Cruising Yachts
pp. 117-119 · Read in the full issue
• WANDERER, Eugene and Mary Herrin's 42 ft ketch, with the Herrins’ son, Sheldon, and crewman Guy Halferty, spent Christmas on Kusaie, Eastern Carolines. They later left for Ponape and other Caroline Islands. Frank Grossman, a resident of Kusaie, told PIM in a note that the Hervins visited Kusaie’s ancient Lelu ruins, hiked in mountain gorges and were guests at Christmas Day singing and marching competitions. • BLACK ROSE, the Goodhue’s 39 ft NZ ketch, was in Durban late last year with plans to push on to Cape Town and Rio. The ketch, known in Fiji and NG waters, was in PIM last June at Darwin (PIM, Mar., 1968, p. 112). • ANALANI, Wilf and Di O’Kell’s 50 ft ferro-cement yacht, was at Rabaul, New Britain, in January after a trip from Queens land, via Port Moresby, Samarai and the Trobriands. Wilf tells us Analani is up for sale and when she is sold he and Di will return to NZ where they intend to build a bigger yacht. • SNORIS, Robert and Claire Haymoz’s 34 ft ketch was at Vila, New Hebrides, in January after a trip from Fiji. News of the Snoris at Vila put an end to NZ reports that she was missing. Snoris, a Swiss ketch on a circumnavigation, was last reported in PIM just over a year ago (PIM, Dec., 1967, p. 117). • HELLY, Ken Grant and Ben Kajer’s sloop left Samarai, Papua, in late December for Bougainville and then Tarawa, GEIC. Earlier in Port Moresby, the boys took on two girl crewmembers. • CALIFIA, 43 ft American sloop was to leave Tahiti in January for Majuro, Marshalls. Her five-man crew, with skipper Tom Morgan, left Balboa, California, last August and made calls at the Galapagos Islands, Easter and Pitcairn Islands before reaching Papeete on December 11.
Tom, 27, a doctor, had visited Tahiti before as a crewman on Omar Darr’s Wanderer.
At Pitcairn, Califia stayed a week and Dr. Morgan and crew, Dr. John Hibbs, Lin Batten, Tim Hansel and Bob Dahl, all of the US, had a ball.
climbing the island’s cliffs, visiting Tedside and “Christian’s Cave” and watching special picture nights.
The two doctors were welcome on Pitcairn and local nurse, Mrs. Ferris, was glad of their help. Our corres pondent said Pitcairners were sorry to see them leave late in the after noon of November 29. • IRIS, Zigurds and Virginia Freilands’ sloop, which has visited various Ellice and Gilbertese atolls since early December, paid a second stop at Betio, Tarawa, in January.
Plans were to carry out repair work and then head for the Marshalls in February. • BENINA, which has made stops in the Tuamotus and Bora Bora after leaving the US last year, was at Christmas Island in late December. Aboard were four people. • NARHVAL, David Erlenkotter’s American cutter well-known in many S-.th Pacific and Indian Ocean ports, was heading for Hawaii recently to complete a circumnavigation after several months’ excursions around the Caribbean ( PIM, Oct., 1968, p. 111).
O APOGEE, singlehander Alan Eddy’s tiny American ketch was to reach Miami, Florida, in January
from St. Thomas, West Indies. Alan, who made many friends on his Pacific jaunts in 1966-67, was to sell Apogee in Miami.
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West Indies, in December. The ketch, which has been in the Caribbean since October last year, was in Port Moresby in May, 1967 (PIM, June, 1967, p. 113).
• Belle Sole, The
Franson’s luxury yacht which cruised the South Pacific in 1967, was to leave Durban about February for Rio and Europe. Aboard were Roger, Anne and Keith Franson,
Zigurd Freidlands' sloop, "Iris", leaving North Tabiteuea, Gilberts, in December.
Allan Hare, Mike Miller and Teppy Angermeyer, of the Galapagos Islands well-known family. • TAURANGI, Frank Melhop’s 23 ft NZ “tri” was at Durban, South Africa, late last year after three years spent in South-East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Her last men tion: PIM, Nov., 1968, p. 111. • KITTIWAKE, Ed Boden’s small sloop, will be at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, NG, until later this year. Ed says he’s doing some local surveying work. He recently un covered an unexploded 500 lb bomb on Salami Plantation, Los Negros Island, which was later exploded by RAN experts, leaving a crater seven feet deep by 20 feet wide.
“It went off with one helluva bang and startled people for miles around,” Ed says in a note. “One fair-sized tree was uprooted which fell across the crater upon descent, a coconut palm was cut in two by a flying piece of casing and most of the small trees nearby were stripped and shredded of their leaves.
“It gives one an idea of what many of the islands must have looked like after some of the World War II invasions.” • WEST WIND V, with Sandy and Muriel Lowe and their sons Jim and John, all of NZ, was expected in Hobart and later Perth, Australia, in January out of Sydney. The ketch visited Norfolk Island in April last year.
"La Belle Sole"
• KISMET, Sadun and Oda Boro’s 34 ft ketch which made a circumnavigation in 1965-1968, call ing at many Pacific Islands, has been featured on a Turkish stamp because she was the first Turkish yacht to travel the world. She re turned to Turkey in June last year {PIM, July, 1968, p. 109). • PANDORA 111, with Ed and Ann Forcien, James Good and Sandra Wright, left Rarotonga on December 16 for Pago Pago and Suva. The 60 ft clipper yacht had reached Rarotonga three days pre viously, after a sail from Papeete, via Raiatea and Bora Bora. • CAROUSIN 11, Mike Kane’s trimaran, was expected in Mexico from Durban, South Africa, late last year to complete Mike’s circum navigation. On hand was Genoveva Durand van Wijk, his seventh female crewmember. • MAR QUESA, Harold Whill din’s ketch which sailed the South Pacific in 1965-67, has been sold in California—but Harold and his wife Pat are in Guam. In a note, Mr.
Whilldin said: “We are saving money for some new venture”.
He said Guam’s motor traffic
problem was far more serious than in Fiji. “We have traffic that makes Suva streets look deserted, but we have a lonely picturesque island, plus, of course, the military”. Mr.
Whilldin said he would like to hear from the many friends Mar Quesa
had made in the Pacific Islands. His address: PO Box 726, Agana, Guam, 96910. • DOUBLOON, John and Elizabeth Littler’s 41 ft yacht, is these days working out of Korolevu, Viti Levu, as a tourist charter boat.
Elizabeth reports that chartering “is so much fun it seems wrong to do it for money”. She said Doubloon was on charter to the Fiji Govern ment nearly three years ago. • MISTRAL 11, 47-year-old stay sail schooner, which got only as far as Lord Howe Island out of Sydney on a proposed circumnavigation late last year, is up for sale at $35,000.
The 65-ft schooner was damaged by heavy seas before reaching Lord Howe (PIM, Sept., 1968, p. 103) and she took in a lot of water. However, the nine young Australians aboard got her back to Sydney.
Her four young owners paid about $41,000 for her. • KELEA, Charles and Leiv Kennedy’s yacht, will be up for sale when she reaches San Diego from Acapulco in late February. Kelea was in French Polynesia last year (PIM, Oct., 1968, p. 111).
"Mar Quesa"