeks) and >a. There is one crew member, de Saint Siene. le yacht, which is registered in :ouver, is powered with a 60 ‘erkins diesel engine, r. and Mrs. Sykes are Canadians, r sailing companion is a French man. ucchus (see p. Ill) raced Escapee Rarotonga to Tonga and beat iy a few hours. They were close he way, though not in sight of other.

Fiddlers Green, 35 Ft

iran, with Englishman Murray regor and Australian Barry i, left Lord Howe Island in late ber for Auckland and delivery > owner, an American, Mr. Dick dock.

Lord Howe crewman, Mr. :n Holmes, stayed on when f er’s Green left. He planned to on the island for an indefinite d. idler’s Green reached Lord e Island from Brisbane (PIM, , p. 107).

MIA MIA, Mr. Geoff mond’s yacht, passed Thursday d recently on a trip around ralia. With his wife and family, Hammond left Port Moresby on :mber 2 (PIM, Oct., p. 117).

KATHLEEN, 45 ft Rabaul i, owned by local businessman Reg Stephenson, was to leave ul in early November for ey to compete in the Sydney irt yacht race. In Sydney leen will be slipped for measure s and a new propeller. ;r all-territory crew includes Port ;sby harbour master Bill Gibson, ;ator, Max Jennings, Terry :e, Peter Hood and Brian arn. Mr. Stephenson will be •er.

STRIDER, American sloop, ed in Brisbane about the begin

ning of November from Noumea with skipper-owner Robert Heacock and his wife Charlene.

The Heacocks were “very impressed” with Brisbane, and thought it “strange but nice” to be in a big city in a big continent again after two years in the Islands.

“We plan to leave our boat in Brisbane for a few months while we have a rest from the sea and the boat and travel through Australia by land,” the couple told us in a note from the Queensland capital.

During their two years in the Islands, the Heacock’s ports of call have included Tahiti, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji ( PIM, Nov., p. 113). • BERNINA, 50 ft steel-hulled ketch, built in Switzerland, returned to Papeete on November 2 after a month’s cruise to Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora and Moorea.

Bernina is sailed by Greg Lashelle, and his wife Louise, of California, who plan to stay in Papeete until after the hurricane season, and then go on to Samoa, Tonga, and Fiji before heading northwards for Hono lulu.

Bernina left Newport Beach on July 13, and reached the Marquesas in 24 days. After having a look at Nukahiva, Ua Pu, Tahuata and Hiva oa, the Lashelles pushed on to Tahiti which they reached on September 1. • CALYPSO, 30 ft Tahiti ketch, which left Brisbane in December, 1966, for an extensive Pacific cruise, reached Papeete recently via Whan garei (NZ) and Raivavae in French Polynesia’s Austral Islands.

Calypso is sailed and owned by Ron Mitchell, a pineapple grower from Woombye, Queensland. Mr.

Mitchell is accompanied by his wife Florence and their 17-year-old son Ronald.

The Mitchells will be joined by their 21-year-old daughter Wendy, a schoolteacher, in December.

Calypso will remain in Papeete until mid-January, when she will sail for Honolulu and Sitka, Alaska.

From Sitka (a calling place sug gested by Dick and Sylvia Garde, of Bluewater) , the Mitchells will work their way down America’s west coast. • DRIVER, 62 ft (overall) yacht from Vancouver, arrived in Papeete on November 12 via Honolulu, Christmas and Fanning Islands.

Driver, a beautifully equipped yacht, is owned and skippered by a Vancouver businessman, Phil Gaham.

Also on board are his wife Joan; his four sons, Phil, 16; Chris, 15; Bruce, 11; and Laurence, seven;

Barry Ross, who is acting as cook; and John Heacock (elder brother of Robert Heacock, of Strider ) who is acting as tutor to the four Gaham boys.

Driver was built to the owner’s specifications and was launched on May 24, Her crew gained useful experience in the trans-Pacific yacht race begin ning in San Pedro on July 4.

After spending six weeks in the Hawaiian islands, Driver sailed for Christmas Island and Fanning Island, where the Gahams greatly enjoyed the hospitality of the Burns Philp manager, Mr. Phil Palmer.

Driver will probably cruise the Society Islands during the next few months before pushing on across the Pacific to Australia and other points west around the world. • FIU, a small yacht from Toulon, France, was in Papeete in November. • ZWERVER 11, a Dutch yacht with Jaap and Marie Alenson and their 11-year-old daughter Amanda, which has been in Papeete since early September, will remain in the Tahitian capital for several more months be fore pushing on through the Islands to New Zealand and Australia.

The Alensons, whose home is in Durban, began their voyage in January, 1966, by sailing via the rivers and canals of Holland, Belgium and France to the Riviera.

After cruising the Mediterranean for four or five months, they headed for Barbados and then cruised the West Indies—John Matthews, a New Zealander, having joined the yacht as crew in Gibraltar.

Zwerver II passed through the Panama Canal in May this year; visited the Galapagos and Marquesas (where the Alensons found everything wonderful except the anchorages); and pushed on to Tahiti via Manihi in the Tuamotus (where the Islanders proved to be “the nicest people you could care to meet”). • SCHNOVFI, 28 ft French ketch, with Jean Pierre Jourdain, his wife Janine, and children Philippe, nine, and Catherine, 17, was in Papeete in November.

Schnoufi sailed from Alicante, Spain, for the West Indies on July 15, 1966. She visited Gibraltar, Tangier, the Canaries, Martinique, Santa Lucia, Panama, the Galapagos and the Marquesas before reaching Tahiti on September 10 this year.

The Jourdains are undecided whether to continue their voyage round the world or head for the United States.