Cruising

Yachts

• BLACK ROSE, 28 ft Auckland yacht, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on August 13 with skipper Clifford Goodhue, his wife Ann and their son David on board. In 1966 the Goodhues entered Black Rose in the Suva yacht race, intending to re turn to New Zealand after the race.

But they changed their minds and since then have almost sailed round the world. They called at Darwin, Indonesian ports and Durban, South Africa, where they worked for nine months. David was born in Capetown, then the family sailed to the West Indies where they spent two years.

Mr Goodhue was manager of a tourist hotel in Bequia for 18 months.

After a fortnight in Rarotonga they planned to call at Niue, Tonga and Fiji, arriving in New Zealand at the end of October. Then they intend to sell Black Rose and build a home. • RESTLESS, 40 ft Auckland sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on August 10 with skipper Tim Beattie, Roger Lawton and Jim Loeb on board. Plans were to spend three weeks in Rarotonga before sailing to Suwarrow, both Samoas, Fiji and home to Auckland. • BEBINKA, 30 ft fibreglass ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on August 13 with skipper owner Scott G. Kuhner and wife Kathleen. Mr Kuhner is a New York stockbroker and his wife worked in an art gallery there. They started their cruise from New York last October with the intention of sailing round the world. Between Panama and the Galapagos a large whale surfaced alongside the ketch and three others appeared nearby. Apparently they had been sleeping and they woke up about five minutes later. When they started to jump out of the sea and splash back again spray cascaded over the yacht. Mr Kuhner was afraid the 30 ft whales might ram and sink them—as had happened to two other yachtsmen in the same vicinity a little earlier.

Plans were to visit Fiji and New Zealand, then Australia before con tinuing round the world. They hope

to return to New York in about three years’ time. • PHYSALIA, an American yacht, left Rarotonga for Pago Pago, American Samoa, on August 12. On board were skipper Stephen J.

Shidler, Laurie Carlson and Roger Leonard. • KUAN YIN, a Canadian yacht from Ontario, arrived at Rarotonga on August 14 from Papeete with Roger Clancy and Sheila Mitchell on board. Pacific ports of call were the Galapagos, Marquesas and Tuamotu Islands. • TAKU TORI, 54 ft powered sloop, left Rarotonga for Tahiti and the West Indies on August 12. Skipper Bruce Berrinman, with his wife, Dawn, and Aucklanders Chris Beckett and Peter White, are sailing the yacht to the West Indies on a delivery voyage. • ANNELIESE, 30 ft ketch rigged catamaran powered by two inboard 16 hp diesels, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti in August. On board were skipper-owner Colin

Swale, his wife, Rosie, and their twoc young children Eve and James Mario.

The voyage started from South ampton in January, 1971 and thein youngest child, James, was born at sea near Italy. From Gibraltar crossed the Atlantic to Barbados and Panama. Pacific ports of call included the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands.; The Swales plan to sail to Tonga and Sydney where the yacht will be re fitted for crossing the southern ocean: to Cape Horn. From the Falkland Islands they will follow the old clipper sailing route to the Canary Islands and hope to be back im England next May or June. • FI A, 40 ft cutter with Swedish! partners Carl Seipel and Hans Bern-i wall on board left Rarotonga on August 10 for Suwarrow, Samoaj Tonga and Fiji. The yacht took maiii and supplies for Tom Neale who lives alone on Suwarrow.

O UNICORN, 30 ft trimaram arrived at Rarotonga in August from Tahiti with skipper-owner Pogolei; Dan and his wife on board. Theiii cruise started from Los Angeles las< year and they called at Panamat Galapagos, Marquesas and Society Islands. Mr Dan built the tri himsellJ and, after a week at Rarotonga, plansj were to visit Aitutaki and Pago Pagoc American Samoa. • WINDRIFT, 46 ft ketch from New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga, was in Rarotonga for a week in August. On board were skipper Tommy Car rail from California, and crew Miss Jean Dolby, Linda Bain, and John Hutchi inson, all Californians. The crew all met in New Zealand and they decideo to build a yacht and sail home toe gether. It took two years to builo Windrift and they have been cruisinjj for 18 months. Mr Carrall is a piloc with Pan American Airways and ha* flown on the New Zealand-Tahiti anoj return route, overflying Rarotongas many times. Miss Dolby was an aii hostess with PanAm for six years Miss Bain is a schoolteacher anti John Hutchinson an engineer. Planr were to visit Tahiti and Hawaii ami they hope to reach California somr time next year. • MAUN A KEA, 38 ft ketdri arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti ok August 7 with Peter Kammler an<r his wife, Beate, both from Berlin, ok board. They had called at Californii and the Galapagos Islands. Mr Kamnn ler inherited his family’s meat inn port business in Berlin and his wifi is a schoolteacher and journalists After a week in Rarotonga thes planned to sail to Fiji and Australia! cross the Indian Ocean and return ttf Germany by the spring of 1974.

Triptych, 65 ft ketch-rigged tri, left Fiji in late August for the New Hebrides, after nine months in Fiji waters. Aboard are skipper Matthew Burpee and wife Elizabeth.

Photo; Chris Moorhouse.

• RIGADOON, 38 ft ketch has een cruising the Pacific for a little ver a year and a half with owners :anne and Carl Moesly from Miami, lorida, on board. Recently their )ute has taken them from Cairns, ueensland across the top of Aus alia to Darwin. From there to ortuguese Timor and Bali. After a ree-week stay at Bali they were aving for Christmas Island, Cocos, odriques, Mauritius, Reunion ex iting to arrive in Durban, South frica towards the end of October. • MAGGIE MAY, 30 ft British :tch departed Bali August 1 for her ossing of the Indian Ocean. Owner mon Homes-a-Court has been on a cumnavigation since October, 1969 d is making a movie of his trip. • RENEGADE, 50 ft Cheoy Lee fshore ketch, an Alden design, de rted Hong Kong in April with mers Cynnie and John Tunnicliff board and crew Judy Young and )bin Pringle. Renegade cruised with ;inz Wiankow’s 33 ft sloop HOPE d Harry Peppler’s 40 ft yawl ZSTLESS WIND. All three boats ipped at Manila, Ticao, Zamboanga d Toli Toli before dropping anchor Bali. Plans were indefinite, but they re continuing on to Singapore early atember. • ESTRELLITA, 40 ft trimaran s also in Bali with single hander •uglas Sutherland from New Zea d on board. He also made the trip m Hong Kong, taking seven weeks route, with only one three-day p at Manila.

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nidad with Harold and Kwailan Borde and their eight-year-old • on board stopped for a month Bali before starting out on the ian Ocean crossing at the end of gust. • MARAENUI, 52 ft Nauru istered motor/sailing yacht arrived Majuro, Marshall Islands in August m Tarawa. Gary Dalton, a US zen, is her skipper, and she is wed by two Fijians—one male and female. Next port was to be ajalein and then on to other atolls the Trust Territory. Salvage work many ships wrecked in the TT been arranged with the Nauruan iers of the vessel, and for the next months, she is to survey the ability of salvage. • CORSAIR, 42 ft blue steel er from Whangarei, New Zealand, from Cairns via Cooktown and Coral Sea to arrive in Port resby in mid-August. After a few ks’ stay, Harold and Heather ?h plan to sail east for Samarai.

• Tiare Hinano, 36 Ft Boro

design steel ketch from Sydney, sailed from Cairns via Cooktown and the Coral Sea to arrive in Port Moresby m mid-August. On board were Bob and Robyn Darragh. When the south east trades ease, their plan was to sail for Samarai and surrounding islands. • CASSIE, 38 ft Hedges design ferro-cement, centreboarder from Sydney, also sailed from Cairns via Cooktown and the Coral Sea to arrive in Port Moresby in mid-August. On board were Kosti and Carol Simons and daughter Ariane. • RUAKURI, 32 ft cutter from Auckland, New Zealand, arrived in Port Moresby from Vila in late August. On board were Frank Bowels and crew Colin Bower.

• Bonaventure De Lys,

25i ft Vertue Class, auxiliary engine and Hasler self-steering gear, with lone skipper-owner John Struchinsky from Winnipeg, Canada, arrived from Rarotonga to Nukualofa June 27

and left July 22 for Suva and New Zealand. John is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force mechanical tradesman. He had sailed in coastal waters for five years but this is his first attempt to sail deep water. The trip was at times a little rugged, he said, but he preferred long distances of 500 miles. • NEW VENTURE, 23 ft ferro cement yacht owned and skippered by Leon Chatfield with crew Vincent Heatley of NZ and Doug Grant of USA, arrived in Nukualofa July 21 from Bay of Islands, NZ and left August 11 for Haapai, Vavau and Suva. Leon has built two other ferro cement yachts, a 40 footer sold be fore he sailed it and the 20 ft ADVENTURE which he sailed to the Loyalties, New Hebrides, Santa Cruz and the Solomons in 1968. Doug Grant intends taking over New Ven ture in Fiji then New Hebrides and the States.

• Dream Machine, 36 Ft

trimaran, owned and skippered by

Peter Crowe and wife Joan, left Barrow-in-Furness, England, 1969 and cruised across the North Sea to Scandinavia then down to the Canaries and across the Atlantic to the Barbados, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Rarotonga and Tonga tapu. They left for Fiji and New Zealand on August 19 intending to sell Dream Machine and settle in Christchurch. • GREYBEARD, one of the largest and most modern yachts to visit Tonga, is a 73 ft ketch. She was designed by Hadfield and built in British Columbia, Canada in 1970.

The Canadian owner and skipper Mr Lol Killam entered Greybeard in this year’s Los Angeles-Tahiti yacht race against six other contestants from Canada, the US and France. Grey beard with her 13 member racing crew won the race, covering the 3,700 miles in 20 days. One of the crew, Jeff Allan, said the yacht is one of the easiest 73 footers to sail down wind. Others aboard on this trip are Mr and Mrs Lol Killam, Tom En dersby, Don Soper, Ken Galpin and Allan Blunt.

After their race victory, half the crew returned home while the cruise continued through the Society Islands,

Rarotonga and Tonga. Greybeard left August 19 for Vavau, Fiji and the Sydney-Hobart race. She reached Suva early September.

O lOTA, 30 ft Water witch Lee bord ketch built in Sydney by Simon Simpson, who is also skipper. Crew member Jennifer Ashford brought the yacht from Sydney to Tonga on MV Tauloto where Simon joined her early in August, lota left for Haapai and Vavau August 3, then on to spend a leisurely month exploring the Fiji group. As freelance writers and photographers for yachting and travel magazines, they have covered the Bahamas, Tahiti, the Solomons, PNG and the South China Sea. • CLEAR SKIES. 37 ft ketch arrived at Rarotonga from New Zea land in mid-August with Grahame Murray and his wife, Christina, on board. They planned to spend a month in Rarotonga, sightseeing, be fore deciding whether to continue cruising or to return to New Zealand. © MORIAH, 38 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete, Huahine.

Raiatea and Bora Bora on August 18 with skipper Charles C. Nunnery, his wife Joyce, and their 14-year-old son Matthew, on board. The family from Florida, US, planned to stay a fortnight in Rarotonga before pro ceeding to Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand. © SALTY, 33 ft cutter, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on August 18 with skipper Edward Aderton, John Cherrington and Ted Culley on board. The cruise started from San Diego, California, last November, and the first ports of call were the French Polynesian islands. Salty was stranded on a reef there and the French Navy helped refloat her. Repairs in Tahiti took three and a half months before the yacht was fit for sea again.

• WINDCALL, an Auckland yacht, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on August 19 with skipper K. N. Higgins and H. D, Plessis on board. The next port of call was to be in Vavau, Tonga. e SHEBESSA, a yacht registered at Southampton, UK, arrived at Rarotonga on August 19 from Papeete with skipper Norman Martin, Sheila Martin, Max Roedel and Alan Robinson on board. Shebessa was New Zealand bound, and Mr Roedel joined her in Tahiti. © TAMURE, an Auckland nuclear tests protest ketch, arrived at Raro tonga from Tahiti on August 22 with owner-skipper James Rolls Sharp, James Cottier, Hilary Sharp and Barry Kirkwood on board. Tamure was bound for Auckland. Hilary Sharp left the yacht at Rarotonga because of illness. © Planning an indefinite stay in Fiji are Ross and Minine Norgrove, who have obtained a charter licence to operate their 70 ft schooner WHITE SQUALL 11 throughout the group. It isn’t easy to get Fiji Gov ernment approval for charter opera tions, unless it can be proved that business won’t be taken away from local cruise vessels. In applying for permission, the Norgroves offered never to advertise locally for passen gers.

The Norgroves plan to draw their passengers from a clientele previously established during seven years’ cruis ing in the Virgin Islands. People had written to them, said the Norgroves, saying they wanted a change from Caribbean cruising and would follow White Squall wherever she was based. © TYPEE, 36 ft sloop registered at St Thomas in the Virgin Islands, was due to leave Fiji in late Sep tember to spend several months in New Zealand. She arrived in Suva in late August from Pago Pago, with owner-skipper Robert K. Grant, his wife Marie, son Guy, 13 and Danny Choy, of Honolulu as crew. Typee has been based at Honolulu for the past three years. © In Suva in September was Ray Rawls’ 35 ft New York ketch MISS Fancy V; DAY-SPRING (Auckland); PAUL-MARKSON (Auckland);

Wind Song; Rebel; Mu An A

KEA (Berlin); ARGO (Goteborg); and MANY AN A (Australia). Due to depart in mid-September was the 75 ft Auckland-built ketch FINISTERRE, a familiar sight in Fiji waters for the past 12 months. She was due to return to Australia.