Cruising
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Yachts
• WESTWIND, of Sydney, was to return to home port in August. She has been moored in Tulagi, BSIP, for several months. • TE MARINER was sold in the Solomons in late July. The new owner is from New Guinea. 9 MYSTIC, 56 ft ketch, arrived in Honiara, BSIP, on August 5 from the New Hebrides. On board were skipper Richard Pratt, his wife and daughter Wendy and Mr. and Mrs.
M. Carton and son John. She has sailed trans-Pacific from Panama and is bound for New Guinea and Sydney
• Finnisterra, 75 Ft New
Zealand ketch, left Honiara in August for Fiji. Previously on charter work in Papuan waters she arrived in Honiara on July 20. Before mooring there she rescued a Chinese-owned cutter which had been blown onto Point Cruz reef. o GALLEON TT, once owned by actor Errol Flynn and now owned and skippered by Mr. J. Liddiard of Rhodesia, arrived at Pago Pago in late July. Also aboard was South African Jean Gobi. The cruise started from Durban in 1965 and on their way round the world, the two men previously called at Galapagos, Tahiti and Rarotonga. They plan to fly back to South Africa where Ken will skipper a yacht in the Cape Town- Rio race due to begin in January, 1971.
• Hummingbird 11, 40 Ft
Trinidad ketch, left Suva in July on next leg of round-world trip. Owner skipper Harold Laßorde, his wife Kwailan and sons Andre and Pierre have been popular additions to the local scene for about nine months.
Mike Hart, who sailed to Fiji in Bluebird of Thorne, signed on as crew. • SNORIS, with Swiss owner skipper R. Haymoz and his wife Claire, was scheduled to sail for Reunion and the Seychelles in August after spending a few months in Mauritius. • CUTTY SARK, 60 ft cutter, with owner-skipper Basil Fleming and a crew of nine, left Vate, New
Hebrides, on June 18 for New Cale donia and Brisbane. • MISTRAL, with owner-skipper Julio Villar of Spain, left Vate, New Hebrides, on July 22 for a cruise around the archipelago. From Santo she will sail for Port Moresby and Torres Strait. • ARITA, 47-ft ketch with her owner-skipper Jean-Pierre Jourdan and his wife Janine, arrived at Vila on August 17 from New Zealand.
Jean-Pierre is the former owner of the 30-ft ketch SCHNOUF, which he sold recently in Noumea. Children, Catherine and Philippe, were to join their parents from school in Noumea at the end of August and the whole family sail to Noumea in September. • SPIRIT, 33 ft racing sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on July 25 from Bora Bora with American G. C. Kis kaddon, his wife and family. They had taken part in the Los Angeles- Tahiti yacht race, and left Rarotonga, on July 27 for Pago Pago via Aitutaki and Palmerston Islands. Plans were to visit New Zealand and be in Australia in time to take part in the Sydney-Hobart yacht race on Boxing Day. • SVANEN, left Thursday Island in late July for Durban. On board were owner-skipper Alan Batty-Scott, his wife Louise and five crew. • News is required of PLUM BELLY of BEQUIA, 25 ft gaff cutter, skippered by Klaus Alver mann. She was last reported in Papeete in May. • LA MOUETTE, 36 ft gaff ketch, skippered by Len Foxcraft has been at Thursday Island for some considerable time. Len was last re ported fitting a square topsail. Last January, Len delivered Aloha to Fiji via Port Moresby, Solomons and New Hebrides. • QUEEQUEG, 35 ft tri, arrived in Townsville in August from lyne Island, New Hebrides. With Quen Cultra, Jack Downs and Don Travers aboard, she is bound for New Guinea and Java. • FAIRWIND, 33 ft motor sailei was, in August, touring the Queens land coast with Tom and Laura Head, formerly of Tongoa, Ne\* Hebrides, and now living in Queens land. • RAIREVA, with John and Len Muller, arrived at Thursday Islanc in July for a stopover en route tc the Far East.