Cruising
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Yachts
• UNDINE, trimaran, is beached on Ogea Island, Lau, Fiji, after hit ting the reef off the island about mid night on October 14. On board were owner, Karl Redell and his wife Rebecca. They were on their way to Suva from Tonga. They are from California and had planned to be away from home for five years. Mr.
Redell is hoping to repair the Undine so that he can sail her to Suva for repairs. The port and main hulls were badly damaged.
O VLAAG, 19 ft sloop, sailed by lone Dutchman, Ivo van Laake, 24, will wait in Fiji for the end of the hurricane season next April before ending a world cruise. He left San Francisco about three years ago and has taken his time, calling at Hono lulu and Tahiti. He is not sure of his movements after Fiji—he is sailing at leisure, and enjoys sailing alone. • KARLOO, 30 ft Waterwitch class sloop from Melbourne, with owners Geoffrey and Ruth Goodman aboard, spent two months cruising in Tonga before arriving at Suva, Fiji, in July. Since then they have circumnavigated Viti Levu and Ovalau, and planned a visit to Kadavu before leaving from Suva for New Zealand towards the end of November. ® VICKI LYNN, 36 ft trimaran which left Rarotonga in mid-October for Fiji and New Zealand with Canadians Ernie and Lee Crampton on board, returned to Rarotonga a week later for repairs. The steering cable broke when the yacht was 250 miles west of Rarotonga and Mr.
Crampton sailed the jury-rigged vessel back in 3\ days. He said that this was the first time they had ever had to turn back in almost 12,000 miles of cruising. ® ANDANTE, 34 ft American yacht, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora and Honolulu on October 30. On board were Mrs. Martha Campbell, her son, lan, Jim Doughty and Jim La Pierre. Calls were also made at Tahiti and Moorea. Plans were to visit New Zealand for four months then sail to Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Australia, South Africa and the Mediterranean.
• BOUNTY, yacht, spent the weekend October 30-31 at Samarai, Papua, and Lance H. Wilkinson, of Samarai, told PIM he had the pleasure of piloting the Bounty around the neighbouring islands fish ing and taking on water at Kana Kopi. Bounty left for Cairns in Queensland in November. “If they enjoyed Samarai as much as I en joyed their company and hospitality it should be a good boost for Samarai in cruise yacht circles,” wrote Lance Wilkinson. • BLANQUITA, yacht with Bob Amos as owner-skipper, is on the way to Japan and hopes to drop anchor there next April. Blanquita spent almost a year in Fiji and, with Colin Burgess, of NZ, and Prakash Lachan, of Fiji, as crew, is making for Japan via Santa Cruz, New Hebrides, Solomons, Carolines, Marianas, and Bonins. • SEA WYF I, yacht (Hans and Ruth Sachse), well known to all cruise yachtees in the South Seas, has given place to SEA WYF 11, which the Sachses have built in nine months of hard work at Newport Beach, California. Sea Wyf // is a 32 ft double-ended sailing craft (Atkin design) with fibreglass hull and decks and interior of teak. She has a 22 hp Albin diesel engine and a cruising range of 700 miles. • SHAULA, 40 ft yawl, arrived at Rarotonga from the Tuamotus and Tahiti on November 13 with a family from Seattle, USA, on board. They were Gordon and Dorothy Crawford and their three daughters Nina, 11, Jada, nine, and Kelly aged seven.
Travelling with them were Sidney and Claudine Jordan who left the yacht at Rarotonga. Shaula was built in Vancouver, Canada, and the Craw fords’ voyage has taken them to Mexico, Honolulu and the French Society Islands. After re-provisioning at Rarotonga, they plan to sail to Fiji and New Zealand. 9 LUANE, of San Francisco, 28 ft by 8 ft by 5i ft cutter, arrived at Whangaroa, NZ, on October 21 from Nukualofa via the South Minerva Reef area. This yacht was built in Sweden in 1946 and later shipped to San Francisco where she cruised coastwise under other ownership.
Now manned by two young engineers, Topper Hermanson and Garry Whipp, the yacht cleared San Francisco in May, 1970, on the present voyage.
After cruising the Hawaiian Islands and working there for a year, the crew signed on a PanAm stewardess, Miss Elizabeth Robinson, for the passage to Papeete direct.