Cruising

Yachts

• RAINBOW, Rudolf and Olga Krause’s 40 ft sloop, was in Sydney recently. The Krauses plan a cruise to Europe, possibly via the South Pacific. • EXODUS, Jens and Keiko Jensen’s new 35 ft yacht, was to leave Hong Kong recently for points south, with the first planned stop in the Philippines, where the Jensens hoped to meet up with Paul Hurst in Staghound.

• Roselle La Douce, Jack

Elsdon’s 37 ft cutter, was to leave Vila, New Hebrides, in mid-July for Port Moresby, Papua-New Guinea, where Jack and his wife hoped to see the South Pacific Games before leaving for Fremantle, Western Aus tralia. The cutter was last mention ed when she was in Suva {RIM, May, 1968, p. 112). • lOTA, Simon Simpson’s 30 ft yacht, was to leave Lae, Papua-New Guinea, in late June or early July aboard a freighter. She arrived in Lae in early June after a cruise which started from Samarai, P-NG. on May 15 (RIM, Apr., p. Ill) and went to Normanby, Ferguson and Goodenough Islands and along the P-NG coast. Simpson was accom panied by crewgirl Jenny Ashford.

Next year the two of them will go on a cruise to Indonesia. • UNBOUND, 36 ft tri, from New South Wales, spent about 24 hours grounded on a reef off Tagula Island, Calvados Group, Eastern Papua, in early July. It was reported there were two men and a woman aboard. No injuries were reported and the tri. was successfully floated off the reef about midnight with the NG Administration trawler Managuna standing by. • GHANA, 36 ft yawl, arrived in Rarotonga in June with skipper owner William J. Lambie, his wife, Anita, and their year-old son, Louis, on board.

Starting from California, the Lambies went first to Mexico, where their son was born. Pacific calls have

included Nuku Hiva, Marquesas, Tahiti (where they spent seven months), Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora and Aitutaki. They plan to sail to Hawaii and continue their Pacific cruise next year with calls at Tonga, Fiji, and the New Hebrides. • SHE, 35 ft sloop from England, arrived in Rarotonga from Bora Bora in June with Hans Fleming, MD, and his wife, Sheila, also an MD, on board. The couple planned to sail to Tonga. • WILD GOOSE, a 32 ft yacht, left Rarotonga in June for Tonga.

On board were captain-owner Ken Matson, his wife Lu, their children, Eric and Mark, and friend Galyn Barney—all of them Americans. • WIND SONG, Fred Wood’s yacht, was reported adrift off Christ mas Island in early July. Fred, 44, had been knocked into the water by the yacht’s boom and his efforts to catch up with the yacht by swim ming failed.

He swam nearly five miles to Christmas Island and then walked 40 miles around the huge mid-Pacific atoll before reaching the settlement of London, at the mouth of Christ mas’ big lagoon.

An American, Fred was trying to reach Australia. All his possessions were in Wind Song. • FORTUNA, Ken Furley’s yacht, was in the Trobriand Islands, Eastern

Papua-New Guinea, in late June, out of Rabaul (P/M, July, p. Ill) en route for Port Moresby. Two other yachts in P-NG waters recently were Rambler and Westwind, both reported in the Manus area en route for Rabaul from Port Moresby. • AVANTI, 67-year-old Danish built topsail schooner, was auctioned in Sydney in late July. Within a few hours it had sunk at moorings.

The 76 ft schooner made news late last year when her owners, Leif and Erik Brochmann, with a crew of two girls and three men, encountered some bad weather between Norfolk Island and Sydney before she reached

Sydney. It was the last leg of her 14-month voyage from Denmark. • TRIVENTURE, with John Nicholls and Mai Beilby, left Port Moresby, Papua, on July 10 for South Africa, via Thursday Island, Timor, Indonesia, Chagos and Seychelle Islands. Triventure reached Moresby last year from Sydney with a crew of three. The 29 ft tri is well equipped, and has a radio, and an emergency raft. • NOMAD, Bruce Baker’s yacht, was expected in the South Pacific this year, out of Panama, and Bruce hoped to make calls at the Galapagos

Sailor-actor Rollo Gebhard and his blonde fiancee Birgitta Lundholm, photographed on board their 24 ft sloop "Solveig" at the Royal Suva Yacht Club, during an around the-world voyage which was to end in the Mediterranean.

Islands, French Polynesia and New Zealand. Bruce bought Nomad in England in 1965 and has done extensive cruising to France, Holland, Spain and the Caribbean. He can be contacted through 44a Waimea Rd., Nelson, NZ.

His yacht is one of three of the same name. Bryan and Pauline Williams’ Nomad was last reported in Finschhafen, New Guinea (PIM, Nov., 1968, p. Ill) and Ron Kind’s Nomad was recently in the Carib bean. • CAROPHYL, a London-register ed yacht, JAY DEE, a white-hulled New Zealand yacht, and HETTAE UCKLUN, from Norfolk Island, were at Rushcutters Bay, Sydney, in late July with no definite plans for cruising in the immediate future. • AVENGER, 44-foot New Zea land cutter, reached Noumea mid- May after damaging her propeller out of Suva. She was due to head for Brisbane, and New Guinea after the damage had been repaired, with owners Weston Griffin and David Herman and crewman lan McDonald. • SKINNIE LINNIE, Queensland built steel cutter, arrived in Noumea in May. Aboard were American Harry Neely with his wife Helen, children Ben and Linda and English man Peter O’Connell. The Neely family are planning to sail to San Francisco via Fiji, Pago Pago and Hawaii. • SCHNOUFI, the Jourdan’s 30 ft ketch, was to leave Fiji waters about July for Japan, via the New Hebrides or New Caledonia. Schnoufi left France three years ago and has since put in long stays in several areas, including Tonga and French Polynesia. • LA SALLE, 42 ft yawl from Pittsburgh, USA, arrived in Raro tonga, Cook Islands, in June. On board were Harold Autenreith, cap tain-owner, his wife, Sally, their children James, Eric, Arch, Wendy, and an English friend, Richard Harwood.

Pacific calls before Rarotonga were the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tuamotous, Tahiti and Aitutaki, Cook Islands. From Rarotonga they plan to sail to Suva. • Mr. Bernard Moistessier, a singlehanded French yachtsman, reached Papeete, Tahiti, in late June after sailing non-stop one and a half times around the world in 10 months.

• SHEARWATER 11, with Derry and Lynne Syme, was to leave Coifs Harbour, New South Wales in late July for Noumea, New Caledonia.

After Noumea, the 34 ft ketch (bu by Derry) was to sail for NZ, via Norfolk Island. Derry s son David was to join her in NZ. Next year s plans are to sail to the Cook Islands and Tahiti before returning to Aus tralia in late 1970.

There are two other yachts called Shearwater recently wandering the Islands. One, a blue-white French yacht, was in Papeete in June (PIM, July, p. 115); the other, with the Nettletons, was at Port Moresby

about the same time (PIM, July, p. 111).

BQNA DEA with Dick Thorn . bury and Fred and Andy Price was repo rted recently in Capetown, So U th Africa. Plans were to slip her before making preparation for a trip across the Atlantic to the West [ n( ji es before heading for Britain, • red GURNET, 34 ft sloop with Dale and Gair Frankum of British Colombia, was recently in Auckland, NZ. She set out from BC for NZ in August last year and made calls en route in the Marquesas and Society Islands.