Cruising
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Yachts
• Escape From Paradise,
47i ft gaff-rigged cutter, formerly the TALLY HO, left Rarotonga on November 26 for Honolulu with skip per-owner Jim Price and Cook Islander Taua Tua on board. Mr.
Price said he may call at Penrhyn and Christmas islands. American Jim Price has lived in Rarotonga for about 25 years, and he married and raised a family there. With the ex ception of one daughter, his wife and family now live in Honolulu. He plans to join them and sell Escape from Paradise in Hawaii.
Tally Ho was wrecked in August, 1968, while loading copra at Manuae, a small island in the Cook Group.
The yacht had been bought in England by New Zealander Jim Louden who was sailing her to NZ to use her for commercial fishing.
She was towed to Rarotonga by the ex-trawler, HEATHER GEORGE, which had called at Rarotonga during a voyage from England to NZ. The badly-damaged cutter was sold to NZ businessman Mr. “Mattie” Thompson, who had some repairs made, but later abandoned the venture.
Tally Ho was put up for sale by the Cook Islands’ Receiver of Wrecks, and Jim Price and Don Beer bought her. They completed repairs and intended to use her to bring cargoes of frozen fish from the northern Cooks to Rarotonga, but the plan was dropped. Mr. Beer transferred his rights to Jim Price. • SAY ON ARA, 33 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on November 23 with Dick and Iris Bellinger of Seattle, USA, on board.
With them was their cat Mataro (Tahitian for “sailor”). The Bellin gers had spent two years in Honolulu and will spend the hurricane season in Rarotonga. They plan to moor their yacht in Ngatangiia lagoon, the most sheltered spot on Rarotonga during hurricane weather. BAHIA, a visiting 40 ft American yawl, will join them there. Bahia arrived with Lou and Carol Blake on board. She left Los Angeles in February, 1970, and has called at Acapulco in Mexico, Marquesas, Tahiti, Bora Bora and Huahine. • MAURI KOA, a 28 ft sloop, which has been a tropical home for
New Zealanders lan Singleton and his wife Robyn for nearly five years, arrived back in New Zealand early in December. After building Mauri Koa, lan and his wife set sail from their home port of Paremata in February, 1967, and made for New Caledonia. They also dropped anchor in the New Hebrides, the Solomons and New Guinea. They have been in New Guinea for more than two years.
During their months ashore at various stops. Robyn has worked as a secretary and lan as a jack-of-all trades including carpentry and planta tion worker. Some of their time was spent with various tribes in the New Guinea Highlands. Future plans are to build a bigger boat and then set sail again. • LANDSEER 111, a 43 ft yawl from Sydney arrived at Rabaul in November after a six-month cruise of the Great Barrier Reef. On board were owners Don and Robyn Cole man with 18-month-old daughter Aussa. • lONA, 40 ft NZ ketch brought owners Cliff and Fran Bird and daughter Donna, age 5, to Kieta for the cyclone season. Since leaving New Zealand two years ago, lona has cruised to the New Hebrides and the Solomons.
9 Spirit Of Barbary, 27 Ft
NZ gaff-rigged cutter, was the first of four yachts to arrive at Kieta in the same week. She is home for Sandy and Bernie Watt, who have moved to Kieta for the cyclone season after spending four months at Rabaul.
Others in the convoy were
Falcon V, Wa And Destiny.
Falcon V, a 55 ft ferro-cement ketch, had been on a five-month cruise from New Zealand through Fiji, New Hebrides and the Solomons. Built initially for the 1966 Auckland to Suva race, Falcon V has a hull with experimental reinforcing construction.
During the present cruise, owner skipper Neale Shanahan is carrying out durability tests for Marley Sutherland. Also on board are Larry Rayner, Carl Rosieur and Gunther Werner. Wa, a Swedish-built P2B, called in at Kieta en route for Rabaul where she will stay for the cyclone season. Owners Pete and Addie Eastman left Santa Barbara in the United States in January and have made calls at the Marquesas, Penrhyn, the Gilberts, Cooks, Nauru and the Solomons. Destiny, a 30 ft plywood cutter with single-hander Mike Thurston on board, made a brief stop at Kieta on her way to Rabaul after a 15-month cruise
through Micronesia, the GEIC, Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Solomons and Bougainville. • UNDINE, trimaran is now in Suva after having been stranded at Ogea, Lau, since October 1. Owner, Karl Redell, and his wife, Rebecca, helped by local people, patched the main hull before she sailed. Ship wrights will replace the main hull bottom. Mr. Redell said that when the Undine was repaired he and his wife would sail to the New Hebrides.
They are from California and expect to be away from home for about five years. o KARLOO, 30 ft Waterwitch class sloop and owners Geoffrey and Ruth Goodman, 2i years away from Melbourne, arrived in New Zealand from Fiji towards the end of Novem ber, very pleased with their best-yet ocean passage —no winds forward of the beam, and 1,000 miles from Kadavu Island to Whangaroa Har bour covered in 10 days. Now they propose to spend the summer con tacting friends made last season, and discovering more of NZ’s delightful cruising grounds. • THE REBEL, 107 ft three masted, schooner-rigged Baltic trader, arrived at Rarotonga on December 10 from Papeete, bound for Fiji. On board were the owners, Mr. and Mrs.
Alan E. Davis, and captain Roy Jack son. Crew comprised Francis Michaels, Bob Bolton of Fiji. Robert Ebermayer, Bruce Bowyer and Daniel Hagen of the USA and Michael McNeela from England. Travelling as a guest of the owners was Mr.
Chris Bay. The Rebel was bought in Denmark, and a new crew was signed on at Tahiti. The owners plan to charter the vessel in Fiji on one-day cruises for 40 passengers and longer cruises for 12 to 14 people. The holds will be converted into state rooms.