Cruising Yachts

• DOVE, Lee Graham’s 24 ft reglass sloop, was in Gordon’s y, 25 miles from Capetown, South fica, in mid-May.

After leaving Durban on March 8 IM, May, p. 110) for the West lies, Lee made stops at Port izabeth and East London, South rica, before reaching Gordon s ■y.

While in South Africa, Lee made inland trip to Johannesburg lere he met a girl he had pre >usly known in Los Angeles, ipetown reports said the couple arried soon after and Lee was ac mpanied by his wife at Gordon’s iy. • KYRENIA, 25 ft yacht, left iva early in June for the New sbrides, with Frenchman Yves arioud, who plans to sail home.

The 22-year-old Garioud bought e yacht in Papeete and sailed in r to Fiji, via the Cooks and Tonga, th her former owner, Alaister of NZ (PIM, June, p. ►7).

Robertson left the yacht at Suva go home. • SHEARWATERS, Brisbane cut r, was to leave Rabaul in late June r Madang and then Timor with d and Barbara Nettleton and their X “Fred”. To date they have spent ro months cruising NG waters.

The Nettletons made a cruise to e Pacific Islands six years ago and e well known to Lord Howe landers because of the many stops icy have made there. • JANUS LEE, Tahiti ketch from lelbourne, was to leave Rabaul in te June for Japan, via the Phillip ines and Taiwan, Last year Janus Lee made a call ; Kirakira, eastern Solomons, with tipper Ken Mortimer (PIM, Oct., 967, p. 116). • P AVAN A, 52 ft staysail 'hooner, with skipper-owner Bill rown and a crew of two, was in .abaul in June after a cruise out of ort Moresby. On this cruise Pavana r as struck by lightning and her radio erial destroyed.

Last year the Sydney schooner won the Port Moresby to Kerema yacht race ( PIM, May 1967, p. 101). • CAMIR A, 41 ft yawl, with four Italian migrants to Australia—Bruno Yalta, Nino Yugovaz, Luciana de Gastani and Luigi Romolo —arrived at Nukualofa on June 13 after a five day trip from Suva.

After an extensive cruise of the Pacific Islands, Camira, which left Sydney on April 7, will head for Italy ( PIM, May, p. 110). • NIRVANA, 50 ft ketch, left

Sydney in early June for two small Melanesian atolls, Ontong Java and Nukumanu, via Noumea and Honiara.

On board were skipper and owner George Balkanyi, freelance journalist, John Heweston, 26, judo instructor and photographer, Alain Le Troidec, 26, and Jacques Sapir, 32, an engineer.

George’s attractive wife, Eliane, flew from Sydney to Noumea to collect her two dogs, Amber and Jade. She plans to join Nirvana m Noumea.

Nirvana’s yachtsmen hope to spend

out three months in the two atolls, idying the Islanders’ way of life, ley hope to produce a film about eir experiences and George will ite articles for Italian newspapers.

About September, Nirvana will turn to Noumea before setting off r Singapore, via Torres Strait and >rt Moresby. Nirvana reached dney in February {PIM, Mar., p. 9). • SARABANDE, Sydney-register -36 ft ketch, with skipper Basil ethelm, was to leave Vila in June r Bali and Singapore, via Port oresby, Thursday Island and irwin.

Sarabande left NZ in late April d sailed to Noumea and then ade a stop at Lifou in the Loyalty roup before reaching Vila.

In a note to PIM from Vila in ne, Mr. Diethelm said: “I have no t plan to sail around the world, it just ‘around’. I hope to make ture ports in one piece”. • KOTOKU, NZ trimaran, was ecked on Hen Island, off the North and of NZ, in late May, after ily four days out of Auckland on world cruise.

Her crew of six, including an li ar-old girl, Norma Hamilton, spent ven days marooned on the island itil they were rescued by local •lice. They had made tents from ils and slept in caves.

A spokesman for the crew said ;er another attempt would be made a later date to sail around the )rld. • ERYX 11, 100-ton, 83 ft French hooner, with skipper John de 3gue and a crew of four French sn and one Englishman, left Pago igo in late May for the New Solomons and then the ir East.

Eryx 11, built in Southampton, igland, and currently owned by

a small French company, paid calls at the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Tahiti before reach ing Pago Pago in mid-May.

The schooner is named after the Greek goddess of the sea. ® KISMET, 34 ft ketch with Turks, Sadun Boro, 38, and his wife, Oda, arrived home in early June after a circumnavigation out of Turkey, begun in August, 1965.

Crowds cheered, sirens sounded and an official party greeted the Boros.

In her travels through the Pacific

Islands, Kismet called at the Gala pagos Islands, Marquesas, Tahiti, Vavau (Tonga), Fiji, the New Hebrides and NG. She was in Port Moresby late last year ( PIM, Nov.,. 1967, p. 107). • VADJJRA, 93 ft ketch, with skipper Dr. Christian Jonville, was to leave Suva on June 20 for Papeete.

Vadura left France in February, 1967. After leaving Port Moresby in April this year she made calls in the Solomons and Fiji before reaching Vila recently.

In a note to PIM from Vila, Dr.

Jonville said the owner of Vadura,

. Gerard Leclery, and a Urugayan nter, Carlos Paez Vilaro, were king a 35 mm film of the Pacific mds for the Dahlia Film Com iy. dr. Vilaro painted a mural of liti’s new Faaa airport in 1964.

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Iney ketch, with Mr. and Mrs. iham Hume, of England, left haul for Durban in June after a / of six months. They will sail via t Moresby and Darwin. [he ketch was last reported at niara ( PIM, Oct., 1967, p. 116). » YETI, 35 ft NZ masthead sloop, h Bob Bokhorst and Fred Libeau, 5 to leave Suva in mid-May for a, via Lautoka and the Yasawas 3up. After Vila, Yeti will sail for umea. fhe sloop arrived in Suva in early ,y from Auckland. Mr. Bokhorst It her in threc-and-a-half years in xiend’s shipyard.

• Island Waters, 82 Ft

ury motor yacht, left Suva in mid le for both Samoas and Tahiti, e yacht’s skipper, Captain Albert ss, and a crew of 10 Seychelle and i Islanders are crewing the yacht her owners, Mr. and Mrs. Gurnne inn, of Palm Beach, Florida.

I2alls before Fiji included Port >resby and Thursday Island. • NEOPHYTE TOO, 48 ft cutter, h American yachtsman Lee Quinn, .ched Sydney in early June after

a trans-Pacific crossing which included a stop at Bora Bora last November (PIM, Dec., 1967, p. 117).

Mr. Quinn, who has gained world fame for using all-girl crews, promptly bought another yacht in Brisbane after his arrival in Aus tralia.

He then announced plans to take a group of girls on motorcycles across Asia and Africa, starting in Singapore and ending at Capetown.

Mr. Quinn, whose calling card lists his occupation as “Adventurer”, receives a high income from an ex tensive chain of engineering firms.

• ASTROCYTE, 50 ft sloop, out of Vancouver, British Columbia, with Dr. Charles and Ruth Gould, left Sydney for New Guinea and other northern waters in late May.

In 1966 and 1967 Astrocyte made an extensive cruise of the Pacific Islands.

Stops included: Taiohae, Mar quesas; Raiatea, Tahaa, Bora Bora, Tahiti and Maupiti, Societies; Suva, Ovalau, Makogai, Taveuni, Naitauba (owned by television actor Raymond Burr), Avea and Lomaloma, Fiji; Tongatapu, Vavau, Haapai and Niua foou (Tin Can Island), Tonga;

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and Noumea and the Isle of Pines New Caledonia. ’

Astrocyte was last mentioned in these columns when in Suva (PIM, Nov., 1967, p. 111). * kftaca r. a . cnttpr with h* Saff-ngged Mr HarTv Vtlhp f dia s‘ d^ Ug fi tSman Miss H DorotlSa b mJvpII hIS NukuaSfa on ff r ’ r^ ed tnnfmm Wh/ - 2 M7 er a 26 ' day Fn t 61 ’ .lU En route to Tonga, Mr. Gilbert found what he believes to be an uncharted reef, about 150 miles south-east of Nukualofa. He sent his findings to the British Admiralty.

Next stops for the Kelasa will be Fiji, the New Hebrides and Port Moresby about November. In PlM’s May issue Kelasa was inadvertently called the Victoria —our Cruising Yachts Department’s apologies, Mr. ° llDert - • AMANIA . 31 ft trimaran with skipper Keith Jones, his wife, Poko, and Rarotongan crew Paul Rapana,’ i r nd Ma I?T Kavana ’ r 25 h dav N tHn from '5, 7 mld ' June after a Zi day trip from NZ.

A mama had a rough tnp from NZ and was to remain in Nukualofa for about four weeks so repairs could be

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• Thekla Christine, 60 Ft

steel cutter and a sister ship’ to the known Solo, was to leave Nukualofa on June 18 for Rarotonga.

Aboard the luxury cutter of 37 tons were owner-skipper Ernst Gunther £ ggers and crew Wolf B an g Eggers, VOn Harder and Gerlad Gnahs. 7116 J c 0 ut j er recently made Suva after an 18 ' day tri P from Sydney and reached Nukualofa after a four-day trip from Suva. . D „ V K° USIN ’ H. 40 ft trimaran, Feached Port Moresby in early June ,9 m Bnst >ane with her American skipper and owner Mike Kane and an Australian and NZ crew of four.

Mike’s crew left the trimaran in Port Moresby and he hoped to sign on a new crew for his next hop to Darwin.

The trimaran was last mentioned here when she left Papeete in Dec ember (PIM, Feb., p. 114).

• Siatukimoana, 45 Ft

Tongan yacht en route from Aucknd Nukualofa capsized off Ocean Beach, on NZ’s North Island, in mid-June, The four Tongans aboard—Malakai Tapealavi, skipper, Viliami Havilili,

’*** P ? h mal % and Alfred Vatad —swam through a pounding surf F^ ety ashore - Local NZ fanr helped the Tongans beach the ba( damaged yacht. • OPTY, 31 ft yawl, with s yachtsman and Polish writer Leo Teliga, was to leave Suva in ea July for further Pacific Isla: cruising. Stops already have inclu( the Galapagos Islands and Tuamotus, Marquesas and Soci Islands of French Polynesia (PI Mar., p. 109) • MISTRALL 11, 46-year-i staysail schooner, with nine yoi Australian men, left Sydney on Ji 23 for an around-the-world crui First call was to be Lord Ho Island, and then the schooner was start “island-hopping” to Hawaii a the west coast of the US.

Her crew includes Arthur Barn 24, Tony Henderson, 23, Ken W( 23, Peter Richlin, 23, Rich* Turner, 24, Tony Logan, 24, K Srrddl ’ 20, and Ron Moylin, 25. o SOLO, 57 ft Sydney yawl w Swiss-born skipper Vic Veyer, « and crew Mary Peitsch 30 a Alison Holster 33 was to lea Hilo, Hawaii in mid-June for S Francisco