Cruising

Yachts

• KLARABORG, 110-year-old gaff-rigged ketch, believed to be the oldest ocean-going sailing ship in the world, arrived in Sydney in December via Noumea, Suva and other South Pacific ports. On board were skipper, Ove Tinner, 27, Ingmar Janum, 27, David Griffiths, 29, Birgetta Hulten, 31, and Jane Taylor, 25. Klaraborg, built in Sweden in 1860, is half-way on a trip round the world; the crew plan to stay in Sydney six months. • INSPIRATION, 42 ft motor sailer, built by owner, Harvey Godt fredsen, was ready to set sail from Sydney in December, with Harvey, wife, Dorothy, and son, Carl, for San Francisco via NZ, Rarotonga, Tahiti and Honolulu. Other crew are fellow Americans, Jeff Koch and Bob Moore. Harvey, a boat builder, built Inspiration in Perth; she’s double planked and carries 400 gallons of fuel, enough for 1,200 miles. • MYSTIC, 56 ft aluminium ketch built in Canada in 1968, was ready to be shipped to Europe from

Sydney in December after a year crossing the Pacific via Panama.

Skipper Dick Pratt, with wife, Marty, and daughter, Wendy, will stay in Australia while Mystic undergoes metalwork in Sweden. The Pratts had carried owner, Marvyn Carton and family, from Pago Pago to Honiara earlier in the year, after having spent six months in French Polynesia. They also visited Rarotonga, Fiji, the Samoas and Tonga. • ARITA, 47 ft ketch with owner skipper, Jean-Pierre Jourdan, and wife, Janine, were making up their minds in Sydney, December, whether to sail for the Torres Straits and Noumea in the new year, or head for Europe, via South Africa. Arita called at Vila and Noumea en route for Sydney. • CUTTY SARK, 60 ft cutter, with owner-skipper John Fleming, on board, ran aground in the vicinity of Moreton Island, near Brisbane, recently. The cutter sank but was retrieved and underwent repairs on the Brisbane River. Cutty Sark had sailed to Brisbane via New Hebrides and New Caledonia ( PIM, Sept. p. 100.) • ODYSSEY, 40 ft off-shore yawl, was in Sydney in December from Suva and New Caledonia, with owner, Oakley Isaacs and Jerry Hughes, and Oakley’s fiancee, Jean

Marty Pratt on board "Mystic" in Rush cutters Bay, Sydney.

The Jourdan family, on board "Arita" in Rushcutters Bay, Sydney.

Pick. Oakley will either sail back to the US via the Indian Ocean or. ship the boat home. ( • MAPU again. During a recent visit to Rotuma, north of Fiji, Fiji Times photographer, Stan Rivota, took the photograph on p. 85 of the 17ton yacht Mapu, which was wrecked off the island last June.

Her owner, Mr. E. B. Stallard, 65, of Auckland, is in Rotuma repairing the smashed port side of the yacht.

Work is progressing slowly because of lack of repair facilities, but he plans eventually to sail her to Suva for slipping. Mr. Stallard, his wife Bernice and their son, Chris, 13, were on their way to Honolulu from Lautoka when the yacht struck the reef in bad weather on June 12. • TRIDENT, steel ketch, owned by Sue and Ray Jelfs, is in Southport, Queensland, where the Jelfs are building a boatshed; they were last reported in Sydney in August. • KARIE-L, yacht got a pasting off the NSW coast recently, but manned by a first class master, rode out the storm for four days and in December was in Port Moresby. • DENEBOLA, French yacht with six on board, at Pitcairn recently from Easter Island. She stayed five days, and left for Tahiti via Manga re va. • NEOPHYTE TOO, 48 ft yacht, was four weeks overdue just before Christmas on a voyage from Japan to Vancouver. She was carrying owner Lee Quinn and an all-girl crew of an Australian and two Japan ese. The Australian is Pat Seedsman, 27, long-time first mate for Quinn.

Quinn’s former wife sparked a search for the Neophyte Too. Quinn, has been cruising for about nine years, with female crews. He has sailed 40,000 miles with a total of 85 females whose ages ranged from 16 to 54. • Well-known South Pacific yachtsman, Joe Pachernegg, former owner of the Okeanos, died tragically in Madang, New Guinea, recently, while working on his new brigantine, Cannibal. There is a tribute to Joe elsewhere in this issue. • OTANGARI, Tahiti ketch with Eric and Jean Kraak on board, was leaving Port Moresby in late December for Samarai, P-NG. The Kraaks had been working for six months in Moresby. After Samarai they will visit the Trobriands and Lae. A