Cruising
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Yachts
• REBEL, American trimaran skippered by Marvin Glenn and his wife Ann, arrived in Rabaul from Madang on December 23, after a week’s stop-over in the Witu Islands.
Their plans call for continuing cruis ing to Bougainville and the Solomons, through the Louisiades to Samarai, and on to Port Moresby. • SANA, Carl Fristrom’s 39-ft wish-bone ketch, from Brisbane has been several months in Rabaul, arriving from the Trobriand Islands.
His departure from Rabaul and his future plans are uncertain. • MAURI KOA, 28-ft NZ sloop has been home to lan and Robyn Singleton for the past five years as they cruised from their home port of Paremata, NZ, to New Caledonia, New Hebrides, the Solomons, and New Guinea. After more than two years in the territory, they are look ing toward their return to NZ, where they hope to build a bigger boat.
Their route when they leave Rabaul will be to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, via the Lord Howe Group, and perhaps Nauru or Ocean Island. • CHITA THREE, 40 ft sloop, of Nagoya (Japan), has the distinc tion of being the first Japanese cruis
ing yacht to officially enter a Micro nesian port since World War 11. On November 20, the HINEMOSS 11, a 29 ft Japanese sloop-rigged cruising yacht entered Saipan Harbour for a day but was ordered back out to sea as the crew did not have an entry permit or necessary papers (see below). She went on to Guam and NG.
The Chita Three arrived at Saipan on December 16, and left for Guam on December 18. It is skippered by Hiroshi Totsuka of Nagoya and has as crew Tsutomo Tashiro, Takeshi Yokoyama and Miss Junko Tahara. The Chita Three was built in Japan in 1968 and is currently on a Western Pacific circle cruise.
Skipper Hiroshi Totsuka is a well known yachtsman in the Pacific. In February, 1969, Totsuka sailed the Chita Three to Los Angeles, arriving in late April in time to enter the Trans-Pacific race to Honolulu. From Honolulu, she sailed around Samoa and Fiji before returning to Japan.
The yacht is equipped with an 8 H.P.
Volvo engine, an English mast with a jib and mainsail, and an automatic steering gear. Totsuka teaches during summers in a sailing school in Nagoya and takes lengthy cruises, often entering races, during the rest of the year. He has sailed to the United States three times. • HINEMOSS II from Osaka, Japan, now in Rabaul, NG, with three young men: Hiroshi Hayashi, skipper; Teruo Honjo, and Mitsuhiro Kunishige. The yacht left Osaka in October on an intended world cruise and arrived in Rabaul via Saipan
and Guam. Future route will take them to Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, the USA, Europe, South America, and Japan. • WEST WIND skipper Luman Moody wants experienced crew to sail with him from Sydney to Durban, April/May. Last April he and Londoner, Ron Bridle, set out for Durban via Indonesia in the 30 ft. schooner, but at Surabaya, Java, both went down with hepatitis and had to fly home. • LEMMING, a small Canadian ketch, arrived at Rarotonga recently from Hawaii and Penrhyn, with skipper-owner Les Hambleton on board. He planed to sail to Western Samoa via Suwarrow. • FAI SIN (Flying Goddess) ar rived Rabaul in January on her shake down from her building yards, Choy Lee, in Hong Kong. She’s a 50 ft offshore keeler built for American Ted Harmer, 62, who’s skippering Fai Sin with Bob Mehner (Seattle) as first mate and navigator. They left Hong Kong around the middle of 1970 for a slow cruise (via Manila, Madang, Rabaul so far) to Honduras.
En route, they took aboard crew members Penny Shumaker (from New York) and Andy Devonish- Meares from Sydney.
Fai Sin, on her way to Rabaul, was first to Bob and Betty Culver stranded on the beach at Long Island, east of Madang. Their yacht WAILANA broke up on the reef two days earlier. The boat had been aground a week and was a complete write-off. Ted stayed with the Culvers until the Australian Navy took them and their belongings to Madang. Fai Sin was due to leave Rabaul January 18 for Kieta, Honiara and Guadal canal, carrying Aussie, Kevin Kirk, as crew from Kieta. • ANALANI, yacht with Bob and Judy Willis, leaves soon from Madang for extended cruising. Also leaving Madang soon are Earl Koepke, Rudi Ceasar and crew, on board RENEE TIGHE, for Indo nesia, Malaysia, Ceylon, India and South Africa. lan and Robyn Singleton of yacht MAURI KOA were hauled out at Put Put Harbour, New Britain, in January, fitting out to continue on to the Gilberts. • FINEST ERE, 75 ft schooner with Ryan de Graff and three crew was reported missing after being five days late into Sydney from Fiji in early January. An air alert was called off after it was leamt that the boat reached Noumea on Decem ber 28 and left for Sydney the next day.