Cruising

Yachts

Port Moresby has had its share of single-handers lately. First to arrive was Spaniard Julio, in his tiny fibre glass sloop MISTRAL. Julio has sailed alone from Spain and has visited many Pacific territories. He tells of sailing from Fiji to within sight of the New Zealand coast before being forced by headwinds to go all the way back to Fiji! • MO ALA, 32 ft Maurice Grif fiths “Sequel” design timber ketch was the next boat in, with owner Graham Tait from Melbourne sailing alone. Moala’s travels have taken her from Melbourne to NZ and New Caledonia before Port Moresby, The third single-hander was Dr.

Earl Hansen from San Francisco, in his Japanese-built 30 ft ketch, MEI MARU. Mei Maru is a Hereschoff 28, extended two feet. Earl has been sailing and practising medicine through the Pacific since leaving San Francisco. He spent the last :yclone season having a re-fit in Whangarei, NZ, before going to New Caledonia and Port Moresby. Earl las accepted a job for a while at he Kavieng Hospital on New Ireland >o he will be swallowing the anchor 'or a few months. • SEA WITCH, 34 ft American ;affketch last reported leaving Port Moresby for Africa, ran aground on i mudbank after going off course md missing Bramble Cay. In at empting to anchor in heavy weather md shoal ground, owner Jeff Bruce iroke a wrist and co-owner Michele Rogers almost lost a thumb when he winch gear broke. Sea Witch aanaged to sail in behind Kiwai sland, where she was found and 3wed back to Dam by an Admin rtration workboat. • OPHELIE, 39 ft French steel etch, spent some time in Port loresby in July. Ophelie is very milar in design to Bernard loitessier’s POSHUA, and was built i the same French yard. Owners ves and Elizabethe Jonville, with mr-year-old daughter Elodie, spent )me time working in Tahiti before omg to NZ and then to Port loresby. Ophelie, Mistral, Moala ad KATHENA 11, German steel oop, left Port Moresby in com any early in July, on their way to

Africa. Latest news was their arrival together at Thursday Island. • MALULU, 36 ft steel sloop from Sydney, left Port Moresby at the beginning of August for Thursday Island, Darwin and Indonesia, Owners Peter and Maggie Dawson have a six-week visa to cruise through Indonesian waters before going on to Durban. a rr..; c ;r.nr of.mi • D .

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• SANTANA, 55 ft yawl, arrived in Rarotonga on July 26 from Tahiti, Moorea and Bora Bora. On board were captam-owner Charles Peet, his wife Margaret, and crew members Jim Leech and Max rricnot. Santana left San Francisco last January on a two-year circumnavigation and calls were made in Mexico, the Galapagos Islands and Pitcairn, After leaving Pitcairn Santana was severely battered by a hurricane and put in at Mangareva about 100 miles from the French nuclear testing site at Mururoa Atoll for repairs. The French allowed them to stay eight days, then Santana left for Tahiti and other Sodety Islands. From Rarotonga, Mr. reel plans to call at Samoa,

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25 ft gaff-rigged cutter, entirely hand-built in the Grenadines, West Indies, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on July 25. On board was spent* l^ I Tear^ I sai ! itoe nl ta "the Mediterranean, Atlantic, West Indian waters and the Pacific. German bo.rn K . laus expects to call next at Aitutaki and Tonga. • ROULETTE, 35 ft trimaran, was due to leave Suva in late Aug- U st for “islands north” after nine months cruising in the area. The skipper is Lawson Burrows, a a * • MAN TA, 38 ft tn. from Japan, arriv ed in Fiji early in July. Skip per E ‘ Sullivan and one crew, Akira ? ano > said they would be cruising m tlle area f° r three months before movin g on to New Zealand,

• Lady Sterling, 50 Ft

schooner skippered by George Kel sail, was due to leave Fiji in July- August to cruise to Western Samoa and the Cooks, before completing the return journey to New Zealand.

Lady Sterling lost one crew mem ber, Chris Scott, who got married in Suva. (See photo, p. 85.) Other yachts preparing in August to leave Suva were BLUEBIRD OF THORNE, a 50 ft twin-keel ketch, which will go to Auckland via Vila and Noumea and then be shipped by owner-skipper Lord Riverdale to the UK; JELLICLE 11, 25 ft folk boat (skipper Mike Bailes), going to New Hebrides, Torres Strait, Bar rier Reef and Sydney; ACHENAR, 46 ft sloop with brothers Athol and Mike Simpson, Andy Barrett, Brian Nagel and Noel Harris, and AUX CABLE, 33 ft tri. going to Tau

ranga, NZ, with skipper Richard D.

Brown and crew Dan Barca and Terry Bailey. • BLUEWATER, 29i ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on July 29 from Tahiti and Bora Bora with Mr. David Harrington and his wife, Tuni, on board. Their voyage start ed from Seattle, Washington, a year ago and after leaving the west coast of Mexico they called in at the Marquesas Islands. Bluewater ran into a gale that lasted a week after leaving Tahiti. The Harringtons plan to visit Tonga and then to settle in New Zealand.

• FAI SIN , which was still at Papeete on August 8 but preparing for a sail round Tahiti, has a new crew, owner-skipper Ted Harmer writes. With the exception of Kevin Kirk, engineer, and himself, the new crew is Norman Knudsen, mate, from Louisiana and Honduras, Dr. Steve Rubey, ship’s surgeon, Becky Rubey, stewardess and Gloria Moore, cook.

The Rubeys are from Seattle, Washington, and Gloria from Bay Islands of Honduras, Papeete was crowded at the beginning of August, Ted Harmer said. Other ships there at the time included FARAWAY with John Williams, 32, and mother Helen Porter Williams, of San Diego, en route to New Zealand via the Cooks, Tonga and Fiji; LUSTY 1, a 508 schooner crewed by co-owners Mike Williams (navigator), Peter Segsworth (captain), Terry Anderson.

Brent Harrison and Nick Stemm, with John Hunter as additional crew, all from Seattle and on their way to NZ via Tonga and Fiji; WHITE SQUALL, 70 ft schooner with Ross and Minine Norgrove; TROLLOP, 42 ft tri. with Thomas Sidenfaden; ALPHA OMEGA, from the Virgin Islands with Rene and Karen Con cord; SPENCERIAN, 43 ft yacht with Dr. Don and Cassy Boots and three sons from California; HADAR, 36 ft 6 in. sloop with B. D. de Hollander, from Auckland; VAGA BUNDO, yacht with Gale L. Graves, from Huntington Park, California;

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Honolulu with John Busby, wife and two daughters; QUEEN OF SHEBA, newly-built 72 ft schooner with Bill Rudolph and wife Shirley, on South Pacific cruise after three years chartering in St. Thomas. • NANUQ, 34 ft Canadian ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from the Society Islands on July 17 with Maurice and Katy Cloughley on board. Their round-the-world cruise started from England in August, 1969, and they spent a year in the Mediterranean visiting the Greek Islands, Sicily, Balearic Islands, Spain, Gibraltar, Morocco, Canary Islands, Senegal and Cape Verde Islands. They called at Barbados and the Grenadas, Venezuela and Cura coa. Pacific ports of call included the Galapagos, Marquesas and Society Islands before arrival in the Cooks.

Plans are to visit Aitutaki, Niue, Tonga and Fiji on their voyage to New Zealand where they intend to stay about six months. Mr.

Cloughley is a school teacher by profession, a New Zealander by birth and a world wanderer by inclination.

He once taught Eskimo children in the world’s most northerly class room—in the Arctic.