Cruising

Yachts

WHAI, 44-ft New Zealand cata aran, with owner Peter Spurdle and /q crew, left Noumea at the end : April, after a three week visit ir underwater diving. They were to >yage to Expo 70 at Osaka, taking ree months via the Hebrides and ew Guinea. • FREY A, 15-ton Australian x>p, arrived at Rarotonga from □ckland in late April with skipper vner Magnus Halvorsen and crew embers Johan Halvorsen, James mnon and Dennis O’Keefe. All are □stralians. She left for Hawaii on pril 30. • KLA-HOW-YA, 32 ft Canadian tch, arrived at Rarotonga May 5 jm Auckland with skipper-owner rthur Ahrens and his wife, Anne, ic couple visited Rarotonga in pril last year in Kla-How-Ya. • ELEUTHERA, Earl and Paula :henck’s ketch, was expected in ench Polynesia late this year. She tensively cruised these islands last ar. • EREVA, Mike and Fred bthorpe’s cutter, was recently in the est Indies with extensive plans for uising in the Caribbean. Costa Rica is her last call. • CALYPSO, with Ron, Florence id Ron jnr. Mitchell, was at San iego, recently, en route to Panama.

Tahiti ketch, she set sail in July, '66, and has visited Lord Howe, Z, the Australs, Tahiti, Moorea awaii, Alaska and Canada. • ELS IT A, 45 ft hand-designed hooner, with James and Miriam )llock, was expected in Tahiti, the arquesas and the Tuam o t u s cently, on a cruise out of Hawaii. sita was to return to Hawaii, and e US West Coast. • SAN BAN, with the Wells, was Texas early this year with long nge plans of “going South Pacific”. • JUEGO, with Monty, Olga, and omoa Wrightman, was to leave n Diego, California, recently, for

he east coast of the US, via Panama. has just completed a three fear cruise, including Hawaii, the slorth Pacific and British Columbia. \ fourth crewmember, Vivian Tsu :ona, joined the yacht in Hawaii,

• Fletcher Christian, 76

t schooner with seven men and three vomen, left Bermuda, West Indies, n late April for Fiji, via the Jalapagos Islands, the Marquesas, fahiti, the Cooks, Samoa and Tonga.

Named after the mutinous mate if the Bounty who set Captain High adrift in an open boat in 1789, he Christian’s plans are to do charter /ork in Fiji. • WAIRANGI, 33 ft Whangerei egis:ered ketch, arrived at Suva from Auckland on May 10. Skipper-owner .en Addenbrcoke, with teenage son )avid and three year old daughter lusan, plus Jim Smith, as crew, lanned to spend several weeks in 'iji before leaving for Wallis Islands, lis wife was planning to fly from JZ to Fiji. © VENTURE, 40 ft Californian i, arrived at Suva, on May 10 from onga. Home port is San Diego, kipper Frank Simpson, his wife and jur children are planning to spend x months in and around Fiji before saving for NZ. • SEESCHAUM, 39 ft Auckland igistered ketch, arrived at Suva with dpper-owner Robin Herman, his rother Brian, Dick Johnston and /altar Hitz. Plans were to spend bout two months before heading )r the Lau Group.

• MAPU, 36 ft cutter, with Bas, Bernice and Chris Stallard, and Sinbad, their cat, left Lautoka in May for Hawaii, via the Yasawas and Rotuma. Mapii left Auckland for cruising in May, 1968; her last mention was at Vila last year <P/M, Apr., 1969, p. 109). • TRADEWIND, Earl Bauch’s tri out of San Diego, California, was reported missing in May between Lord Howe Island and NZ. Her last mentioned stop was at Noumea ( PIM, July, 1969, p. 115). 9 LUALAN, 36 ft gaff-rigged ketch, registered in Honolulu, arrived at Suva in May from Tonga, with

Jack Hardy, his wife and son, David, 11.

They’ve been cruising the South Pacific since last July, calling at Fanning Island, Pago Pago, Apia and Tonga. In Tonga they spent six months, mostly at Vavau. Plans are to leave in October, en route to Aus tralia. • EVEN, 60 ft NG cutter which lost her bowsprit in last year’s Sydney-Hobart race, was expected to return to NG recently from New Caledonia and Auckland.

© Whirlwind Four, 28-Ft

ketch, arrived at Rarotonga April 20

Lualan, in Suva in May. -Photo by Bindar Pal.

from Huahine, Raiatea, Tahaa and Bora Bora. Captain-owner W. S.

Babcock, a 24-year-old American, was on board the Honolulu registered ketch.

O SONGVAAR, registered at Falmouth, England, arrived at Rarotonga, from Tahiti and the Galapagos Islands April 17 with Dr. J. F.

Arthur and his wife on board. They are sailing to Auckland. • CUTTY SARK, 60 ft cutter left Fiji in May for the New Hebrides, Ellice Islands, New Caledonia, the Great Barrier Reef and NG. She had been in Fiji for about six months. Basil Flemming, her Australian owner, had a crew of 10 when she left the Tradewinds Hotel marina on May 5, accompanied by much cheering and shooting of flares. • LONGSHIPS, 50 ft catamaran in Suva last October, was back again in Fiji in May after a period in NZ.

Her English owner, Mervyn Lippiat, said Longships would cruise Fiji for a few months before leaving for Australia. He designed and built the catamaran at Bristol in 1965 and has done charters in the Caribbean.

• JAYEL, 40 ft tri, left with skipper Len Ibbotsen, his wife Joan and two crew from Suva on April 24 for the New Hebrides. Crew members were New Zealanders Graeme Yule and Eddie Mitchell.

Jayel had been in Fiji several months, . • NEXUS , 30 ft American sloop, left Suva with Chuck and Frances Harris on May 5 for Hawaii via Samoa and Tonga. Married in Sydney. they celebrated their first wedding anniversary while sailing through Fiji on April 7.

They plan to be in the States by 1971. • TATTOO, 50 ft tri, left Suva on May 2 for Auckland with a crew of 10, including pretty New Zealander Marion Anderson, who has been teaching in Fiji. Adventurous Marion was the first woman to gain her private pilot’s licence in Fiji.

Ben Lee, a Fiji architect, and a German hitchhiker, Horst Koeberich, 27, were also on Tattoo.

Tattoo has been in and about Fiji since the Auckland-Suva yacht race last year. • VERANIMA, 74 ft ferrocement brigantine schooner, is near-

ing completion in Auckland. Her owner, Italian carpenter Chanti Ferandoes, began building her in 1963 with compensation he received for a lost finger. His plans are to cruise to Italy. • Japanese yachtsman, Miyoshi Xakeuchi, who crossed the North p ac ific from Japan to the US last year s j n gi e handed in his 26 ft sloop, recently left San Francisco on the return trip to Japan. The sloop has no eng i nes no refrigeration and very little f ooc i storage space. • A 22-year-old American yacht man, Charles Miller, (PIM, April, p. 37) was found guilty of murder ing his shipmate, Donald G. Wilhelm, 37, and was sentenced to 20-years imprisonment in Truk, recently, A 17-year- old girl, Georgina Molina, who joined Miller when he was said to have visited Zamboanga City, Philippines, was also charged with the crime, but her case was dis missed in “furtherance of justice .

She was deported to the Philippines by the TT Government. "Hie murder took place in February when Millers yacht ran aground on a Truk dis trict reef.