Cruising

Yachts

e GEMINI, a yacht, arrived at Rarotonga on April 27 from Whan garei. New Zealand. On board were her master. Robert A. Haughwout, of Stockton, California. Terry Guntert, of the same city, and Mark Spooner.

She left two days later for Tahiti. • ANDROMEDA, 42 ft ketch rigged trimaran on a voyage round the world with caplain-owner Dr. H.

H. Tiemroth and his family, was also in Rarotonga in the middle of April.

Since leaving San Diego, Andromeda has anchored in Hawaii and all but one of the Society Islands. Plans are to visit Samoa, Tonga and Fiji, and Captain Tiemroth expects to be home in from three to five years’ time.

Andromeda sailed on April 29. • SEA LION, 28 ft gaff-rigged cutter, arrived at Rarotonga from the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti, April 6, with skipper-owner William R. Corry, his four-year-old daughter, Briewfn, and Kenneth C. Patterson.

Mr. Patterson joined the yacht in

Tahiti. Sea Lion moored in silted-up Ngatangaiia lagoon for three weeks, an unusual procedure for visiting yachts, and when she sailed out she struck the reef. Damage appeared to be minor, but the vessel returned to Avatiu harbour on April 27 and was lifted on to the wharf for inspection and repairs. Plans were to visit some of the other Cook Islands, Fiji, and “carry on sailing west”. e RESOLUTION, 40 ft yacht, on her way to Brisbane from Vancouver, called at Norfolk Island on April 20

for fuel. Canadian captain Mr. Stur gess and his wife left the yacht by dinghy, but found the choppy waters of Cemetery Bay far from their liking.

The dinghy overturned, but the Sturgesses were able to keep afloat.

Resolution left for Brisbane without the fuel. (over)

The wave-battered hulk of the brig "Yankee" which has become part of the beach scene at Rarotonga. Seven years have washed over her but she is still recognisable. Photo: Gordon Shearer.

• HINEMOSS 11, Japanese yacht, spent a short time in Port Moresby in April before leaving for Thursday Island, Darwin and Africa, Hiroshi Hayashi, Teruo Honjo and Mitsuhiro Kunishige left Japan six months ago on the start of an ambitious five-year plan to sail around the world. They hope to sail from Capetown up the coast of America, across the North Atlantic to Europe, back down and around Cape Horn, up the West Coast of America and finally back across the Pacific to Japan. Hinemoss II is designed after Eric Hiscock’s Wan derer HI, although a little shorter and with more beam. She’s carvel con struction, and beautifully fitted out for the trip. The boys don’t plan to go hungry—they have 1,500 tins of food on board, as well as 150 lb each of rice and flour. • Port Moresby yachties also said goodbye to gaff-rigged cutter SPIRIT OF BARB ARY, owned and skippered by Jock and Bern Watt, which set out in late April to sail round to Rabaul. Jock and Bern were hoping the weather would allow them a look at the Louisiard Archipelago on the way. • Lying at Port Moresby, waiting for enough wind, enough money, or both, in May, were: KORONG, ferro-cement ketch from Southport; M A LULU, steel sloop from Sydney; SHI BUI, ferro-cement New Zealand sloop; FLAMINGO, sloop from NZ. • New Zealanders John and David Glennie, who, as PIM reported in April, had sold their 35 ft lodestar design trimaran and gone to Brisbane

to build two more tris —one each — are back in Sydney. They didn’t like Brisbane. They’ve had some good offers of places in Sydney where they can build. But, they’re changing their minds about tris and will probably build cats. John told PIM: “Lock Crowther, the multi-hull designer, is building a 45 ft cat of fibreglass sand wich construction, using a plug and mould. I think we’ll build to Lock’s design. It’ll be bigger than the tri 1 planned and with four cabins could be used as a charter craft. This way, I wouldn’t have to work”. John added that he and his brother had been joined by six other would-be cat builders, all eager to build off Lock’s mould. It will be about two years before John can hope to sail again in his own craft unless, as he said, “I can find a rich woman”. • JOSHUA S, yacht, is in Nou mea after a leisurely cruise from Vila, calling at Uvea, in the Loyalties, and the east coast of New Caledonia. On board on arrival were owner Gavin Marks, wife Diane and baby Gavin, with original crew member Bill Kittle.

Four friends from Vila, Ron Smith, Gilles Gatinie, Rawyn Brookes and Gillian Benson, came for the trip.

Joshua S is a replica of Slocum’s SPRAY, and was built in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, in 1964, by Canadian Gordon Grady. After leav ing NZ in May, 1970, Joshua S spent six months in Fiji, where baby Gavin was born, and six months in the New Hebrides. Plans are to spend several months in Noumea. • KAHOLO KAI, 37 ft trimiran with Richard Corder, Ken Rasura and Ingrid Cruz on board, arrived at

Rarotonga late in April and left soon after. The two men met in Hawaii where Mr. Corder, a South Califor nian, has been living for the last five years as an escapee from the “rat race”. They sailed their sloop-rigged Kaholo Kai from Honolulu to Tahiti where they were joined by Miss Cruz for the trip to Rarotonga. Mr. Corder and Mr. Rasura planned to visit other islands in the Cooks and then sail to Samoa, Fiji and the New Hebrides.

Mr. Corder has a job waiting for him in the condominium. • HONNALEE, a 37 ft yacht, custom built in Vancouver, Canada, was in Rarotonga in April with Cana dians Roy and Rika Gingell on board.

Crew includes a 16 lb cat, Brutus.

Honnalee started a global cruise in 1968, since when she has been to Alaska, the US mainland, Mexico and French Polynesia, She is a diesel powered fibreglass spencer ketch de signed by the Gingells to be “as much like home as possible”. Samoa and Tonga are next on the list and the Gingells hope to spend Christmas in Fiji. • PURUWAI, 28 ft sloop, Matangi type with Perkins 4107 motor, arrived in Nukualofa from Tauranga, NZ May 5. Owner-skipper Brian Hall and crew Ross Whiteman, Jim Cleghom, Les Caitheon, Barry Miln, Richard Hill and Stephen Western. Puruwai is seven years old, built in Tauranga, and though she has cruised NZ waters this is her first overseas trip. Three days out from Tauranga she struck a two-day storm when a large wave damaged some decking. Brian Hall has crewed in LADY STIRLING and BOUNTY on overseas trips. Com menting on facilities for yachtsmen in Tonga, he said the fact that no water was laid on at the yacht anchorage at Faua was a distinct dis

The "Westward", Hawaii's Oceanic Foundation's schooner at Rarotonga.

Aboard her are six marine biologists and archaeologists who are studying the effect of the depredations of the crown of thorns starfish on the reefs.

"JOSHUA S" tied up at Vila for the hurricane season. She's just moved off to Noumea.

advantage, as water was normally available in most islands. • LUALAN, 36 ft gaff-rigged ketch with skipper Jack Hardy, wife Francis and sons Robert, 14, and David, 13, arrived Nukualofa May 8 from Whangarei, where they spent the hurricane season and the boys went to school. The normal eight-day trip took 16 days as they were struck by the same storm experienced by Puruwai and were battered for five days. They lost their outboard motor, dinghy and the storm plate was broken. Last year they spent five months in Vavau where they experienced no problems, allthough other visitors were not so fortunate. Lualan was to sail May 16 for Ha’apai and Vavau, and then home to Hawaii via Pago Pago. • MAGGIE MAY, 30 ft British fibreglass ketch with Perkins diesel 38 hp motor, arrived Nukualofa from Rarotonga on May 18, with skipper Simon Holmes-a-Court and crewman Ron Wink. Run from Rarotonga took 25 days; they were becalmed six days, then experienced every wind but the required SE trades. Maggie May left Southampton in October, 1969, following the usual route via Panama to the Pacific. Spent six months in Curacao, three in Gala pagos and one month in Tahiti. They have been making a movie film of the voyage. They’re headed for Fiji, where they intend staying for several months to do their first underwater

photography.

• BEACHCOMBER, which left Germany last July on a world trip, was lost between Panama and the Marquesas when rammed by a whale in early April. The three Germans aboard escaped in a 7 ft dinghy and a rubber life raft. After 24 days and a drift of about 700 miles they were picked up by the Russian line Shota Rustaveli, about 350 miles off the Marquesas, and taken to Balboa, Panama, in early May. Erich Neid hart, 41, Wolfgang Stoetling, 30, and Ziegfried Schweighoefer, 31, said they survived by eating oatmeal, black bread and prunes. They fended off a shark attack with a screwdriver and a paddle. The trio estimated they each lost 35 lb in weight. • KIYU, 33 ft Bermuda-rigged cutter, was believed to have foun dered in Bass Strait recently, with her three crew missing. They were all Sydney men. An upturned dinghy was found 45 miles north-east of Flinders Island, in early May. Ships and planes in the area have been alerted to watch out for Kiyu.