Cruising

Yachts

• WEST WIND V, with the Lowes from New Zealand, left Port Moresby recently for Samarai, Bougainville and Fiji. Hopes are to be home in Napier for Christmas. • WANDERER, the McLaren’s 48 ft schooner, was in Rarotonga in late October with plans to sail on to Pitcairn and Easter Islands, and then Chile, Panama and the West Indies. • TAMURE, with David Baxter, Gerry Chaillett and Robert (Mac) Nell, left Nukualofa, Tonga, on November 14 for Auckland. She reached Tonga on November 10 from the Cooks. • SHEARWATER, the Nettleton’s yacht, was to leave Gove, Northern Territory, for Gladstone, Queensland, in late October. • SEECHAUM, with Robin Her man and Keith Hanking, left Suva in late October for cruising in Fiji’s Lau and Yasawa Groups.

• Robert Hartley, Cec

Auty’s yacht, was in Sydney, Aus tralia, recently, with plans to head for the Islands, with first stop, Lord Howe. • MONDE AMO, with Phil and Virginia Dutcher, was at Honolulu, Hawaii, recently, after leaving New Zealand last April ( PIM, June, p. 112) and sailing via Rarotonga, Bora Bora and Tahiti. • LA SALLE, the Autenreith’s 42 ft yawl, was to leave Vila in late October for Noumea and Darwin.

Last mention was Rarotonga {PIM, Aug., p. 115). • SCHNOUFI, with the Jourdans, arrived in Noumea in November from Mare, Loyalties. • CHAMARU. with Charles and Mary Sturkey and Guam crewman, Abraham Wagpacok, was at Suva, in early November. Previous call, Tarawa {PIM, Nov., p. 116). Stops after Suva, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and New Zealand. • TE MARINER, with Jacques Sapir and David Chard, was to leave Port Moresby in early November for the Trobriands, Solomons, the

GEIC, Marquesas, Tahiti, Cooks, Fiji, Tonga, NZ and Australia. • SEA WITCH was recently in Pago Pago, with engine trouble. • SVANEN, Alan Baty-Scott’s 90-year-old ketch with a crew of eight, was to leave Suva, in early December for a “secret island” near the Gilbert and Ellice Islands where one crew member believes a treasure of gold bars and coins, originally from Lima, Peru, is buried. • JELLICLE 11, Mike Bailes’ yacht and MORNING SUN, with Brian Wilson, were due in Port Moresby in November. • STRIKER 11, with Harry Squires, put into Port Moresby in November on a delivery voyage from Caims, Queensland, to Kieta, Bouga inville, where she’ll be chartered out.

Retired American, Hugh Sussex, 60, and one of his two-girl crew, Makereta Toakasa, of Fiji, pictured aboard his 55 ft cutler "Baleia" at a call in Suva earlier this year. With two others, Horace Parlinson and Marilyn Hillier, the pair were last reported on "Bahia" at Malekula, New Hebrides, recently.

Next stop was Santo.

• Regina Maris, 188-Ton

Norwegian barquentine, which left Plymouth, England, on September 14 to retrace Captain Cook’s dis covery trip to the South Pacific, was laid up at Las Palmas, Canary Islands, in early November after suffering severe damage in an Atlantic squall.

Over $120,000 of repairs were needed. • PANDORA 111, Ed Forcier’s 30-ton ketch, was in Suva, recently, where Ed announced plans to build a 80 ft catamaran in Fiji which would be used as a “floating hotel” for tourists. He intended later to ship his ketch back to the US. • NOMAD, Bruce Baker’s cutter, was refloated again in Rarotonga’s Avatiu Harbour in late October after completing major repairs. Bruce hoped to sail on to New Zealand. • MISS CHIEF, with her new owner, Jim Douglas, was to leave Port Moresby in November for Binaturi River, near Daru, in West ern Papua. The 53 ft steel-hulled ketch, built last year, was up for sale in Moresby in October for $15,000. • MINK, with Jerry Nolan, was on the Port Moresby slips in Nov ember with plans to head for Thursday Island when all work is done.

• Bachelors Wife, The

Humes’ 25-ton Sydney ketch, was reported marconed for five weeks on an uninhabited island near Cocos, Indian Ocean, recently. Known to Lord Howe Islanders, the ketch was last reported in Rabaul ( PIM, July, 1968. p. 111). • LEJANA, blue and red 45 ft ketch with a teak deck and an electric winch, was stolen in Los Angeles on August 29. If seen, would yachties contact Homer Mitchell, 611 West Sixth St., LA, 90017. Reward! • LORI, with Jim Ballard and crewgirl Judy, was at Moorea, French Polynesia recently with plans later to explore the Leeward Islands. Calls have included Ua-Huka, Nukuhiva and Ua-Pou and Tahiti, all in French Polynesia. • ALT AIR, 48 ft ketch with Dick Soupene and his wife and crewgirl Pat Rinehart, was at Pago Pago, American Samoa, in early November.