Cruising Yachts

• DRIVER, 62 ft Canadian lux iry sloop, reached Rarotonga on l2 from the Society Islands, dth skipper, Vancouver businessman ( hil Graham, his wife Joan, and heir four sons, Phil, 17, Chris, 15, truce, 11, and Laurence, eight. Also n board are engineer and cook, Loger Grey, signed on in Papeete, nd John Heacock, tutor to the four rraham boys.

Driver has already made stops at an Francisco, Los Angeles, Hono ilu, Christmas and Fanning Is mds, Tahiti and Bora Bora. Future ops include Tonga, Fiji and Aus alia. • KYRENIA, 26 ft sloop, with zotsman Alastair Robertson and renchman Yves Garioud, reached arotonga on April 12 from Papeete FIM, May, p. 111).

In Papeete, Mr, Robertson sold is yacht to Mr. Garioud, but the yo plan to keep sailing together itil they reach Noumea, via Fiji, hen Mr. Robertson will fly to NZ \ join his family and Mr. Garioud ill sail on to France, Kyrenia has already made stops at )ain, the West Indies, the Gala igos Islands, and Huahine, Raiatea, ahiti and Bora Bora in French alynesia. • SEAFARI, 40 ft trimaran, with isband and wife team, Roy and Jtty Milford, reached Rarotonga on pril 23 from French Polynesia.

The Milfords have been cruising e Atlantic, Caribbean and South icific Oceans for the past three ars. PIM last mentioned them out Papeete (PIM, Apr., p. 116). ter Rarotonga, Seafari will sail to £ or Tonga. • HOPE, 30 ft Australian cutter, d SAFARI TOO, 34 ft Australian tch, recently met up again in Rio Janeiro, Brazil, after leaving irban, South Africa, early this ar.

Safari Too, with Kurt and Pat ost, and Harry Cain, left Australia July, 1966, on a world trip and >pe, with Graeme and Jutta •wnes, made a call at Thursday and in late 1966. • APOGEE, Alan Eddy’s 30 ft nerican yacht, reached Capetown, uth Africa in April after a short ? from Durban (PIM, May n 0). y * y

Alan’s pet cat, Christine, reached Capetown with a litter of four kittens, all bom within sight of Capetown point. Customs requirements will ensure Alan will leave with all five pets.

Apogee passed through the Pacific Islands in 1966-67. • CLIPPER I, 25 ft trimaran, was wrecked in heavy seas 150 miles off Capetown, South Africa, in late March.

Her skipper, singlehander Tom Corkill, was picked up by a passing Indian freighter Jalaganga, and later landed at Bombay, India. He had clung to the hull of Clipper I

for nearly 14 hours after she was capsized by an 18 ft wave.

Clipper I left Brisbane in early 1966, cruised the Barrier Reef, and made stops at Thursday Island, Darwin, Timor, Indonesia, Singa pore and Mauritius. • EL VIAJERO, 42 ft concrete hulled ketch, with English loner, John Cotton, 43, was to leave Apia in early May on a 6,000-mile 60-day leg to San Francisco, The ketch, missing from the New Hebrides last year, arrived off Savaii with a broken mainmast in October (PIM, Nov., p. 109). With help

Tom Messrs. K. Barnett, P. Bennett ind T, Mitchell of the Trades Train ng Institute, Vaivase, a new mast vas built and fitted. • SOLO, 57 ft Sydney yawl, with !wiss-born skipper Vic Meyer, 62, nd crew Mary Peitsch, 30, and Uison Holster, 33, was to leave Ipia in early May for Honolulu and lan Francisco.

Solo left Suva in late April after ;aving Sydney on March 23 ( PIM, ipr., p. 114, May, 112). • KIAROO, 50 ft steel-hulled etch, skippered by Ron Graham of ydney, reached Santo, New Heb des, in early April after a four eek trip from Honiara, BSIP, in uding stops at San Cristoval, Santa na, and Santa Cruz. • FORTUNA, 37 ft cutter, with :ipper Ken Furley, 45, and crew an Hodder, 24, and Warren Smith, 1, will leave Sydney in June for the ueensland Great Barrier Reef and arwin to start an around-the-world p, to take about four years.

Ken told PIM he would be pass g through the Islands about 1971 id would make calls at Tonga, Fiji, ew Hebrides and Lord Howe land.

He has appeared in these columns fore as skipper of the 34 ft cht Bounty in the early 1950’5. • TRIVENTURE, Australian maran, with John Nicholls, Mr. d Mrs. Ken Wise and Roslyn hite, left Sydney on May 19 on ; first leg of a round-the-world P • POWINDAH, Canadian yacht, .h John and Pat Manning, was in 10, Hawaii, recently after a cruise the Marquesas Islands late last ir. The Mannings stopped at ipatu Bay, Eiao, for three days 1 shot a wild pig to provide their ;st feed in weeks”. • TZU HANG, 46 ft ketch with les and Beryl Smeeton, was at isale. South Ireland, early this r after extensive cruising around Caribbean, the east coast of the , Canada, Iceland, the Norwegian st and the northern islands of tain. The Smeetons have made ny long voyages over the South ific in the past 16 years.

I WHISPER, 37 ft American >p, with Hal and Margaret Roth, at Ponape, Eastern Carolines in y February, en route to Japan.

Before reaching Ponape, Whisper called at Funafuti, GEIC {PIM, Feb., p. 115), and Onotoa, Abemama and Tarawa in the GEIC, and Kusaie, in the Carolines.

On Ponape, the Roths visited the ruins of Nan Matol, remnants of an ancient civilisation. • BLUE WATER, 42 ft American ketch, with Dick and Sylvia Card, was to leave Bay of Islands, NZ, in April for California.

Blue Water sailed through the Pacific Islands last year from Alaska and stops included Bora Bora. Hua hine and Tahaa in the Society

Islands, Aitukati in the Cooks, Niue and Tongatapu, Tonga. « TATALAGU, 35 ft trimaran with five Durban men, reached Recife, Brazil, in early March. Tata lagu is on a round-the-world trip.

She left Durban in early 1967 {PIM, Aug., 1967, p. 111). • A/REYMOUSE, 33 ft yawl, will leave Papeete in late June for cruis ing of the Society Islands before heading for Fiji before Christmas.

With Allan and Jean Batham th£ yawl reached Papeete on April 19 after a 14-day trip from Nukahiva, Marquesas. (over)

The Bathams, who have a home i the West Indies, were last men oned early last year {PIM, Mar., 967, p. 113). • BLUE MIST, American diooner, was up on the slips at llacott’s Boatyard, Tahiti, in late pril. Blue Mist was grounded off angiroa, Tuamotus, late last year, id in early April a Tahitian crew >ok four days to sail her the 150ile voyage to Tahiti. • CALYPSO, 30 ft Tahiti ketch, ith Ron and Florence Mitchell, and eir son, Ron, 17, all from Woom re, Queensland, reached Hilo, awaii, in mid-March after a five iy passage from Papeete.

Calypso stopped at one other icific Island on her way north from jeensland it was Raivavae, in s Australs {PIM, Dec., 1967, p. 9). • DISCOVERY, 33 ft ketch, left peete for the outer Society Islands early April, with the Hogan fam —Ben, 35, his wife, Carol, Robbie, , and Sharri, 10. The Hogans hope be in Taiohae Bay, Marquesas, on ly 14 for Bastille Day celebrations d then sail for Honolulu. • ERAVA, 30 ft cutter, with -d and “Mike” Sibthorpe, recently d a rough, three-day return trip im Huahine to Tahiti.

Battered by a gale all the way, Jke” caught a serious infection 1 was delirious, and her husband 1 his thumb broken against the npanionway hatch.

Mter several days in a Papeete ipital recovering, “Mike” was dy to accompany Fred on another • to Huahine in May. > FREEDOM, 42 ft yawl, ched Honolulu in early March, r owners, Peter and Joan Smith, Britain, sold her to a Frenchman 1 flew back to England. Freedom k 19 days to reach Honolulu n Papeete {PIM, Apr., 112). > GITANA, 30 ft Tahiti ketch, i to leave Papeete for Honolulu late April with Frank and Mar : Bennett and brother Hugh Ben . After Honolulu, Ghana will d for home at Seattle. Ghana done some cruising of the Society nds {PIM, Apr., p. 116). • MUNDEAMO, 38 ft ketch, i Phil and Virginia Dutcher, was eave Papeete on April 24 for a •month cruise of the Tuamotus Marquesas. fter the cruise, the Dutchers plan leave Tahiti in August for the r Society Islands, and then Raro ;a, Tonga and NZ.

Mundeamo, of San Diego, Cali fornia, has been in Tahiti since March, 1967. Recently she had a wind-vane steering device installed in Papeete. • NEXUS, 30 ft fibreglass sloop, with Californian Chuck Harris and crewman Barry Ross, was to leave Bora Bora, Society Islands, for Rarotonga on April 7. Chuck’s tar get, after the Cooks, is NZ {PIM, Apr., p. 114). • SCHNOUFI, 28 ft French ketch, with Jean Jourdain, his wife Janine, and their children Catherine, 17, and Philippe, nine, will leave Papeete in June for Diego, Madagas car, to arrive for the start of the

next school year, starting in Septem ber. Schnoufi has been in Papeete since last November ( PIM, Dec., 1967, p. 119). • TRITON, 35 ft Australian trimaran, with three gay bachelors, lan Eeles, Don Morma and Tony Spooner, left Taiohae Bay, Nuka hiva, Marquesas Islands, on March 25 for San Francisco, via Honolulu.

Triton left Papeete in February {PIM, Apr., p. 116). • TAURUA, Panamanian-regis tered schooner, reached Honolulu on March 6 after a 23-day passage from Papeete. Chris Christopher, owner of the Papeete-based trimaran Dawn, delivered Taurua to her owner, Stan

ley Miller. Crew for the trip were Scott Daniels and Jim Franken. • SUNDOWNER, 26-year-old ketch bought with the proceeds of crocodile hunting in NG by Tom Harrison, will attempt to round Cape Horn in December in an east-west direction out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Tom, )nst mentioned in the Falk land Islands ( PIM, Dec., 1967, p. 113), wants to repeat Captain Cook’s voyage around the Horn of December, 1768. • WILLBEA, 50 ft American cruiser, recently left Papeete Quay and moved around to Arue Lagoon, where skipper Tex Holloway will be closer to work. (He’s construc tion boss of the Taharaa Hotel, cur rently being built at “One Tree Hill”.) With his wife, Bea, Tex plans six months cruising in Willbea before returning to San Francisco early next year. • WIDGEON, 42 ft ketch, with Ted King, 60, his wife Ettie, and a crew of two, will leave Sydney in August for Valparaiso, Chile, via NZ.

Ted, with over 40 years at sea

behind him, appeared in these col umns in the late 1950’s when he cruised around the world in the 38 ft ketch, Sarong.

He first went to sea at 14, as a “boy” aboard Burns Philp steamers Morinda and Marsina, trading to NG. This was in 1922.

He left BP after two years and

joined ships for the Far East and then Canada. In 1927 he reached Gavutu, in the Solomons, aboard the cutter Veronica and worked in the Solomons as a manager and then a recruiter for firstly Levers and then the now-defunct Malaita Company.

Ted then spent the next 30 years travelling the world as a seaman.

He served in NG during World War 11.

In 1961 he rejoined BP as a Sydney foreman stevedore and left only recently after the “big firm” merged its Sydney stevedoring inter ests with two other companies.

Ted told us that whenever he used to reach London he always picked up PIM at Australia House. • VADURA, 93 ft ketch, with skipper Dr. Christian Bonville and a crew of five, was in Port Moresby in April with possible plans to sail to Papeete.

Mr. Gerard Leclery, a Paris busi nessman who is the ketch’s owner, was expected to join her in Port Moresby in late April. Last year Vadura was attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean and Dr. Bonville and his crew imprisoned in the Mal dive Islands for a month. • AWAHNEE, 52 ft ferro-cement cutter, with Dr. Robert Griffith, his wife Nancy, and 12-year-old son Reid, will leave San Francisco, Cali fornia, about July for a South Pacific cruise. • WORLD CAT , 45 ft catamaran, with Germans Juergen Wagner and Holger Rahlff, reached Los Angeles in early May to be the second cata maran to circumnavigate the globe.

World Cat was 194 days at sea and averaged 200 miles a day over one 5,000-mile stretch —a record.

"Widgeon", 42 ft ketch, will leave Sydney for Valpa raise, Chile, in August with Ted King and his wife, Ettie. Mr. King has over 40 years at sea behind him, in cluding several years with well known island trad ers, Burns Philp.