Cruising

Yachts

• Beasley County, Ed And

Joy Fryer’s 32 ft sloop with crew man Glen Alborn, was to leave Nukualofa, Tonga, on June 11 for Tahiti, possibly via Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The sloop reached Nukualofa after an 11-day trip from Napier, NZ. • WILMA J, with Jack and “Tiny” Fletcher, Vince Banton, Reg Matthews, Percy Ward, Sid Morgan and Marina Simpson, put in several days in Tonga in June, en route for NZ. The 51 ft ketch unofficially escorted yachts on the recent Auck land-Suva yacht race. • CASTANET, winner of the recent Auckland-Suva yacht race, with Lyn Carmicheal, Mike Lane and Terry Gillespie, made calls at Fiji’s Lau Group and Nukualofa, Tonga, on her return voyage to NZ. • AILS A, John Marion and Dan Stevens’ 30 footer, was recently at Suva, Fiji, with indefinite cruising plans. • MYONIE, A 1 and Helen Gehrman’s yacht, was to leave Gizo, Western Solomons, in early June for Australia. Calls in recent months have included Rotuma, Fiji; Vani koro, Guadalcanal, Savo, Tulagi, Yandina, Russell Islands, Ontong Java, all in the Solomons; Ponape, Carolines; and Kieta and Bougain ville, New Guinea. • RAILE 11, with Arvo and Raile Nokeliene; SHEARWATER, with Sid, Barbara and Fred Nettleton; TRIVENTURE, with John Nichols and WANDE:RING JEW, with David, Tony and Libby Simla, were in Port Moresby, New Guinea, in June.

Another yacht, FORTUNA, had left Rabaul and was reported to be head ing for Indonesia.

Raile II was to return to Australia in June with plans to go back to NG late this year; Shearwater was to return to Australia at the same time with possible calls at Fremantle or Timor after a first landfall at Darwin; Triventure was to head for Indonesia after gear arrived from overseas; and Wandering Jew was to leave Moresby in July to cross the Indian Ocean.

(The Nettletons, incidentally, would like to know where Ken Broadhurst’s Tahiti ketch JANUS LEE is at present. Can anyone help?) • STRIDER, Bob and Charlene Heacock’s yacht, was recently for sale in Madang, New Guinea. Bob’s plans were to build some ferro cement boats in Madang before he and Charlene continued cruising on a bigger yacht the couple hoped to buy or build.

In a note to PIM, Charlene said they would like to hear from their many yachting friends. Their address: PO. Box 491. Madang.

• TATTOO, the 50 ft New Zea land trimaran, is now cruising in the Taveuni-Rabi Island area of Fiji.

After being moored at the Tradewinds Hotel marina for several weeks, the trimaran left for two months’ cruising in the islands at the end of May. Aboard are owner-skipper, C. V. Smith, his wife, four daughters, one son a crew of three, • SOLVEIG 111, 24 ft Condor class sloop, was due to leave the Royal Suva Yacht Club in early June, after spending three weeks there during her world voyage, Owner-skipper Rollo Gebhard, a 47year-old actor, whose blonde Swedish

fiancee, Birgitta Lundholm, has ac companied him on several short stretches during the voyage, was heading for the New Hebrides and New Guinea. He hoped then to reach South Africa before the start of the hurricane season in November.

Gebhard built Solveig 111 at a lakeside boatyard in the Bavarian district of West Germany and launched her at Genoa for the start of her present world voyage exactly two years ago. During the trip, which has taken in Gibraltar, Barbados, Antigua, the Cooks, Samoa and Fiji, Gebhard has been using a remote control camera for filming scenes for a documentary to be shown on German television. • CO RUB A and ROSIN A, two NZ yachts which took part in the recent Auckland-Suva race, made stops at Nukualofa, Tonga, in late May on their return trips to NZ. • MA MA MO UCHI, with Jean and Yves Robert and crewman Pierre Guilbert, left Nukualofa, Tonga, in June for New Caledonia, and New Guinea, before heading across the Indian Ocean to South Africa. A watch company is financing the trip of the Robert brothers. The sloop was in Fiji in May. ( PIM, June, p. 112). • GALLILEE, artist Julian Ritter’s 43 ft yacht, was cruising the Marquesas in May with plans to return to Tahiti in June before deciding whether to remain in French Polynesia for several months or sail to Australia. Julian had on board one crewgirl, an American, “Laurie” Taylor. • NIGHTINGALE, 35 ft yacht, left Papeete in late May for Cali fornia, via Honolulu.

• Bluebird Of Thorne, 50

ft “yetch” (wishbone-rigged) owned by British steelmaker Lord Robin Riverdale, was to leave Papeete in July for New Zealand, via Bora Bora and Raiatea (Society Islands), the Cooks, Tonga and Fiji.

She was in Paopao Bay, Moorea, in June where a PIM staff writer met her crew. Mike Hart, 20, and Miss Allen, 54, who expected Lord Riverdale, his wife and two crew men to arrive by air from England before sailing south. Plans were to cruise the yacht to the Islands after she reached NZ, probably by October. • LA SALLE, 42 ft fibreglass yacht registered in Pennsylvania,

US, was to leave Papeete in June for the Cooks, both Samoas, Fiji, the New Hebrides and New Cale donia with plans to reach Darwin, Australia, about December 15.

On board were Harold Antenreith, Jr., a real estate agent and insurance broker, his wife Sally, and their children, Jim, 14, Emi, 12, Arch, 17 and Wendy, eight, and English crewman, Dick Harwood. La Salle has visited the Galapagos Islands and the Marquesas. • SHEARWATER, blue-white French yacht; SEA PILGRIM a two master out of Honolulu; SEA LARK, of Los Angeles! VENTURE, a two-masted tri; ANTARES, a tri from Atlanta, USA; HAVAIKI, of Honolulu and recently in the Cooks; 4 WINDS, of Los Angeles; and UHURU, a tiny Californian yacht, were hove to on the Papeete (Tahiti) waterfront in early June. • WILLBEA, Bill Holloway’s 50 ft diesel cruiser, was to leave Papeete, Tahiti, in June with Bill and a two-man Tahitian crew for Honolulu. Bill had been in Tahiti for nearly two years with Willbea and his wife Beatrice. He helped to construct the island’s luxury 200room Hotel Tahara’a. • YAR TEKU, the Swan’s 29 ft British-registered sloop, which has made recent calls at Suva and Apia, Western Samoa, was in Pago Pago in early June. • HAVFRUEN HI, Terence and Anne Carr’s yacht, was at Grenada, West Indies, in March with the Carrs considering plans to sail to NZ later this year. • TRADEWIND, trimaran with Earl Bauch, was still in Noumea in June, awaiting a new mast from Auckland. Earl’s brother Ray has returned to the USA, and French man Gilbert Sutter who crewed from Tahiti via the Cooks, Tonga and Fiji has taken a shore job. Ameri can crewgirl Eilzabeth Hil k e n departed for Sydney last January.

The Trade wind has been in New Caledonia since last November after breaking its mast in a storm off the Loyalty Islands. • NEXUS, Chuck and Frances Harris’ yacht, was at Mackay, North Queensland, in early June with plans to put in a further two months cruising the Barrier Reef before pressing onto New Guinea. Chuck told PIM that John Morrison’s yacht Maristela was also in Mackay recently and that John, who is Frances’ brother, was headed for Durban, South Africa.