Cruising

Yachts

• PEYOTE, one of the best-known cruising yachts in the world, went to her grave in 30 ft of water when she struck a reef north of Noumea in August. She was cruising with new owner Mr. Michael Avery, of Cali fornia, when she ran on the reef. Built in 1924 for Mr. Chris Ratsey, sail maker to King George V and named HARRIER, she was described by Uffa Fox, yachting friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, as the ideal cruising yacht. One of her features was a hol low mast, tapered top and bottom, which was made from a spar off the Royal yacht BRITANNIA. Mr. and Mrs. Colin Edwards sailed Peyote from England, arriving in Whangarei in August last year. She was sold to Mr. Avery, who sailed her from NZ in May. • ACHENAR, 46 ft fin-keeler, with Mike and Athol Simpson and Andy Barrett, left Suva on August 12 for Auckland after two months in Fiji. • DEMASIADO, 39 ft yawl (Cheoy Lee Offshore 40), registered in San Francisco, sailed from Fiji on August 12 for Pago Pago, Apia and Hawaii, after a month’s stay. Skipper Robert McGrath missed the boat— literally. He was taken to hospital in Suva a couple of days before de parture with appendicitis. He planned to recuperate briefly and join crew Ron Bess, Robert Brubaker and Jerry Evans in Samoa.

• Austral Vertue, 25 Ft

Laurence Giles Vertue class from Melbourne, left Fiji in mid-August, sailed single-handed by Mick McKeon.

She was headed for the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. • JAHAM A, 35 ft sloop from Japan, was cruising in Fiji waters in August-September with skipper Jack Ross and Norio Ota, before moving on to the New Hebrides.

Hog Harbour, Santo, has acted as host to several cruise yachts over the last couple of months. One visitor, on a brief three-day stay was the 38 ft Bill Atkins-designed ketch RIGA DOON, which dropped anchor on August 18 with owners Carl and Jean Moesly on board. Her ports of call after leaving HH were Banks, Torres,

Santa Cruz, Santa Anna and Honiara.

Another caller on the same day was LAURABADA, a 48 ft ketch with owner Ivan Holm and four crewmen.

Coming from Brisbane and Vila, she stayed two days at Hog Harbour before setting sail for Honiara. Later, came KUAKOA, a 48 ft tri, with Jim and Shirley Stewart and their five children. They arrived in Hog Har bour on August 29 from their home in Santo and planned to sail in a week’s time to Santa Anna, Santa Cruz and Honiara. • HAWAIKI, 48 ft auxiliary ketch from Wellington, was due to leave Fiji at the end of August for the New Hebrides. Aboard were skip per lan Carran, wife June, and crew, Gerald Hunter, Denis Bassett and Alan Grams. • WILD LONE, 33 ft stiletto tri from Auckland, with Fay and Rich ard Stephens aboard, has been at Suva since late July and was due to head for the New Hebrides at Sep tember’s end. • ANDROMEDA, 42 ft cross tri from San Diego, with skipper H.

Tiemroth and crew of five, left Fiji in late August after a two months’ stay. Mr. Tiemroth was heading back Honolulu way. • ONDINE, 83 ft American racing ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on Aug ust 13 from Bora Bora. On board were owner Henry Lang, master Nick Hilton, plus six guests, Martin Kim mel, Alfonso Simon Jnr., John Rahr, Donna Fuller, Virginia Mack and Barbara Birch, and crew, Lou Lette way, John Pigett, Ken Gardener, Gordon Barienbrock and David Irons.

Ondine left Rarotonga two days later for Tonga and Fiji and plans were for the ketch to compete in the Syd ney to Hobart race at the end of this year. • HUMMINGBIRD 11, yacht, left Honiara on August 28 for the Short land Islands, Kieta and Port Moresby.

On board are owner, Harold La Borde, his wife, Kwailan and two children. The yacht was reported missing after having left Vila on July 6 for Port Moresby, and the PNG marine operations division of the De partment of Transport instituted a radio search with messages broadcast op small ship and overseas frequen cies. An air search was to be launched when it was learned in Port Moresby that Hummingbird II was safe. She had sailed for Honiara instead of Port Moresby. • TORTUGA, 35 ft trimaran, has arrived in Suva from Seattle, via Hawaii and Pago Pago. On board

were the owner, Mr. John Casanova, his daughter Susan, 18, and a young Canadian seaman. Mrs. Casanova, who had sailed in the Tortuga as far as Pago Pago, flew to Fiji from there.

The Tortuga’s mast and rigging were weakened by bad weather.

O BARUNA, 69 ft yawl, arrived in Suva on August 28 from Honolulu.

Inside Suva Harbour, while on her way to moor outside the Tradewinds Hotel, she went aground on a reef near Mosquito Island and remained there till winched off at high tide that night. She was undamaged. The owner, Mr. John Mclntire, and his brother, James, intended later to sail to Soqulu plantation, Taveuni.

• UNDINE, a trimaran flying the American flag, SUKA, a Bermudan 28 ft cutter flying the Union flag, and STORMY, a 52 ft ketch flying the Netherlands flag, were all berthed to gether in Pago Pago Harbour during the second week in September.

Undine, owned by Karl Redell, of Lamark, Illinois, was built in San Francisco. Redell and his wife Rebecca sailed from San Francisco on November 9, 1969, and have visited Mexico, Ecuador and French Poly nesia. Suka, which was built in Essex, England, was sailed from Southamp ton by owner Frank Dodson. Stormy, captained by John Hutchinson and owned by C. Bruynzeel, of Saandam.

Holland, was built in Hamburg.

• SUZIE 11, 36 ft Swedish sloop, arnved at Rarotonga on August 23 from Tahiti. Raiatea and Bora Bora with Ulf Petersen and his dog Suzie on board. She left Stockholm in 1968 and calls were made in Germany, France, England, Spam, Portugal and the Caribbean Islands before entering the Pacific. After Rarotonga, Mr.

Petersen intends to visit Tonga. „ ~r r7lrT, F , , , • MANUITI, 34 ft ketch, berthed at Rarotonga from Auckland on August 23 with Jack and Audrey Weller and their daughter Adrienne on board.

It took Mr Weller five years to build me ketch before setting off on the present world cruise. The Wellers expected to stay three weeks in Rarotonga, then call at Tahiti, the Tuamotus and the Marquesas before gomg to Vancouver, BC. • r A • oUi\DUyVI\LR, 45 ft Austranan s i°up» arrived at Rarotonga on August 20 from Penrhyn bound for Australia from the USA, where she took part in the Trans-Pac. race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. On board were Ron Swanson, designer and builder of Sundowner, Sara Hume, Bob Weir, Pete Ferrarese, Richard lobm, Gloria Smith, Mil Axionoff, Stephen Fletcher, and Akatapuria, a

Penrhyn islander. Akatapuria joined the yacht at Penrhyn and left her at Rarotonga. Plans were to sail to Sydney with calls at Tonga, Fiji and New Caledonia. • RAIPOIA, an 87-year-old gaffrigged ketch, berthed at Rarotonga from Tahiti on August 31. On board were owner Bernard Guilbert, master Lou Blake and crew Tom Sidenforden, A 1 Chapman, Mary Stoliski, Bo Corey, Lynne Leifman and Tony and Molley Taylor. The Taylors were returning to Rarotonga after a holiday in Tahiti. The owner, with his American crew, is taking Raipoia to Noumea where he plans to use the vessel for charter work and underwater diving. • WHITE BIRD, a 40 ft trimaran, e , n route to New Zealand from Penrhyn and Honolulu, dropped anchor at Rarotonga on September 1 with Don and Diana Anderson, their two daughters Gallic, 8, Robin, 7, and Bill Lowerison on board. • KAILOA 11, 73 ft American racing ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on September 7 from Raiatea and Tahiti.

On board were skipper Bruce Kendall and six crew, Stuart Williamson,

Peter Allison, Kirk Elliot, Dana Kil roy, Ray Emerson and Bob Kantes Recently Kailoa 11 competed in the Trans-Pac. race and plans are for the yacht to enter the Sydney-Hobart race at the end of the year. After a two-day stay at Rarotonga Kailoa II left for Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand, • LUSTY I, 50 ft schooner, ar rived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on September 8 with skipper Peter Segs worth and five crew on board. Crew were Mike Williams, Nick Stemm John Hunter, Brent Harrison and Terry Handerson. Lusty I left Seattle, Washington, in August, 1970, and Pacific ports of call were the Mar quesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands, Plans are to visit American Samoa, Fiji and Auckland. • MANUIWA, 61 ft schooner from Honolulu arrived in Fiji on August 4 with owner-skipper L.Cdr.

W. Okkerse plus Janice, Warren.

Robert and Kimberley Okkerse, and Jennifer Bambery on board. The plan was to spend four to six months in the Fiji group before moving on to Australia and New Zealand. The schooner is a one-time winner of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Race way back in 1934.

• WHITE SQUALL 11, beautiful 70 ft yacht (80 ft overall), which has been in Tahiti for the last nine months, may head for Samoa soon.

Owner-skipper Ross Norgrove, a blown-away New Zealander who left NZ 11 years ago and has been chartering White Squall in the Carib bean, was weighing the pros and cons of staying or moving on when PIM met him in Moorea in Septem ber. Ross and his wife Minine are the only crew. He says PIM kept him abreast of Pacific yachting move ments during his long stay in the Caribbean (during which he picked up an international accent). Moored almost alongside White Squall in September was the 80 ft (overall) QUEEN OF SHEBA, which also is soon to decide where to head next.

From Seattle, owned by Bill and Shirley Rudolph, with Ric Haws an additional crew member, Queen of Sheba was mentioned in PIM last month. VAGABUNDO, 43 ft yacht from Los Angeles, with Gale and Ann Graves, planned to leave Papeete in September for Tonga and Suva. • YO HO HO, 38 ft Choey Lee built sloop, left Rabaul recently for the Solomons via Nissan and Bou gainville. Single - hander Norman Davidson had spent six weeks in Rabaul after cruising from Honolulu through the American Trust Territory of Micronesia. Yo Ho Ho took line honours in the local club’s annual race to the Duke of York Islands, • ISLANDER HI, a 36 ft cutter from Sydney, was in Rabaul recently en route to Singapore. While there, owner/skipper Mike Hatcher installed a new 14 hp Yanmar diesel and took on a New Zealand crew, Ruth Hob day.

O SANA, 39 ft wishbone ketch from Brisbane, is due to leave Rabaul for an extensive cruise of the Solo mon Islands. Owners Carl and Loys Fristram are looking forward to moving again after an 11-month stay in Rabaul. • WESTWIND, 36 ft steel hulled cutter with single - hander Dave Jagger, has returned to Rabaul after a short cruise of northern New Ireland and New Hanover. • OMICRON, 20 ft New Zealand cutter, arrived in Rabaul recently after cruising the US Trust Territory.

On board was Canadian single-hander Dave Fields. • SPIRIT OF BARB ARY, 27 ft New Zealand gaff-rigged cutter is in Rabaul after a two month cruise

from Port Moresby. Jock and Bernie Watt are gathering funds to continue through Bougainville and the Solo mons. Also in Rabaul to build a cruising fund is 35 ft. Trimaran PETER PAN, from Lae. On board are owners Reg and Wendy Lincoln, with daughters Karen and Debbie, • From Peter and Pat Fenton, CYTHERA, Yacht Haven Marina, St. Thomas, USVI: “It has been a long time since PIM readers have heard from Peter and Pat Fenton, from Cythera. We have been in St.

Thomas for some three years now, have established a very successful engineering business and our daughter, Penny, has been modelling in both New York and San Francisco —she is 18.

“We wish all our friends who are still with PIM, and all who read your magazine, the compliments of the season, hoping that 1972 will be an even bigger and better year, and we do look forward to hearing from any of our friends who care to write, friends throughout the Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and South Africa.

“Our maiden voyage of 1963 has finally sorted itself into major ocean cruising, and although we have dropped anchor in the Playground of the Millionaires—the Caribbean—we still remember how to write letters.” • MAHON MARA, 40 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on September 16 from Tahiti with captain-owner Jimmy Woolf, his wife, Anna, their twin sons Marcus and Magnus, and crewman Bill Comer from Montana, USA, on board.

The Woolfs built the yacht them selves in 19 months and left Glasgow in May last year on a cruise that took them to France, Spain, Portugal, Canary Islands and the West Indies.

Pacific ports of call were the Gala pagos and Marquesas Islands, Tahiti and Moorea. After leaving Raro tonga, the Woolfs intend to sail to New Zealand and stay there about six months. • SPENCERIAN, 46 ft aluminium sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on September 16 with Donald S. Boots, Virginia Boots and David and Donald Boots on board.

Their cruise started two years ago from Santa Barbara, California, and Pacific ports of call included the Galapagos, Easter and Pitcairn Is lands. The family is sailing to Auck land, with calls at Tonga and Fiji. • VIM, 42 ft cutter, arrived at Rarotonga on September 8 from Tahiti with lone-hander Larry Rush on board. Mr. Rush, a retired US

Army officer, took 15 years to build Vim, which he designed. His voyage started from Los Angeles, in August last year and he called at Honolulu before reaching Papeete. After about a fortnight in Rarotonga, he plans to sail to New Zealand to visit his daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren living in Rotorua. • HAN BRI, 32 ft Canadian yacht, arrived at Rarotonga on September 9 with skipper-owner Hans Schmidt and his wife Deborah. Also on board was Mr. Kii Kaitoa, a Cook Islander who joined the yacht at Aitutaki and left it at Rarotonga.

Han Bri left Vancouver in September last year and ports of call were Honolulu and Tahiti before reaching the Cooks. The Schmidts plan to sail to Tonga.

• LUANE, 28 ft Swedish cutter, arrived at Rarotonga on September 9 from Bora Bora and Tahiti. On board were skipper-owner Topper Hermanson, Gary Whipp and Steven Brock. Mr. Hermanson’s cruise started from San Francisco, USA, in May last year and he called at Hawaii before reaching the French Society Islands. He planned to stay a week in Rarotonga and is bound for the Bay of Islands in New Zealand’s North Island. • AUDACIOUS, a South African trimaran, EQUINOX, a German yacht, and FARAWAY, a yacht from San Diego, California, were all in Aitutaki Island’s lagoon in early Sep tember and were expected to visit Rarotonga, the port of entry into the Cook Islands.