Cruising Yachts

• JELLICLE 11, 25 ft sloop which reached Russell, NZ, last December (PIM, Feb., p. 114), looks like staying in NZ waters for some time, says her single-handed skipper Mike Bayles.

Mike sailed his original Jellicle out from England to NZ in 1955, but was recalled for naval service in England after a week’s stay. He then sold Jellicle in Auckland. Last November he made a brief call at Rarotonga.

• Sea Wanderer, 36 Ft

ketch, has been in NZ since last December but her skipper, author Edward Allcard made a recent flight home to England following the death of his father. Sea Wanderer re mained on a NZ slipway at West haven. Mr. Allcard expects to continue his leisurely cruise around the world later this year. Pacific Islands stops have included the Tuamotus, Tahiti, Aitutaki and Nukualofa. • DISCOVERY, 33 ft ketch, was to leave Papeete in early April for the Tuamotus, Marquesas and then Hawaii. Before leaving, the Hogan family—Ben, 35, his wife Carol, Robbie, 12, and Starri, 12—

all hoped to spend about two weeks on Moorea. • RENEE TIGH, 30 ft ketch, left Papeete on March 14 for the lower' Society Islands with Eajrl Koepe and Kevin Hann, After stops in several of these islands Renee Tigh will head south for Rarotonga and then west for Fiji and Australia. • APOGEE, 30 ft American yacht, left Durban in late March for the West Indies with single hander Alan Eddy and his pet cat Christine. Alan began sailing around the world in 1963 and passed through the Pacific Islands in 1966-67. He picked up Christine at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean.

See also item under Bona Dea, p. 111. • DOVE, Lee Graham’s 24 ft fibreglass sloop, left Durban on March 8 for the West Indies.

Graham, now 19, left San Pedro, California, in July, 1965 to attempt to be the youngest yachtsman to sail round the world. He crossed the South Pacific in 1965-66. Our last paragrah on Lee appeared when he was stranded in Mauritius with a broken mast (PIM, Dec., 1967, P- 115). • NARHVAL, 35 ft gaff-rigged American cutter, left Durban on March 1 for the West Indies.

Narhval reached Thursday Island last July with skipper David Erlen kotter, of Honolulu, Peter Serine and Eric Williamson, both of Queensland. Pacific Islands stops before Thursday Island included Gizo, Shortland Islands, Vella Lav ella, Bougainville, Rabaul, Samarai and Port Moresby. • ATE A, 30 ft American fibre glass ketch, left Durban in late January for the West Indies with the Symons family. The family Gordon, his wife Cookie and Carol, 17—left Los Angeles in June, 1964, and made stops at Tahiti, Cook Is lands, Samoa, Fiji, and Port Moresby in the Pacific Islands before reaching Durban via Darwin, Christmas Island, Cocos, Mauritius and Reunion. See also p. 111. • DRIVER, 62 ft luxury yacht from Vancouver, left Papeete on March 13 for the outer Society Islands, and then Rarotonga. Driver is sailed by skipper Phil Graham, a Vancouver businessman, with his wife Joan and his four sons, Phil, 16, Chris, 15, Bruce, 11, and Laurence, seven. In Papeete Mr.

Graham signed on a new cook and engineer, Roger Grey.

• CAMIRA, 41 ft yawl, wi four Italian migrants to Australia Bruno Vata, Nino Yugovaz, Lucia de Gastani and Luigi Romolo ■ left Sydney on April 7 for Noume After Noumea, Camira will stop Suva, Pago Pago, Papeete and t Marquesas before heading f Trieste, Italy. The four men bu the yawl in a Sydney backya three years ago (PIM, Apr., 116). • JESSIE W, 35 ft triman with an 80-year-old Australi clergyman, the Rev. Fredrick Watts, left Suva in early April f the outer islands of Fiji.

With the support of the Bish in Polynesia, Bishop J. C. Vockli Mr. Watts will carry out missio ary work in the outer islands a; also work for the American Pea Corps workers in Fiji who are present short of a boat.

He left Sydney for the islan last July ( PIM, Aug., 1967, p. 112

The "Camira" on Sydney Cove. In t[?] background is the Opera House. S[?] item below.

• Sarabande, 36 Ft Nz

;ch, was to leave NZ in April for cruise through the Pacific Islands Hawaii, and then around the rid. Her skipper is Basil Diet m, who previously did some lising on the big American looner Dante Deo (wrecked off ;tnam in 1967), and her crew 1 include an Australian girl and Scot. • DAUNTLESS, 28 ft trimaran m Seattle, which reached Rus 1, NZ, late last year after cross the South Pacific (PIM, Mar., 109), will leave NZ in May on ther travels. Her crew, students •ol Preston and Curt Huffman, re been fruit picking to earn extra ids. » PROCAX, 34 ft Norwegian ter, with Guy Cappeliez and wife Viviene, was to leave Auck d in April for Tonga, Fiji, New inea, Indonesia, Mauritius, Dur i, Capetown, St. Helena, Ascen n Island and the Azores before ching Belgium about April, >9.

Ihe young Belgian couple left igium in Procax in October, >6, and called at most major ts in Polynesia before reaching Procax arrived at Rarotonga ; September {PIM, Nov., 1967, 109). » MATATUA, 36 ft NZ cutter, ich appeared in these columns eral times in 1966 and early >7, was up for sale in NZ recent for SNZ6,OOO. Her yachting tiers were Mr. and Mrs. George tcher, of Auckland, and their . David, who made many stops French Polynesia aboard Mata

» Lei Lei Lassen, 26 Ft

•eglass yacht, with singlehander tann Trauner, of Kalgenfurt, stria, was to leave Papeete in ril for the Samoas. The yacht ched Papeete on January 2 after trip from Balboa, Panama, with ps in the Marquesas. i KYRENIA, five-ton yacht, 5 to leave Papeete on March 20 the lower Society Islands, the ok Islands and then NZ. Aboard re skipper Alastair Robertson and i brothers, Yves and Jack rioud. i REBEL, 35 ft US trimaran, with irvin and Ann Glenn, was still Sydney in April, contemplating winter voyage via the Barrier

Reef to New Guinea, and then on to South Africa. If this contemplation comes to nothing, then they will head for New Zealand, which really should confuse their friends, In the last few months they have completed a car and ferry trip to Tasmania. • BONA DEA, 41 ft cruising ketch has won the first Port Moresby to Durban cruising yacht race, covering the 6,959 miles sailed at an average of 138 miles a day.

Bona Dea, skippered by Mr.

Andrew Price, won a $lOO cash prize, donated by Mr. Noel Maloney, of Port Moresby. She left Port Moresby

on July 23, 1967, and reached Dur ban on October 18, after eight stops en route.

Two other well-known cruising yachts—Alan Eddy’s Apogee and Mr. G. Symons’ A tea filled second and third places in the race, with daily averages of 132 and 120 miles respectively.

The race was judged and arranged by the Papua Yacht Club and the Point Yacht Club, Durban, During 1967 six cruising yachts took log sheets on their departure from Port Moresby to compete in the race but by December 31, only three of the six had completed forms.

• KITTIWAKE, Ed Boden’s yacht, reached Sydney on March 28 from Russell, N.Z, So far Ed has made stops at Tahiti, Moorea, Aitu taki, Rarotonga and Tonga {PIM, Mar., p. 112). • VICTORIA, 36 ft double ended, gaff-rigged cutter, left Sydney on April 3 for NZ, Fiji, New Cale donia, Tonga, the New Hebrides and then Port Moresby.

Aboard were a Canadian draughts man, Mr. Harry Gilbert, and his fiancee, Adrienne Matzenik, the former nurse of the late Australian poetess, Dorothea Mackellar.

Mr. Gilbert reached Sydney last October after a solo trans-Pacific crossing from San Diego, via Nuka hiva, Rangiroa, Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora, NZ and Port Stephens, NSW.

He plans to reach Port Moresby in November and wait out the hurricane season until April, 1969, and then set out aross the Indian Ocean to South Arica and then the West Indies.

Miss Matzenik, who formerly lived in a flat opposite where Victoria was moored in Sydney, told PIM she “fell in love with the cutter first, and Harry second”.

She added that they would pn baby get married in Mexico. • SOLO, 57 ft Sydney yawl, wil Swiss-born skipper Vic Meyer, 6 and crew Mary Peitsch, 30, and A 1 son Holster, 33, was to leave Sm in late April for Honolulu, Sa Francisco, Acapulco and the Gal; pagos Islands.

Solo reached Suva in early Api after leaving Sydney on March 1 ( PIM, Apr., p. 114).

• Roselle La Douce, 37

cutter, was to leave Suva in la April or May for Australia with r tired sea captain, Jack Elsdon, < Northumberland, UK, and his wif Captain Elsdon recently mastere the island trader Vuniwai on a tr from Suva to Cikobia Island, norl of Vanua Levu, to pick up a se iously-ill woman. • FAST LADY, 31 ft sloo which was wrecked on Aitutaki, Coc Islands, last December, reache Raratonga in late January after slow, five-day sail from Aitutaki.

At Aitutaki her Japanese owne sold her to an expatriate Coc Islands public servant, Mr. Jc Wort (PIM, Mar., p. 109). Wil a Cook Islands crew of four 1 navigated the sloop to Rarotong by beaming a transistor off Aitutal and Rarotonga, • ESCAPEE, 41 ft cutter wil owner-skipper Mr. Ralph Syk( and his wife Vivienee, both Can; dians, was to leave Whangarei, Ni for further cruising in the Soul Pacific.

In a note to PIM, Mr. Syk< said Escapee recently beat tl American 40 ft ketch Bacchus i a race from Tonga to Russell, N. 2 by a few hours.

“On checking our charts v found we were close to each oth( the whole trip, but didn’t see sign of each other,” Mr. Syk« said. • MY ON lE, 36 ft America ketch, on her third circumnavig: tion, was to leave Auckland i March for a visit to Suwarro 1 Island, in the Cooks, and a sho: stay with NZ-er Tom Neale.

Myonie's crew, husband and wil A 1 and Helen Gehrman. inten sailing around the north of Austn lia after Suwarrow, and into th Indian Ocean, working their wa slowly home to Miami, via Sout Africa.