Cruising Yachts
pp. 119-121 · Read in the full issue
• SEVEN BELLS, Bill and Marci aylor’s yacht, has been sold, but le Taylors have plans to travel to urope early next year, buy another oat and cruise the Caribbean and len the South Pacific. The Taylors ere recently at Redondo Beach, alifornia. • NEXUS, Chuck Harris’ 30 ft oop, was to leave NZ in early ovember for Australia, via Norfolk id Lord Howe Islands. Chuck, who is already made calls in French Dlynesia and the Cooks, had earlier >ped to leave on September 27 VM, Nov., p. 113). • SNOOPY, 33 ft sloop named ter the famous cartoon character, ached Russell, NZ, on November from Nukualofa. Aboard were orman and Doris Malin and their ree children, Terri, Dennis and arman. Plans are to stay in NZ definitely.
• Perpetua, 40 Ft Us
maran, reached Russell, NZ, on ovember 1 from Nukualofa for an definite stay. Aboard are “Dusty” d Carol Ogg and Alan and larlene Walker. The Walkers left a Bird just before she hit a reef Rangiroa, French Polynesia, re itly.
• DOVE, Lee Graham’s 24 ft sloop, was reported in Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana, South America) in late October. Lee is on an around-the-world trip and has already made many calls in the Pacific Islands. • WINDWAGON, the Tretheway’s 60 ft ketch which was recently in Suva ( PIM , Nov., p. 113), reached Whangaroa, NZ, in early November. Plans are to cruise NZ waters until the hurricane season is over, and then head for Australia. • NIGHTINGALE, the Bennett’s 36 ft ketch, reached Russell, NZ, from Suva on November 3 after a horror trip which included engine
troubles and fire. Nightingale was almost towed into Russell Harbour but at the last moment Tom was able to get the engine going. The Bennetts have moved ashore and are thinking of shipping the ketch back to the US. They have made calls at the Galapagos Islands and Tonga, • FOX TROT, A 1 and Eva Fox’s yacht, was to leave Panama in late August for the Galapagos Islands and the South Pacific. The Fox’s have recently cruised the West Indies and the Venezuelan coast. • DISCOVERY, the Hogan family’s yacht which returned to Honolulu on September 1 after a
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two year cruise (PIM, Oct., p. 109), was to stay in Hawaii indefinitely.
The Hogans hoped to find work and recently they were at Hilo with plans to sail for Oahu. • REBEL, with Marvin and Ann 31enn, was in Russell, NZ, in November after a two-month stop per at Lord Howe Island. Plans are o remain in NZ waters until March )r April next year before pushing on. • WHISPER, Hal and Margaret loth’s 35 ft sloop, returned to ►ausalito, California, in late October fter a 19,000-mile, 19-month cruise hrough the Pacific, including stops t French Polynesia, the Cooks, amoa, the GEIC, the Eastern Carolines and Guam. “People were d kind to us and we made dozens nd dozens of friends,” Hal said in note to PIM. “We’ll be back in the outh Pacific one day soon”. • SYLVIA, with Bob and Sylvia bally” Welles of Los Angeles, and ieir three sons, reached Russell, IZ, on November from Suva (PIM ov., p. Hi). • MUNDEAMO, with Phil and irginia Butcher, was to reach Z in mid-November after a trip om Suva (PIM, Nov., p. Hi) r undeamo has made recent calls at onga. • AVANTI, 66-year-old topsail hooner, was in Sydney in Novem ■r after a slow trip from Norfolk land. Aboard were the owners, Leif ■ochmann and his brother Erik and crew of two girls and three men.
The schooner has made calls at the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and the Cooks. Plans are indefinite. • CAROUSIN 11, Mike Kane’s trimaran, was in Capetown, South Africa, in late October, with plans to sail for the West Indies and make calls at Trinidad, St. Helena and Ascension Island. In a note, Mike sa!d he would have a crew of three South African men and one South African woman. • vjivjttsa a* , • * Al ££ VA > 36 ft sloop, spent a week m Fui recently before leaving for Auckland where skipper, Gerd Muller and his crew-woman, Miss
Leni Horstmann, plan to spend five or six months.
The couple have been cruising in Raireva since leaving Rotterdam in August, 1966. They intend to cross the Indian Ocean late next year, re turning home to Hamburg in 1970. • BLUE WATER, Dick and Sylvia Card’s 42 ft American ketch, was expected in Hawaii in December after a cruise from Papeete via the Tuamotus. Next stop after Hawaii was to be San Diego, California. The Cards were in Papeete in August after leaving NZ in May and calling at Rarotonga, Bora Bora, Tahaa and Raiatea (PIM, Aug., p. 104).
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