Cruising

Yachts

• DRIFTWOOD, a 27 ft cutter with Ray Dark and Margaret Orr on board, arrived in Gizo, in the Solo mons towards the end of May on a voyage from Queensland. Their next destination is Bougainville and they hope to work at Kieta. • RENDEZVOUS, a yacht once owned by Allen Lucas, is now at Kieta. • KARLOO, 30 ft Waterwitch class sloop with owners Geoffrey and Ruth Goodman on board sailed into Nukualofa on May 17 from Whangarei, NZ. Originally from Mel bourne, Australia, the Goodmans cruised for 18 months off the Queens land coast and spent six months on New Zealand’s northeast coast.

Geoffrey and Ruth recommend yachts men to make a call at Lord Howe Island. They fell for the place in 1969 when they spent five weeks there on their way north, and then wiled

away another four weeks on the island last November when on their way to New Zealand. • ROSIN A 1, 5 ton sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tauranga, New Zealand on May 7 and left on May 13 for Aitutaki and Palmerston Islands. If the weather proved favour able, plans were to sail to Niue; if unfavourable to carry on to Tonga.

The yacht is skippered by New Zealander Peter Luxmore and he has a mixed crew of New Zealanders and Englishmen. They are M. I. Knapton, P. B. Crispin and D. M. Jones— all Englishmen and L. S. Ormandy, I. A. Strachan and D. E. Kent, all Kiwis. • SEA LION, 28 ft gaff-rigged cutter with skipper-owner William R.

Corry and his four-year-old daughter Briefn, on board, left Rarotonga for Suva, on May 12. Mr. Corry is a US citizen. His previous Pacific ports of call were the Marquesas and Tuamotus Islands and Tahiti. • CHALLENGE, a black-hulled sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on May 11, sailed single-handed by Henri Cordovero, who had previously visited Noumea and Tahiti. The yacht is registered at Toulon, France.

Challenge’s next port of call is Noumea. • EOLO, 55 ft cutter, arrived at Rarotonga from the Bay of Islands, NZ, May 14 with W. M. and Shirley Sanders, Nancy Sanders, Paul and Ruth Winter. John Berdahl and Bronwyn Webb on board. Miss Webb had travelled to Rarotonga to visit her family there. Eolo planned to stay a week at Rarotonga then visit Papeete, the Tuamotus and Marquesas Islands before returning to Hawaii.

Last year the yacht visited Rarotonga in October during a voyage of the South Pacific that started in Hawaii and took in the Society Islands, Aitutaki, Rarotonga, Tonga and New Zealand. Eolo’s crew spent six months in New Zealand. • HADAR, 37 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on May 13 with skipper B. D. den Hollander and Arthur G. Franklin on board.

During the voyage they were hove to for three days during a storm and also had engine trouble. Plans were to visit Aitutaki, Mauke, the northern Cooks, Tahiti, Hawaii and the United States. • ELHARI, a black-hulled cutter, arrived at Rarotonga in mid-May from Hawaii and Penrhyn with skipper-owner Graham Hallen and Penrhyn Islanders Bob Makera and Tekera Andrew on board. Mr. Hallen planned to stay at least a month in Rarotonga and to apply for a work permit. Elhari visited Rarotonga in July last year from Whangarei, NZ, then left for Hawaii via Suwarrow and Penrhyn Islands. • WINDSONG, 32 ft Woolacott cutter from New Zealand, left Port Moresby in June for South Africa.

Owners Steve and Karen Zador, and baby son Zolan, plan to spend a month in Bali on their way. • SPIRIT OF BARB ARY, a 28 ft gaff cutter from San Diego via New Zealand, which left Port Moresby re cently on her way to Rabaul, reports very favourably on the slipping facili ties at Samarai. Owners Jock and Bern Watt say the slips are good and prices very reasonable, and they’re en chanted with the beauty of the Milne Bay area. • WANTOK, with Martin Mitchell, 25-year-old English single-hander on board, arrived in Port Moresby re cently. Martin took two years of spare time to build his 28 ft sloop in Mount Hagen in the New Guinea Western

Highlands. He says her most hazard ous journey so far was her first— by truck down the mountainous un sealed Highlands Highway to Lae. where she was launched. Wantok then sailed to Kieta on Bougainville for final fitting-out, before coming to Port Moresby. When she left early in June for Java, the Seychelles, Mada gascar and Port Elizabeth, she was proudly flying the new red and black Papua New Guinea flag—perhaps the first yacht to do so. • UNBOUND, 36 ft Hedley Nicol trimaran from Sydney, arrived in Port Moresby early in June. Owner John Murray has had an event ful trip since leaving Sydney in May, 1969. Sailing to Tagula Island in the Milne Bay District from Cairns, he was set onto a reef, and limped in to Dumaga Bay with a hole 20 ft by 5 ft in his main hull. It took him three months to repair his tri with material shipped out from Samarai.

Then he left for Bougainville. After 18 months in Kieta John sailed through the Solomons back to Samarai and Port Moresby. He leaves shortly for Darwin across the Indian Ocean to Durban. • LAHEDO, a Brisbane-built tri maran, was a newcomer to Port Moresby in June. She’s an Islander class Hedley Nicol design and was sailed up from Townsville by owner Noel Tolson and crew Dave Toll man and Don McGrath. Noel’s new job will take him to Kavieng in New Ireland, so Lahedo is now up for sale.

Also in Port Moresby towards June’s end were KORO N G ,

P Avan A, Lahara, Karie-L,

Malulu And Flamingo.

• GIT AN A, a 36 ft yawl belong ing to Bill and Anita Lambie, and son Louis, is now in Honolulu for an extended stay. A new crew mem mer, Richard, joined the Lambies there last August. Before dropping anchor at Honolulu, the Lambies visited Mexico, where Louis was born, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Bora Bora and the Cook Islands during 1968-69.

Present plans are to accumulate cruising funds, perhaps build a bigger boat and then return to the South Pacific. • NOMAD, a streamlined trimaran with owner Jack Ford and crew Sam Buell, Della Garza and Kathy Cook on board, completed a voyage from Maui in Hawaii on June 15 by grounding on a reef off Mulinuu Point in Western Samoa. After several attempts were made in rough seas to pull her off, Nomad floated off at high tide and was towed with badly- Jamaged hull to Matautu. She was later slipped. While repairs are being

made, Jack Ford and his crew are staying with Colin Coverdale, British Petroleum’s local manager. • FINISTERRE, 75 ft ketch, left Sydney on June 17 for a Pacific cruise, covering Noumea and Fiji. On board are Mrs. June Kluckhohn, her son Richard, 5, and a crew of five, including a Fijian named Sam. In Fiji parts of the Finisterre will be renovated, during which time Mrs.

Kluckhohn will fly to the US for business relating to her husband’s estate. She will then return to the ketch in Fiji and continue her tour.

Her husband, Frank Kluckhohn, who was killed in a car crash in the United

States last October, was an author and war correspondent.

UNDINE, a trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on June 1 with owners Karl Redell and his wife on board. Their voyage began from San Francisco in November, 1969.

After sailing down the Mexican coast, they visited the Galapagos Islands, staying there five months, and then called at the Marquesas and Tuamotus before putting Undine into dry dock in Tahiti for three months while they toured New Zealand by motor cycle. They now hope to put in at Aitutaki, Suwarrow. Tonga and Fiji.