Cruising

Yachts

• HUMMING BIRD 11, a 40 ft, hard chine, plywood ketch from the West Indies, is presently in Port Moresby. On board are Harold La Borde, his wife Kwailan and son Pierre, aged 7. They will be leaving Port Moresby in mid-May for Indo nesia, South Africa then home to Trinidad. Kwailan has recently been to Toronto with second son, Andre aged 2, to leave him with her father while they are on their trip. • KAREELAH, from Brisbane is a 35 ft, Nicol design Wanderer tri maran. Gus Trouchet and his wife Carol are on board. They left Port Moresby on Good Friday heading for Samarai, Rabaul, Kieta then back to Samarai and on to Brisbane. • Mike Bailes’ 25 ft modified Folkboat, JELLICLE 11 from Eng land is presently at Madang after having quite an enjoyable sail from Port Moresby. Mike reports he had so little wind that he accepted a tow for the last 100 miles. • An American yacht SANTANA with Marty and Charles Peet and three crew was in Port Moresby for a short while. Also the South African yacht STORMY visited Port Moresby for a time. • Dr. Joergen Meyer, who is single-handing around the world in his 34 ft fibreglass sloop PALOMA from Germany was in Port Moresby for a short time before continuing with his voyage. His next planned stop is home in Germany. • JINDIVIK a 33 ft Crowther design Tempest trimaran from Townsville has just arrived in Port Moresby for the sailing season. Don McGrath, the owner, is looking for ward to some lively racing. • Other cruising yachts presently in Port Moresby are: FLOATING ROCK a 38 ft ferro cement sloop from Sydney with Manfred Zenacke, VALAURANNE a 35 ft Piver design trimaran from Mackay with Ray and Val Goldston and family, GETULA a Daydream class yacht from Bris bane with Norm and Amy Saunders

and son, CEBELE a 36 ft Nicol de sign Cavalier trimaran from Mackay with Marlin and Judy Krynen and family, KARIE-L a Tahiti ketch from Sydney with Len May and Lindsey Rogers, NIA-ROO a 29 ft home de sign trimaran sloop from Mooloolaba with Graham and Noela Byrnes, and ALVIS a traditional sloop from Sydney with Jim Fominas. • SUNSET SUE, 36 ft ketch, registered at Coconut Grove, Florida, arrived at Rarotonga on March 29 with skipper-owner A 1 Crocker, his wife Nancy, and daughter Sue on board. Sunset Sue had come from Suva and Pago Pago and the Crockers intended to stay a week at Rarotonga before sailing on to Tahiti. • BAVARIA, 47 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti and the Society Islands on March 31. On board were the German - born brothers Josef and Ambros Meyr, Wolfgang Liesens and Francois Dovat. The Meyr brothers built the Bavaria in Santa Barbara, California, and started their cruise from the US in July last year. Calls were made at Hawaii, Tahiti and the Society Islands before reaching Rarotonga. After a fortnight’s stay at Rarotonga plans were to visit Samoa, Fiji and Aus tralia. • WHISTLER, 42 ft schooner, also arrived at Rarotonga on March 31 from Tahiti and French Polynesia, Whistler hails from Oxnard, Cali fornia, and on board were Patrick O’Leary, insurance broker, and Lila Finn and Polly Burson, both of whom, until recently were pro fessional stuntwomen in the movie industry. Whistler left the US in June last year and called at Hawaii and Christmas Island before reaching Tahiti. From Rarotonga plans are to sail to New Zealand. • LEMMING, a 28 ft ketch sailed single-handed by Leslie Hamilton, which left Vila last October for Port Moresby, had not arrived in New Guinea by the end of February and a search was being made for her. At the time of writing, there had been no news although a search was made along the eastern Papua coast and Bougainville where Hamilton might have pulled in during bad weather.

Lemming had no radio. Hamilton’s nationality is unknown. • SAU-SEA, 26 ft Cheoy Lee built Frisco Flyer, docked at Kwa jalein Island on March 23. Mr.

Mason Meeks had been on a 38-day trip from Honolulu. Plagued by light winds for the first part of the voyage, Sau-sea put in at Johnston

Island after making only 750 miles in three weeks. There, Mrs. Meeks and son, Michael, debarked and flew back to Honolulu. They will shortly join Mr. Meeks, an engineer, at Kwajalein. • TEK-SOS, a 40 ft steel sloop, originally from Europe, was in Sydney in April fitting out for a voyage north through the Islands.

Owner-skipper Barry Hobart was recruiting crew and intended a halt in Fiji and other Island territories before setting sail for Europe and home.

"Seaspray' Has

Another Adventure

The 83 ft schooner Seaspray, which is used to ferry tourists from Lautoka in Fiji to the offshore Castaway Island resort, ran aground on a reef near Naviti Island in the Malolo Group on April 9.

Nearly 50 passengers, who were in no immediate danger, were taken off by small boats from the Beachcomber Resort at Tai Island, about two miles from the reef, and taken to the Beachcomber Cruises vessel Negera which was standing by. They were then taken to Lautoka.

Twenty-two hours later, Seaspray was towed off the reef by two Marine

Department tugs and taken to Lautoka for a close inspection which revealed only slight damage to the hull which was not breached.

Seaspray was on her way to Lautoka from Castaway Island when she was stranded. She is one of the

best-known schooners in the world, having appeared on millions of tele vision screens in the series Adventures of the Seas pray.

Before her renaming for the television series, she was the Fitheach Ban.

The "Seaspray" on the reef.