Cruising
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Yachts
• AWAHNEE, 53 ft ferro-cement cutter with captain-owner Dr. R.
Griffiths and his wife and son arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on Decem ber 19. Also on board were crew members M. Black, H. Russell, Marlene Pukis and K. Street.
All are Californians except Mr.
Street who comes from Edinburgh, Scotland.
The voyage started from Honolulu and ports of call have included Moorea, Bora Bora, Raiatea, and Penrhyn, northern Cooks.
The first Awahnee, owned by Dr.
Griffiths, was a wooden yacht which was wrecked at Vahanga, eastern Tuamotus. Dr. Griffiths and his wife, Nance, salvaged a good deal of the wreck, shipped the parts to NZ and used them in designing the present ferro-cement vessel which he built himself in NZ in 1965.
Dr. Griffiths has sailed twice round the world and this in his fourth visit to Rarotonga. • NEXUS, with Chuck and Frances Harris, was to leave Rabaul, in late January for the Solomons, via Bougainville. • LAZY L, 52 ft luxury ketch, arrived in Suva in mid-December and was due to leave for New Zealand about February.
Owner Edward Lindlev, 56, former president of the Palomar Savings and Loan Company, said he’s on the trail of the “big stuff” and intends to try his hand at big game fishing in the Bay of Islands. His wife is travelling with him.
Lazy L, built specially for Mr.
Lindley by a San Diego naval architect, cost SUSBS,OOO. She was launched in 1965. Mr. Lindley plans to see Australia and NZ before head ing home to San Diego. • FOUR WINDS, with Harold and Mary Ann Seal, in French Poly nesia for most of 1969, was in Papeete late last year waiting on a visa extension before cruising more local islands, such as Bora Bora and Huahine. Aim is to reach NZ about September.
Stops have included Fatu Hiva, Hiva Oa. Vaitahu, Tahuata, Ahe, Manihi, Rangiroa, Taunoa, Arue and Moorea.
• DISCOVERY , with the Hogans, was at Honolulu recently where Bob was resting after two delivery jobs: WINDWAGON, from Hawaii to California, and KOCHAB from Fiji to Hawaii. • SABAAI, driven onto a reef and grounded late last year on Assumption Island, Indian Ocean, is still stuck on the reef at last report {PIM, Jan., p. 107). Her owners, Carl and Mary Leonard, escaped and have returned to New York. • AEOLUS, with Tony and Anne Carter, was recently at Sausalito, California, with hopes of “going South Pacific”.
They’re known in Tahiti (from where they’ve done a delivery job with BERNINA), Fanning and Christmas Islands, the Marshalls, Carolines and Hawaii. Fanning is one of their favourites, mainly because of plantation manager Phil Palmer, who gave them a wow of a time recently. • PEN DUICK IV, with Eric Tabarly, was to leave Noumea early February for Paris, via South Africa.
She reached Noumea on January 10 from Papeete. • I ORAN A, with the Gruts, was a recent arrival at Durban. • YOUTH, with Alan Quigley, R. Weldon, B. Newton and M.
Graham was at Durban recently.
Last mentioned when she was in Rabaul in early ’6B {PIM, Apr., 1968, p. 115), the 35 ft South Australian steel-hulled sloop had previously
made news when she put in an out of-the-way call at Port Sandwich, Malekula, New Hebrides, on Sep tember 29, 1967. • FORTUNA, with skipper Ken Furby, Warren Smith, Peter Hewitt and R. Goldie, was in Durban re cently. Fortuna was last mentioned in the Trobriands, off Papua ( PIM, Aug., 1969, p. 113) while on a trip from Rabaul to Port Moresby. • KELASA, with Harry Gilbert, was at Durban recently. A 36 ft gaff-rigged cutter, her owner Harry hails from Canada and Kelasa was a familiar sight around places like Fiji, Tonga, the New Hebrides, the Solomons and the Samoas in ’6B-69.
O SAWANKHALOKE, with the Hedings, was at Durban recently. • KORORA, with Dr. Micheal Watson and his family, recently moved from Durban to Capetown.
The Watsons are well-remembered in Tonga. • SEA ROVER, with John Lewis, recently sailed from Durban to Cape town. •MAMA MO U CHI, with the Robert brothers, recently moved from Durban to Capetown. The sloop’s voyage, which has included calls in Tonga, Fiji and New Cale donia, is being partly financed by a watch company. PlM’s last reference was when the sloop was at Port Moresby {PIM, Oct., 1969, p. 115).