Cruising
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Yachts
• Kahuna Magic, 45 Ft Us
sloop left Rarotonga on August 24 for Aitutaki, Palmerston and Ameri can Samoa. On board were skipper owner J. T. Fletcher, his wife Patricia, their two children, James and John, and friend Riley Atkins.
The yacht arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on August 7. • FEARLESS, a US yacht, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on August 23 with skipper-owner Allan Brown, Rudolph Maien, David Syme, Tom Smith and Karen Matgen on board. • HARRIER, 30 ft English cutter, with Colin and Marjorie Edwards arrived at Rarotonga on August 22 from Tahaa and Bora Bora. They plan to sail direct to New Zealand. • LAGUNE, an Australian yacht, arrived at Rarotonga on August 11 from Papeete with owner-skipper Ross McGregor Chimes and Norman Gilbert on board. They had called in at the Galapagos Islands. • TRYSTE 2, 40 ft Canadian trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga on August 21 from Tahiti. On board were captain-owner Ernest Haigh, his wife Valerie, and their children, Carol aged 17, Anne 16, Susan 14, and Nicola 12. They plan to sail to New Zealand, probably direct. • HOUHERE, 39 ft Sydney yacht, arrived at Rarotonga on August 7 from Suva and Tonga with owner-skipper B. J. Tyler, Warren R.
Tyler, Ronald G. Smith and G. W.
Smith on board. She is bound for the US via Tahiti. • WANDERER IV, 49 ft ketch from England with Eric and Susan Hiscock, arrived at Apia, Western Samoa, on August 12 from San Francisco and Hawaii via Fanning Island. The Hiscocks wintered at San Diego and are bound eventually for Fiji and New Zealand. They pre viously made two crossings of the Pacific during their circumnavigations in the 30 ft sloop WANDERER HI. • SANA, 39 ft wishbone ketch from Brisbane, arrived in Samarai from Townsville in early August.
After a brief visit owners Carl and Loys Fristrom departed for Lae via the Trobriand and Woodlark Groups.
Eventually they will go on to Indo nesia. • KORONG, 39 ft ferro-concrete ketch, left Townsville in early August for Port Moresby. From their home port of Southport, Qld., owner skipper John Holmes and wife Vicki had been cruising the Barrier Reef islands.
KUNDA, 36 ft Nicol Wanderer tri, with Jeff and Luci Montague, sailed for Samarai from Cairns on August 22. Future plans call for a cruise in New Guinea waters to Indo nesia then South Africa and England.
Kunda was launched in Brisbane in 1966 and has been an entrant in the Brisbane-Gladstone yacht race. • REBEL, 35 ft Piver Lodestar trimaran arrived in Samarai from Cairns after a three-day passage.
On board were Americans Marvin and Ann Glenn, who plan a cruise to Lae via the Trobriands and Wood lark Islands. • KARI-L, 31 ft Tahiti ketch from Sydney, was scheduled to leave Townsville for Samarai in late August. On board were owner-skipper Len May and Lindsay Watts. • MALULU, 36 ft steel cutter sailed by Peter and Maggie Dawson was to sail for Samarai from Cairns in late August. The couple bought Malulu in Sydney and spent two years refitting her. • MAKORA, 47 ft New Zealand yawl, was in Nukualofa early Sep temb e r. Owner-skipper Gordon Dobbs, wife and cook Beryl and family Charmayne 17 and Douglas 10, crew members Barry Barton and Max Brettain. Designed by Captain W. O. Watt and built in Britain, Makora was previously owned by contemporary and friend of Francis Chichester, the well-known NZ yachtsman Harold Gordon, who wrote a book about Makora. Skipper Dobbs has sailed in NZ waters for over 30 years but this is his first overseas trip. The yawl left Nukua lofa in mid-September for Fiji, New Caledonia, Brisbane and New Guinea. • HI HIE O, 42 ft cutter with skipper-owner Stan Field arrived in Nukualofa from Auckland early September. This is Stan’s eleventh trip to Tonga. Will leave for Suva after a few weeks.