Cruising
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Yachts
• TARRIELLE, yacht, with two South Americans aboard, was found drifting off the south-east coast of Viti Levu by the landing craft Duiyabaki, on July 2. Her engine had broken down four days before and the two men were running short of food. • CARINA, 40 ft ketch, with owner-skippers Mr. and Mrs. Stan Walker, of New Zealand, ran aground on a reef near Suva on July 1. She had just arrived from Lautoka. The pilot launch Seniua went to her aid and carried out an anchor to prevent her being driven further on the reef.
She was refloated two days later.
The only damage is some scratched paintwork. • MAROROA, yacht, was sighted becalmed off Naselai, Fiji, by the Governor of Fiji’s yacht, Ra Marama, on June 28. A rain squall had struck Maroroa, and she had begun to drift towards a reef. Ra Marama towed her to Suva. • REBEL, American tri, with old friends of RIM, Ann and Marvin Glenn, was to leave Cairns in mid- August for Samarai, perhaps Alotau, the Trobriands, Woodlarks, New Guinea islands, and south via the Solomons. Ann is a schoolteacher, and Marvin is an engineer. {RIM, March, 1970, p. 116). • ELHARI, New Zealand yacht arrived at Rarotonga from Whan garei, NZ, on July 8. On board were skipper-owner Graham T. Hallem, W.
Bradbury, Peter J. Morris, Barrie Jennions and Lorraine L. Gallon.
Three of the crew planned to remain in Rarotonga and get jobs on the airport construction project. • KORONG, 39 ft ketch, with John and Vicki Holmes, was in the Barrier Reef’s Whitsunday Group of islands in July, bound for New Guinea. • SANA, 39 ft wishbone ketch with Carl and Lois Fristrom aboard, was in Townsville in July with plans to push on to Samarai, the Trobriands, and Indonesia, by August. (RIM, March, 1970, p. 117).
• LAZY L, 52 ft luxury ketch, with Ed and June Lindley of San Diego was to leave Townsville mid- July for Vila. Tentative calls are Suva, Pago Pago, Apia, Moorea, and the Marquesas. The ketch left San Diego in August last year and has called at Papeete, Moorea, Bora Bora, Rarotonga, Pago Pago, Apia, Suva, Sydney and several Barrier Reef towns. Ed told PIM that Pago harbour authorities delayed Lazy L's departure because they insisted on holding the ketch’s documents, {PIM, Feb., 1970, p. 115). • KUNDA, 36 ft Wanderer tri, with Jeff and Luci Montague, left Townsville early in June, bound for New Guinea. From Brisbane the tri is to go to Britain via the Indian Ocean. • JAYEL, 40 ft tri, with skipper Len Ibbotsen, his wife Joan and two crewmen arrived at Vila, New Hebrides early in June after sailing from Suva. Crew members are New Zealanders Graham Yule and Eddie Mitchell. {PIM, June, 1970, p. 114). • CUTTY SARK, 60 ft cutter, with Australian owner and skipper Basil Fleming, and a crew of 10, was due in Brisbane on July 21 after
spending six months in Fiji, and cruising to the New Hebrides, stop ping at Paama, Epi, Nguna, Mataso, Efate, and Port Vila, and on to Erromanga, Tanna, Aneityum, Mare and New Caledonia, ( PIM, June, 1970, p. 114). • KETIGA, 21 ft bilge keeler, with skipper, NZ farmer, Gerry Clark, reached Lord Howe Island in May after visiting Queensland on her way home to NZ. Ketiga recently sailed in the trans-Tasman single handed race. • SH U-81-HIMMA N Y, 298 ft Sydney sloop, called at Lord Howe in May on her way to the US via Norfolk, Suva and Christmas Island. • THELKA, sister yacht to Aus tralian champ, Solo, stopped briefly at Lord Howe in June on her way to the US. • NEXUS, 30 ft American sloop with skipper-owner, Chuck Harris, and wife, Frances, arrived at Raro tonga July 9 from Suva, Samoa and Tonga. They left on July 14 for the US via Hawaii. • PAULMARKSON, new 60 ft
luxury motor ketch, launched in New Zealand in June, will soon be in the Pacfiic. Owner Mr. A. R.
Rusden, named the ketch after his three children Paul, Mark and Sonia. • MERLIN, 38 ft cutter from England, arrived at Rarotonga in June from Papeete and Bora Bora with Dr. Ronald Andrews, master, his nephew G. F. Andrews and T. E. G. Gulliver aboard. Other ports of call were the Galapagos, the Marquesas, and the Tuamotus.
Proposed ports of call were Nukua lofa, Suva, Auckland, Sydney and Tasmania before heading back to England about December. • BLUE JACKET, 50 ft American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga in June from Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea and Bora Bora. On board were Keane F.
Gau, skipper-owner, and Helen, Laraine and Robert Gau. • SEA SMOKE, 35 ft Canadian sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on June 27. On board were skipper - owner Percy Thurlow, Anthony J. Allen, navigator, an American who joined the yacht in Tahiti, and Michael D. Collins, an Englishman acting as cook. Skipper owner Thurlow is a retired British
ivil servant who is following a boy lood dream to see the Pacific Islands.
Tie yacht was built in Victoria, Canada, in 1967, but none of her rew are Canadians. • ISBJORN, with David Lewis, has been carrying out com lercial assignments in the GEIC ince her arrival at Tarawa last December, was to leave Tarawa in ite July for a month in the Ellice dands on a tuna fishing survey. New rew included former PIM staff riter, Ken McGregor. • The 36 ft cutter, MAPU, with ir. Basil Stallard, his wife, Bernice, id son, Christopher, went aground [f Rotuma in June. This account : the mishap, written in the style a ship’s log, comes from Mr. [aurice Harvey, of the Bible xnety in the South Pacific, who also ok the picture. Mr. Harvey is cretary of the division of the society ised in Suva.
“Conditions very rough, no sun ot —would have shown drift. Heavy id frequent rain storms. Visibility ro. No concern for ability of apu, easy work. Allowed 52 m ear to East was going to leave heading off shore or estimated 30 South at 4 a.m. On deck 9.15 to 30 a.m., heavy rain.
“Dozing till 4 a.m. at 3.45 crashed i reef, luckily tide was making out H hrs., otherwise would have t edge and foundered. Breakers caking over ship, feared she may swept into chasm or coral heads, ew uninjured, Mr. Stallard broken se, injured elbow, some bruises. ; day break to shore in dinghy. > hospital, kindness of people, lecially Ratu Maraf and family yond words.
“Staying at his home. Mapu with stood battering 20 ft, port side partly ground away, ship not out of shape slightest degree, starboard side and ends damaged side perfect, staying to rebuild, six months or more.
“Christopher to School. Been cruising from New Zealand two years, was heading for Honolulu via islands. Only needed to be 100 ft more to East and would have cleared extreme South East point and into open water. Wrecked just off Noatau village. Estimate at 9.10 a.m. about 1 i miles off shore. Average speed 6 knots for passage, jib first day out perfect, engine, no wind. Left from Yasawaroa.” • The RAN patrol boat HMAS Lae went aground off the northern coast of New Britain on July 14 while on routine patrol.
Two other patrol boats, HMAS Aitape and Samarai came to the area to assist in refloating operations when equipment arrived from Manus Island on board a general purpose vessel escorted by a third patrol boat HMAS Madang.
No member of the crew of three officers and 16 sailors was injured. • The Liberian ore-carrier, Ever Prosperity, ran onto the coral reef five miles off Amedee Lighthouse near Noumea in early July.
The vessel was on its way from Sydney to Noumea to pick up nickel ore. Efforts of the local tugboat, Noumea, being unsuccessful, the Ever Prosperity, with some 36 men aboard was, awaiting possible assistance from a larger rescue vessel.
"Mapu" aground.