Cruising

Yachts

• SEAFREE, 55 ft yacht with Jackie, Lloyd, Jeff and Scott Grimes, was to leave Redondo Bearch, Cali fornia, early this year for a cruise of the South Pacific and then Europe.

Q EXODUS, with Jens and Keiko Jensen, made a recent call at Manila, after a cruise from Hong Kong. • ATARUKA, with Judy, Rollie and Taffy McManus, was at Gove, Australia’s Northern Territory, early this year after a cruise from Towns ville, Queensland. • EL SONADOR. Bob and Rosie Cullen’s ketch, was at Panama re cently with plans to move into the West Indies. ® MARIE CELINE, 45 ft double master with Ray and Betty Bacon, was to leave Auckland recently on an extended cruise to South Africa, via Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Thursday Island, Bali, Indonesia, and Singapore. Last mention was at Pago Pago ( PIM, Jan., p. 108). © TAMURE, 37 ft yacht with Aucklanders Mac Nell, Gerry Chaillet and Dave Baxter, is back in Auck land after becoming NZ’s third yacht (Marco Polo and Taurangi were first) to complete a circumnavigation. 0 STARDUST, with Jessie and Louis Finke, was recently planning a cruise out of Hawaii 'to San Diego, California. Last mention: PIM, May, 1969, p. 109. • BONNIE HIE, with Scotty and Dotty Torbitt, was recently expected to begin an Islands cruise, out of Hawaii, with the first scheduled stop, Tahiti. © UHURU, with Jim and Mary Ulrich, was to leave Tahiti and “head westward” in April. After leaving Acapulco in March last year, the yacht has made many calls in French Polynesia, including Fatu Hiva, Ahe, Rangiroa, Makatea, Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine and Tahaa. She was last mentioned in Papeete {PIM, July, 1969, p. 115). • SYLVIA, 11-year-old 47 ft motorsailer with Bob and Sylvia Welles, was up for sale recently in

alifornia. Plans were to get another icht and “head west again”. The icht left San Diego in December, )67, and cruised to the Marquesas, ahiti, Rarotonga, Suwarrow, Apia, iva and NZ (P/M, June, 1969, p. 13). • ALOHA HI is now in Fiji fol ding a cruise from Port Moresby , Samarai, Misima, Gizo, Honiara, in Cristobal and Santo. She’s at ■esent undergoing an expensive refit rider supervision of New Zealand oat builder. Max Carter.

Last month’s mention of Aloha mtained an inaccuracy for which e apologise. The yacht hasn’t langed hands and is still owned by aptain Anson E. Goater (not rotcher as we said). • VALHALLA, 61 ft ketch wned and skippered by American mrnalist, Ann Brittain, left Durban n February 12 with an all-male rew of six for Britain.

Crew are South Africans, Tony )ickie-Clark and Denny Gumming, American, Bob Wisener, Kiwi, Ben lewton and two British, John Beadon nd John Fowler.

The ketch was to sail via St. lelena and Ascension, up the west oast of Africa, taking up to three lonths. The ketch spent some time i NG last year and was last men ioned at Port Moresby (P/M, May, 969, p. 109). • QUEEQUEG, yacht, which has >een active in the South Seas for ome time, reached Rabaul from the ■Jew Hebrides and the Solomons in :arly February, and after a week left or Singapore. • FOXTROT, 44 ft Contessa yawl, vith the Foxes aboard, headed for Singapore from Rabaul at about the lame time as Queequeg. • BALEIA, 54 ft cutter, with rlugh Sussex, from Fiji and the New Hebrides, also headed for Singapore )ut of Rabaul in early February.

• Rambler Of Berkeley,

16 ft ketch, with Dick and Ann Willis, which has been cruising New 3uinea waters for many months, has eft for the US Trust Territory after hree months in Rabaul, where Dick Willis underwent surgery. • ORIENTAL LADY, a tri, with owners Jan and Karen Ebbing, and with Tad and Joyce Lhamon aboard, was in Rabaul in February, waiting out the cyclone season before moving on to Australia en route from the US

[rust Territory. Meanwhile the Lhamons were taking advantage of he enforced stay to make a flying nsit to Australia. • WEST WIND , with Sandy Lowe, his wife and two children, which has been cruising the New Guinea islands, was still in Rabaul 11 February. Plans for the next move were adrift because Sandy has been 11.

O KITTYWAKE, with Ed Boden, s in the Gilbert and Ellice. Ed re lorted to his friends at the Rabaul ifacht Club (Commodore, John Robinson) in February that he had Drived at Tarawa only 15 days out >f Put Put Plantation, New Britain, which he left in late December. His 3lans are to stay at Tarawa, and per haps do some work there. • MERIDIAN, with Dick and \bbie Stafford, still at Rabaul and likely to stay there. Dick these days manages a local Rabaul company, Battery Services Pty. Ltd., and al lhough he probably hasn’t forgotten lie’s American, everyone else has.

Die Staffords have been sailing through PlM’s pages since 1958, when we first met up with them in Vavau, Tonga. • REBEL was on Lord Howe Island in early March with Marvin Glenn on board getting some lone hander experience. His wife Ann stayed in Sydney while Marvin was making up the 500 miles necessary for him to qualify for the single handed yacht race from New Plymouth, New Zealand, to Brisbane, on April 11.

Marvin’s Rebel will be the only tri maran in the race and he will be the only American taking part. There are also six New Zealanders and one Australian; his tri is among the favourites to win and Ann says she is keeping her fingers crossed.

Ann will be having her hands full as well. She is covering the race for newspapers and magazines and is flying to New Zealand for the start and then flying back in time for the finish. Quite a family effort. • AWAHNEE, with Bob and Nancy Griffiths, was in Auckland and Russell, NZ, recently, with the Griffiths hoping to settle in the Bay of Islands, pending an application for NZ citizenship. • CHAMARU, with the Stuckeys, left NZ early this year with Australia, Timor, Bali, Singapore all planned stops before cruising to Europe.