Crulsing Yachts

• JAH AM A, 36 ft ketch with ck Ross and Robert Hervin, left d nolulu on July 16 for the arquesas Islands and Tahiti. Jack’s fe, Hamae, was to join the ketch Papeete. • TERE, 48 ft ketch, with Louis ilier and daughter Kathy, Dr. ank Tabrah and wife Ruth, and ;ir sons Joe and Tom, of Kohala, iwaii, reached Bora Bora in early ly from Honolulu after calls at karoa, Rangiroa, Tahiti, Moorea d Raiatea. Louis served with the > Navy on Bora Bora during World ar 11.

• Pacific Crusader, 35 Ft

tch, with Denis Budge, his wife yllida, Caroline Fitzwilliams 24, d Desmond Fitzgerald, was to ive Port Moresby in early August • Durban via Thursday Island and irwin.

The ketch reached Port Moresby mid-July after a 13-day passage •m Noumea. She left NZ on June Mrs. Budge told PIM in a note it the 36 ft Sydney ketch SARA INDE, skippered by Basil D let in, was at Santo, New Hebrides, in ; July. Since arriving in Santo, sil had flown to Sydney on busi es with plans to return—and haps to work there. • LEI LEI LASSEN, 25 ft fibre ss folkboat, with singlehander lann Trauner, was to leave Port >resby in August or September for irban, via Thursday Island and ristmas Island. In a note from jresby, Mr. Trauner said he ched Moresby on July 2 from peete, after a stop at Pago Pago. didn’t visit the Cooks or Fiji, we reported him in August as /ing planned to do. He said he was y pleased with the performance his folkboat, despite some rough ather north of Fiji, Vlr. Trauner said four other lising yachts were in Moresby in ly August: ZARATHRUSTRA, m Hamburg, Germany; SANTA 4RIA, from Holland; BACCHUS; 1 the 34 ft Norwegian cutter OCAX. The 83 ft 100-ton French looner ERYX II was at Thursday md, he said. • OPTY, 31 ft yawl with solo :htsman Leonid Teliga (a Polish iter), was to leave Suva in early

August for Casablanca, Morocco, via the Indian Ocean. In Suva, Mr.

Teliga was reported by “The Fiji Times” as saying he couldn’t call at Australia because the Australian Immigration Department refused him a visa. Mr. Teliga was also reported as calling himself a “sort of Chichester for Poland”. • YETI, 35 ft NZ sloop, left Vila on June 24 for a cruise of the Loyalty Islands and a stop at Noumea before returning to Auckland. Yeti left NZ about three months ago and made a stop in Suva before reaching Vila on June 16. • OKEANOS, 39 ft staysail schooner in which Joe and Benita Pachernegg roamed the Pacific for four years in the early 1960’5, was recently sold by auction in Sydney for $6,200. She was sold by a crippled road accident victim, Mr. Roger Bartlett, 25, who bought her for $9,000 in 1966, to a former naval man, Mr. William Key. The sale was arranged by Australian Customs officials, who seized her for non payment of duty in early 1967. The Pacherneggs were recently working in New Guinea. • CAROUSIN’ 11, 40 ft trimaran, with American skipper-owner Mike Kane and a crew of three Austra lians. was to leave Darwin on July 23 for Durban, via the Cocos Islands and Mauritius. In a note to PIM, Mike said that since stopping in Tahiti last December his trimaran had sailed 6,000 miles. So far, he had had 16 male crew members and six women cooks in his round-the world attempt. • ROULETTE, 35 ft ketch, with Lawson Burrows, Colin Campbell,

Jim Aitcheson and Allan Meech, was to leave Rarotonga in July for Tahiti, via Aitutaki and Penrhyn Island (PIM, Aug., p. 104). • NOMAD . 50 ft NZ steel yawl, with skipper Bryan Williams, wife Pauline, and their three children, Mark, 14, Suzanne, 13, and Jannise, 11, was to leave Lae, NG, in August for Madang and a long power cruise up the Sepik River—then back to Madang and over to Rabaul.

Mrs. Williams told PIM Nomad had made stops at Port Moresby, Samarai and the Trobriand Islands before reaching Lae in early August.

Nomad has already done extensive cruising in Polynesia and the New Hebrides in 1966 and has appeared in these columns several times. • ANT A RES, 24 ft NZ yacht, was up for sale on Norfolk Island in July after she completed an eight day trip from NZ with Dale Petersen, his wife Lee, and Peter Luxmore.

Dale, a pharmaceutical chemist, hopes to open his own pharmacy on Norfolk. • MISTRAL 11, staysail schooner, with nine young Australians, recently returned to Sydney from Lord Howe Island after an unsuccessful attempt to sail around the world. The schooner was damaged by heavy seas on her way to Lord Howe. While anchored off Middle Beach, Lord Howe, her anchor fouled and she went aground early in July and her hull was ex tensively damaged. Islanders helped refloat her. • ARIADNE, 70 ft NZ motor ketch, with owner-skipper “Snow”

Gatehouse, his attractive wife, Julie, and crewman Jerry Davitt, was

"Nomad's" crew, Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Williams, and their children Mark (seated), Suzanne and Jannise (see below).

ored at Suva in mid-August with set plans for moving on. “Snow” 1 PIM he had left Napier, NZ, June 11 for an “extended” cruise, I Ariadne had offloaded six of her en-man crew in Tonga en route Fiji. » DRIVER, 62 ft Canadian luxury ap, with the Graham family of , left Suva in early August after tay of nine weeks, and sailed for Iney, via Noumea. • KELASA, 36 ft gaff-rigged ter, with Canadian skipper, Harry bert and his fiancee, Miss rothea Mackellar, reached Suva early August from Tonga. After i, they plan to visit the New brides and Port Moresby. • AVANTI, 73 ft Danish-owned sail schooner, reached Rarotonga m Tahiti on August 12. Aboard re skipper Leif Brochmann, his )ther Erik, and eight crew —iniding Englishmen, Americans, a edish-Tahitian, an Australian, a )t and a Finn. 4vanti left Denmark last year, and for Sydney where she will jrate on a tourist charter basis, i called at the Galapagos Islands ere the crew caught eight turtles J eleven sharks because food sup es were low. Avanti also made a 1 at Nukuhiva, Marquesas Islands, • food and fuel.

• Dear Dear Louise, 28 Ft

trimaran from San Francisco, with William Hard and Mike Avery, reached Rarotonga in early July after calls at Hawaii, Tahiti, Bora Bora {PIM, Aug., p. 105) and Matahiva (Tuamotus). • VALHALLA, 61 ft ketch, skip pered and owned by an attractive American journalist, Ann Brittain, 24, with crew Ray Weldon, 26, Tony Hawkins, 22, Mike Haines, 24, and Nigel Ray Young, 19, was at the Cocos and Keeling Islands, Indian Ocean, in mid-July en route to Durban, via Mombasa, from Port Moresby.

In a note to PIM, Ray Weldon said Miss Brittain bought Valhalla. at Sydney and sailed the ketch to Port Moresby, via Thursday Island, where she signed on Ray as a crew member. She recruited the rest of the crew in Port Moresby. • ZWERVER 11, 48 ft ketch, with skipper-owner Jaap Alenson, his wife Marie, daughter Amanda and crew Dick Johnson and Jeff Stookey, was to leave Nukualofa in mid-August for NZ and Australia. Previous calls included the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Huahine and Bora Bora.

• KITTIWAKE, 25 ft sloop, with inglehander Ed Boden, 41, was to save Sydney in mid-August for amarai, Papua, and Kieta. NG, via Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef. Ed, Californian-born mechanical en ineer and surveyor, told PIM he oped to spend the next three years ruising the South Pacific after reach ig Bougainville.

He bought the 16-year-old sloop i England in 1962 and left South ampton late that year on an ex mded cruise. Stops so far have icluded many European ports, the Zest Indies, Balboa, the Galapagos slands, Nukuhiva. Ua-Pou. Tahiti, loorea (where he met Mr. and Irs. “Med” Kellum), Rurutu Austral Islands), Raiatea, Tahaa ad Bora Bora in French Polynesia, arotonga. Aitutaki. Nukualofa and fZ. He arrived in Sydney early this ;ar.

“I was told I was the fifth yacht ) visit Rurutu in five years,” Ed >ld PIM. “The islanders were very iendly so I stayed for a couple of eeks and helped fix up the motors I jeeps and outboard engines on moes. The friendliest people I met ere the Cook Islanders on itutaki.”

Ed said he liked travelling alone, is ambition was to be the first ichtsman to “sail around the world id not write a book”. • HELLY, 38 ft American sloop, as to leave Sydney in late August ►r Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef ith three former US Air Force en. Ken Grant, Winslow Brabson id Ben Kajer. • ALENA, Lord Howe workboat, as reported cruising the New ebrides recently with a team of ord Howe Islanders, including ipper Alan Williams, Rodney and [ichael Thompson and Richard waiter. • TAW ARRA, Sydney-registered I ft masthead sloop, was refitting at iva in August, prior to returning to /dney on the last lap of a world jyage. The three-man crew consists : its owner, retired English busi ;ssman, Mr. E. N. Fearis, the skip :r, 28-year-old John Smith, who is Sydney boat builder, and Mr. nith’s English-born wife, Josephine, he sloop left Australia in 1965, Hind for England, via Suez. • ROIAATA, 32 ft cutter, with ipper Neil Gillard and crew Alan ill. Bryan O’Donnell and Owen otterell, was in Suva in July en

route to Noumea from Nukualofa {PIM, Aug., p. 104).

The cutter had to spent some time in Nukualofa, after a rough 14-day trip from NZ, while repairs were made to her top sides, rails, and boom mast. Neil Gillard plans to call at Brisbane and Sydney with the Roiaata. • KORORA, 33 ft ferro-cement ketch, with NZ’s Dr. M. Watson, his wife Robin, their three daughters Rebecca, eight, Sarah, seven, Judith, three, and crewman Tony Collins, was on a cruise of the Vavau and

Haapai Islands, Tonga, recently be fore pressing on to the Samoas, Fiji, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and New Guinea, with plans to spend Christmas in Durban, South Africa. Korora reached Nukualofa in late May. • C AMIR A, 41 ft yawl, with four Italian migrants to Australia— Bruno Yalta, Luciana de Gastani Nino Yugovaz and Luigi Romolo— was in Rarotonga in early July for a week’s stay en route to Aitutaki, Tahiti, Honoloulu, San Francisco and Panama.