Cruising

Yachts

• Black Rose, Kirrus, In

Victus, Karen Margrethe

and OHRA, were all in Durban in mid-March. The Goodhues were on Black Rose, the Davenports were on Karen Margrethe and Lothar Harder was on Ohra. The Ohra was badly damaged entering Durban Harbour. • BONA DEA, with Dick Thorn bury, Fred and Andy Price, and DARU, with Ron Smith, both left Durban late last year after a year’s stay. • CHERIE, Bill Scott’s 36 ft yawl, is expected in the South Pacific this year. At present he’s in British Columbian waters. Bill’s been south before —as a crewman in the old four-masted barque Pamir, plying between North America and NZ. • DRIVER, Phil Graham’s luxury Canadian sloop, with the Graham family of six, a teacher, Robert Grey, and cook, Australian Mike Cooper, left Durban early this year for the Mediterranean, via Capetown. PlM’s last mention: Oct., 1968, p. 109. • ERYX 11, at Thursday Island last August, reached Durban on March 3 with a crew of six. The brigantine is owned by a British company whose directors are joining her on various stages of her world voyage which started nearly three years ago from England. She’s already called at the Galapagos Islands, the Marquesas and Samoa and is due in France in June. • FOUR WINDS, with Ameri cans Harold and Mary Ann, was to leave Acapulco, Mexico, early this year for the Marquesas. The couple spent 13 months in Mexico after cruising south from the Gulf of California. • KELASA, with Harry Gilbert and his fiancee, Adrienne Matzenik was to leave Rabaul in late April for the northern NG coast, through Indonesia south of Bali, the Seychel les, Mauritius and Durban. Adrienne reports that Fortuna with Ken Furley was to leave Rabaul shortly after Kelasa and that Ed Boden, of Kitti wake, was at Manus (Ed wrote to us recently to say he’s doing some

surveying work -PIM, Feb., p. 112).

Adrienne added- “I have worked at Nonga Base Hospital since November 5 and paradise could not have been more beautiful” more Deauniui . , A • KORORA, Dr. Michael Watson’s 33 ft ferro-cement ketch, was in Durban early this year with his daughters. o^'"™™ a cruised h the Island! extensively last year. Stops included Haapai and Vavau, Tonga (PIM.

Sept., 1968, p. 107).

• BELLE SOLE, luxury American cruiser, which crossed the South Pacific in 1967 left Durban on February 12 for Rio de Jamero and Scandinavia.. On board were the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Franson, Allan Hare, Mike Miller and Ga i apagos islander Teppy Anger *l * y • LEI LEI LASSEN, with single hander Johann Trauner, was in Dur ban in late 68 He was m Moresby last July (PIM, Sept., 1968, p. 103)

eft Sydney in early April for Durban, >outh Africa, via Queensland’s Barrier Reef, Thursday Island, Christmas Island, Cocos and Keeling slands, Mauritius and Reunion. John cached Sydney on his home-built 12 ft cutter in February from NZ, via Noumea and Brisbane. He hopes to reach Durban n October. • MJOJO, in Durban since last Dctober ( PIM, Nov., 1968, p. 109), eft earlier this year with Mr. and Mrs. Rod Pickering and their two children, Englishmen Col Frank and David Mitchell and South African iic de Vlieg for a trip to Rio de aniero. • NEXUS, Chuck Harris’ yacht, vith Chuck and his NZ wife, Frances, vas to leave Sydney in May for Queensland’s Barrier Reef, New Duinea and the Solomons. Chuck eports that he met Frances after le reached Lyttleton, NZ, from Raro onga last year. They were married n Sydney—Frances flying to Aus ralia and Chuck sailing. • PROCAX, 36 ft cutter with Dr. 3uy Cappeliez and his wife Vivienne, was in Durban late last year. She was in Port Moresby last August. • SANTA MARIA, in Port Moresby last August {PIM, Sept., 1968, p, 103), was in Durban early this year where Dutch owner, Mr.

J. H. Zijdenbos, said he hoped to complete his circumnavigation out of Holland by mid-year. He left

Holland on July 4, 1966, and his Islands stops included Tahiti and Fiji. • WAITERE, Downie Muir’s 31 ft sloop with Downie and Mike Sadler, 26, of Brighton, Britain, was to leave Sydney in April for Durban via Brisbane, Port Moresby, Darwin, Timor, Bali, Christmas Island, Cocos and Keeling Islands.

Downie, 27, of Los Angeles, came through the Islands in 1965 on the 38 ft ketch Mink with calls at French Polynesia, the Cooks, Tonga a ° FI J- In he i?°-u Bh iL 14 ' year ‘ old Hong Kong-built Waitere. • WE’RE HERE TOO, Irwin and Grace Giroux’s double-ended cutter, was in Honolulu early this year when the Girouxs were installing a diesel

engine before going “South Pacific” and then onto Australia and NZ. • STARDUST, with Henry and Lou Finke, was to leave Costa Rica in late February for the Galapagos Islands where the couple hoped to meet up with Maury and Alma Gladson aboard Dubloon. After a stay of three to five months in the Galapagos Islands, Stardust's plans were to sail for the Pacific Islands. 61 ft ketch owned an d skippered by American journalist Ann Brittain, 24, was in Durban early tWs year ketch made news in Port Moresby last year when the attractive Ann recruited some locals as crew. Her four (all male) crew left Valhalla in Durban.