Cruising Yachts

• IDLER, 24 ft Tahiti ketch, with singlehander Mr. Sherman Price, arrived in Durban on December 21 for a month’s stay before continuing his round-the-world trip.

In 1962, Mr. Price relinquished a go-kart track and snack bar in the United States, bought Idler and started his trip. In the Pacific, he has visited Hawaii, Tahiti, the Cook Islands and Papua, When last reported in PIM, he was in Port Moresby {PIM, Nov., 1967, p. 107). • TABU, 32 ft catamaran with Austrian singlehander Wolfgang Hausner, was to leave Durban in mid- January for Europe via Recife and the West Indies. Hausner left Fremantle, Western Australia, last Tune in an attempt to be the first to sail a catamaran solo round the world.

He reached Durban after stops at Indonesia, Lombok, Bali, Mada gascar, Mozambique, and Lourenco Marques. His stay in Europe will last about a year before he continues his trip back to Australia via the Panama Canal and the Pacific. • MOTUORA , 30 ft New Zea land trimaran, with skipper, George

Embage, Alison Mackie, of Auck land, and Wendy Henriksen, of Brisbane, has been having a good look at the South Sea Islands in recent months. She was due in Honiara in late December from Rabaul.

Motuora began her cruise in Auck land and sailed to Noumea, Brisbane and Port Moresby. She reached Rabaul after stops at Samarai, Lae and Madang.

“We have been most impressed by the unspoiled beauty of New Guinea, the very pretty and prosperous towns and extremely friendly people,” Miss Henriksen said in a note to PIM.

She said the crew intended to work in Honiara for a few months before leaving for Singapore. • WAIRANGL 33 ft NZ ketch, reached the Mooloola River, Queens land, on December 28 after a cruise of the Pacific Islands which began in May, 1966, and included several stops in Fiji, New Caledonia and Papua.

The ketch originally left Whan garei, NZ, for Suva with Mr. Len Addenbrooke, his wife Jackie, and sons David, Philip and Shane. They spent six months in the Fijis and the Lau Islands before sailing to Noumea and on to Gladstone, Queensland, where Mrs. Addenbrooke had a baby daughter.

After touring ashore for some time, the Addenbrookes, including the baby, went on a six-month cruise of the Barrier Reef.

In October, 1967, Wairangi

reached Port Moresby, and after a short stay, cruised the south-east coast of Papua.

Mr. Addenbrooke, in a note to PIM, said this area offered a great potential for cruising yachtsmen. “It will, in time, surpass in popularity the better-known cruising grounds of today,” he said. • CHIMERE, 44 ft French yawl, with owner-skipper Jean Bluche and his English cousin Andrew Reynolds, which arrived in Durban on Nov ember 17, sailed for France in mid- December.

Chimere is on her second trip round the world with her owner.

She entered the Pacific early last year via the Panama Canal. Calls in the Pacific included Pitcairn, Tahiti, New Zealand and Port Moresby. • TARMIN, 25 ft masthead sloop, with singlehander John Sowden, arrived at Papeete on Christmas Eve.

The sloop left Spain on November 1, 1966, sailed down to the Canary Islands and West Indies, passed through the Panama Canal and on to the Galapagos, Marquesas and Tahiti. • MUNDEANO, 38 ft ketch, with Phil and Virginia Dutcher and their cat Billie, is still at anchor at Arue, Tahiti.

The Dutchers left San Diego, California, over a year ago.

After several stops in the

Marquesas and Tuamotus, the] arrived in Papeete in March, 1967 stayed one day, and moved to th< Arue district. They have been then ever since. • JELLICLE 11, Mike Bayles’ 2 1 ft sloop, arrived at Russell, Nev Zealand, in mid-December after 5 November stop in Rarotonga. • SEAFARI, 40 ft trimaran witl Roy and Betty Milford, arrived a Papeete on December 20 for a refit She will sail on to New Zealand ii April. Seafari left England thre< years ago. • TRITON, 35 ft trimarai registered at Sydney, arrived ii Papeete from Rarotonga on Dec ember 17 en route to Honolulu anc California, Aboard are threi bachelors, lan Eeles, Don Morm< and Tony Spooner. • GITANA, 30 ft Tahiti ketch with Frank and Marlene Bennet and Frank’s brother Hugh, arrive( at Papeete on December 18 on ! trip round the world. The Bennett; were 15 months out of Tacoma Washington. • RENEE TIGHE, 30 ft ketch out of Los Angeles, arrived a Papeete on December 17 fron Nukuhiva with owner-skipper Ear H. Koepke and crewman Kevii Hann.

Renee Tighe has been cruising Central and South America and wil head for Australia after a stay ii Tahiti. • EREVA, 30 ft cutter from Lo; Angeles, with Fred Sibthorpe anc his wife Mike, arrived at Papeete on December 23 after calls in the Marquesas and Tuamotus. The Sibthorpes plan to sail west fron; Tahiti. • CAROUSIN’ 11, 40 ft trimaran with Captain Mike Kane and a nevi crewman, Rich Zedelt, left Papeete on December 28 for Rarotonga.

• FREEDOM, 42 ft yawl, arrived n Papeete from Auckland with Peter ind Joan Smith on December 21 for i stay of a couple of weeks before ailing on to Hawaii. • WHISPER, 32 ft American loop, arrived at Funafuti, Ellice slands, on November 28 from Apia, Vestern Samoa, with Hall and Margaret Roth.

The Roths planned to stay in : unafuti a week before heading to 'arawa, en route to Japan.

The Roths left California last kpril ( PIM, Dec., p. 111). • JOHN HANNA, 30 ft ketch, dll leave California in March for a ruise of the Pacific Islands with a ew owner, Mr. Curtis St. Bonnet, nd crewman. Mr. Richard Shaffer, f Sausalito, California.

The ketch’s former owner, C. K. ying, of New York, and her former rew, J. Counterman, of Hollywood, nd Isaia Koromeca, who is working t the Polynesian Cultural Center, [awaii, are all saving up for a return •ip to the Pacific in a larger vessel -“this time for good”, according to Ir. Wing in a recent letter to PIM.

John Hanna turned up in PlM’s achting columns many times after le left California in May, 1962, on round-the-world trip. She was last sported in 1967 having a refit in lonolulu {PIM, July, 1967, p. 115) ist before completing her circum avigation.

• Winston Churchill, 52 Ft

utter, chartered by Mr. John Jarrett, rrived in Papeete in early December n her way to Melbourne, where she 'as expected to arrive on February The cutter left Melbourne on ipril 6. 1967. She sailed round the 'ape of Good Hope to New York > see the America’s Cup, then down ic east US coast, and through the anama Canal to the Marquesas and ahiti.

Her crew includes Warren Neale, ohn Manson. David Rohnsheim and [en Pittman. • AMOE, 100 ft French motor acht, claimed to be the most modern rivately-owned vessel of her kind in le Pacific, arrived in Suva in mid- December on a deliverv voyage from apeete to Noumea after a change f ownership.

Her captain. Jacques Nozeran. laced the yacht’s value at about 30 lillion Pacific francs (S 300.000).

The sleek Amoe had covered the 90 miles from Pago Pago to Suva i two days averaging 15 knots in eavy seas.

The craft has a maximum speed

of 23 knots. Her full range of electronic equipment includes an automatic pilot and depth sounding device, plus radar.

The Amoe made American Samoa from Papeete in five days.

The crew of eight—French and Tahitian—were making the delivery for Mr. Honori Pantaloni, of Noumea, who plans to use the luxury motor yacht for five-hour tourist runs between Noumea and the Isle of Pines.

Built in Cannes (France) in 1964 by Chantiers Navals de L’Esterel, the Amoe was previously owned by a leading Tahitian businessman, Mr. G.

Datcharry.

She resumed her journey to Noumea after refuelling in Suva.

The new owner has already decided on a new name for the vessel.

It is Pilou-Pilou, the name of a New Caledonian dance.

• REBEL, 35 ft trimaran with Marvin and Ann Glenn, was anchored in Pearl Bay, Sydney, in mid-January, The Glenns were considering doing a motorcycle tour of Eastern Australia and they also had tentative plans to sail Rebel to Tasmania.

Last year Rebel figured in PlM's yachting columns several times when the Glenns visited American Samoa, Vavau and Nukualofa in Tonga, many islands in the Fijis and New Caledonia (see also p. 45). • HOPE, 30 ft Australian cutter, which made a brief stopover at Thursday Island in late 1966, left Durban recently for Cape Town, Hope’s owners Graeme and Jutta Townes will sail for Rio de Janeiro after the Cape. They eventually hope to sell the cutter in the United States, travel on to Europe, buy a motor cruiser and explore the European canals.

"John Hanna"