Cruising Yachts

• MUNDEAMO, 38 ft ketch, with Phil and Virginia Dutcher, was to leave Papeete in August with plans to arrive in NZ by mid-November.

Mundeamo returned to Papeete on June 28 after cruising the Society Islands for two months ( PIM, June, p. HD • REBEL, 35 ft US trimaran with Marvin and Ann Glenn, was cruising the NSW coast in July with plans to reach Lord Howe Island in September and NZ in October.

Rebel had been based in Sydney for several months after a cruise through the Pacific Islands last year. • ROULETTE, 35 ft ketch, with Messrs. J, Aitchison, L. Burroughs, A. Meech, and C. Campbell, all of NZ, reached Rarotonga in early July from Waitangi, NZ, via Raoul Island, Kermadecs.

During the stormy seven-week voyage, Roulette was listed as missing for a few days in July. Originally bound for Papeete, she was forced to shelter at Raoul Island from rough weather. • WAKA TORU, ketch-rigged trimaran, was to leave Sydney in mid-August for Noumea, Suva and NZ with her owner-skipper Mr. W.

Shute, 45, his wife and three children Joanne. 16, Rosamund, 12, and Richard, seven. Mr. Shute hoped to recruit four “non-smoking girls” as crew in Sydney before setting out.

• Thekla Christine, 60 Ft

steel cutter, with skipper and owner Ernst Gunther Eggers and crew W.

Eggers, G. Gnats and R. von Harder, reached Rarotonga on June 28 from Nukualofa (PIM, July, p. 112). After a week’s stay in Rarotonga, Thekla Christine was to sail for Aitutaki, Tahiti, the Tuamotus, Hawaii and Mexico, before returning to Sydney. • SWANHILDE, NZ concrete hulled ketch, left Rarotonga on June 1 for Tahiti with skipper-owner Bernard L. Skinner, his wife and two children, and two friends, Roy Dickson and his wife. They are on a world cruise, with scheduled stops at Hawaii, the west coast of the US, Mexico, Panama, the Caribbean and Europe.

Mr. Dickson and his wife intend to fly from Tahiti to Germany, where Mr. Dickson is entered in an

international yacht race on the NZ yacht Rainbow, already shipped to Germany. • ROIAATA, 32 ft cutter, with skipper Neil Gillard and crew Alan Bell, Bryan O’Donnell and Owen Cotterell, was to leave Nukualofa in late June for Suva and to receive repairs before proceeding to Noumea, Brisbane and Sydney. Roiaata had a rough 14-day passage from Auck land to Nukualofa. Her top sides, rails, boom mast and dingy were extensively damaged. • ATARUKA, 32 ft cutter with Rollie and Judy McManus and friend Dick Seabroke, was to leave Brisbane in July for the Great Barrier Reef. • BLUE WATER, 42 ft American ketch, arrived in Bora Bora early in July from NZ and Rarotonga.

Adverse winds on the last leg made easting hard to come by and slowed the trip to nine days. Skipper and wife, Dick and Sylvia Card, had high praise for the beauty of Rarotonga, and for the new internal self-govern ment. They add it is still possible to get a three-course meal in a hotel for SNZI.OO.

Plans are to remain in Tahiti during August before departure to the Marquesas. From there it will be either South America via Pitcairn, Easter, and Juan Fernandez, or return to Honolulu. • SERAPHIN, 46 ft American trimaran, with skipper-owner Fred Zurbuchen, his wife and two children.

reached Rarotonga on June 17 fronr Aitutaki, Seraphin was badly dam aged last December by the hurricane that swept the Cooks. Mr. Ber Mycroft of Aitutaki helped to repai] her.

The Zurbuchens plan to call a Bora Bora or Tahiti before sailing home to San Francisco. Last yeai they made stops at Hawaii, the Lin< Islands, Rose Island, Samoa an< Suwarrow. © VAQUERO’S owner, America]

Luxury Canadian 62 ft ketch "Driver" recently paid calls to Apia and Pago Page [?] Aboard the "Driver" on her current extensive cruise of the Pacific Islands are Ph [?] Graham, his wife, Joan, and their four sons Phil, 17, Chris, 15, Bruce, 11, and Laurence, eight. Stops since then have included Rarotonga and future calls will be made at Tonga, Fiji and Noumea. — Photo by Andy Forsgren.

ichtsman Charles “Chuck” enahan, 49, who was found dead 1 the 32 ft cutter at Pittwater, fdney, in January {PIM, May, p. [0), died from “overwhelming coholic poisoning” the Sydney City □roner, Mr. J. J. Loomes, found July. Police gave evidence that r. Kenahan, who was unmarried, id previously been a cowboy in the nited States. He had had no known latives. “Chuck” was popular with uising yachtsman and appeared in ese columns several times. • NEXUS, 30 ft fibreglass sloop, th Charles “Chuck” Harris and irry Ross, reached Lyttelton, NZ, in ;e June after a 27-day passage from irotonga.

In a note to PIM “Chuck” said ?xus received a great welcome on r arrival at Lyttelton by the Press, ievision and radio. He said that and Barry intend to travel around Z before sailing into the Pacific ain. • SYLVIA, 47 ft motorsailer am San Diego, California, which rived in Papeete in early May after 2 3-day passage from Acapulco to jkuhiva. was to spend several weeks iising the Societies before heading rth for Hawaii. Aboard were Bob d Sally Welles and their three sons, ib Jr., Bill and Scott. • VELA, 41 ft yacht, with Ed d Marilyn Pollack and their three ildren, Jodi, Roy and Paul, was return to Hawaii from Papeete August. Vela reached Papeete on ne 2 after a 24-day passage from iwaii. • OLE AN A, 36 ft trimaran with 1 and Nancy Dawes, was to leave peete in August after a cruise of : Society Islands. Oleana reached ikuhiva on June 8 after a 27-day p from Mazatlan, Mexico.

• Dear Dear Louise, 28 Ft

naran, reached Bora Bora in late le, en route to Rarotonga. • ERAVA, 30 ft cutter, with ;d and “Mike” Sibthorpe, was to ve Papeete in mid-July for Hawaii, rlier this year Erava was damaged a rough three-day trip from lahine to Papeete. On June 28 ' returned to Papeete after ather, more successful, cruise—a D-month tour of the outer Society ands {PIM, June, p. 111). • DISCOVERY, 33 ft ketch with b and Carol Hogan and their two Idren Sharri and Robbie, reached tuhiva, Marquesas, on July 1, en

route to Hawaii from Papeete.

Discovery made a cruise of the outer Society Islands earlier this year ( PIM, June, p. 111). • RENEE TIG HE, 30 ft ketch, with owner Earl Koepke and Carl Lewis, left Bora Bora in mid-May for NZ or Australia, via the Cooks.

She was in Avatiu, Rarotonga, on May 28.

The ketch made a cruise of the outer Society Islands earlier this year {PIM, May, p. 110). • LEI LEI LASSEN, 26 ft fibre glass sloop with singlehander Johann Trauner, left Papeete in mid-May for the Cook Islands and Suva. • TARMIN, 25 ft sloop with

singlehander John Sowden, left Papeete in mid-May for a cruise to NZ via several Pacific Islands.

Tar min began cruising from the Balearic Islands, off Spain, in Novem ber, 1966. • RENDEZVOUS, 31 ft plywood ketch with Alan and Nina Lucas, was at Mourilyan, Queensland, ia early May en route for Africa, via New Guinea. • LA MOUETTE, ketch, with Lennie and Carol Foxcroft, was at Thursday Island early this year. The Foxcrofts have been living aboard La Mouette off the island for several months.

ARIADNE, 70 ft NZ motor ti, owned and skippered by an kland businessman, Mr. Tom land, spent a couple of hours und inside Naqoro Reef, Kadavu, in early July before she was ated, Ariadne was reported in £an waters in June.

SOLO, 57 ft Sydney yawl, with s-bom skipper Vic Meyer, 62, his female crew, Mary Peitsch, and Alison Holster, 33, was to t San Francisco in early August a month’s stay for further Sc cruising. Solo made a trans- Sc crossing earlier this year out ydney. She reached Suva in April d, May, p. 112).

WHISPER, 37 ft American 5 with Hal and Margaret Roth, at Hososhima, Japan, in April a 1,529-mile direct trip from m which took the Roths 17 days, J per was last reported at Ponape, -rn Carolines, in February ( PIM, , p. 109). le Roths advised cruising yachts to miss stops at Guam, ually Guam is not an island”, said, “it is a huge aircraft carrier 3y a very hostile US Navy. There

is no public transport. Prices of all goods have been so inflated by local merchants that you feel like taking a hammer to their heads.

“Identical Japanese ship biscuits cost less in the Caroline Islands than in Guam, and small ships are definitely not welcome in Guam’s Apra harbour or at Agana where the 20-ft wide entrance channel has an unmarked S-curve inside the barrier reef and the leading marks put you right on the coral—nice!”

• Highlight , 35 Ft Nz

trimaran, with David and John Glennie and crew, recently returned

to Picton, NZ, after a three-year cruise of the Pacific Islands which included stops at Rarotonga, Papeete, Suwarrow, Huahine, Moorea, Pago Pago, Apia, Fiji, Aneityum (New Hebrides), Noumea, Brisbane, Surfers Paradise (Queensland), Norfolk Island and Lord Howe Island. 9 TREASURE, 45 ft cutter from England with John and Maureen Guzzwell and their two children, was to leave the Bay of Islands, NZ, later this year for further cruising of the Pacific Islands. The Guzzwells arrived in NZ in January, 1967 ( PIM , May, 1967, p. 109).

Harry Gilbert's 36 ft gaff-rigged cutter [?]asa" (above) was last reported in [?]alofa, with plans to push on to Fiji, New Hebrides and Port Moresby by member. Mr. Gilbert's fiancee, Miss [?]thea Mackellar, is accompanying him.