Cruising
pp. 93-94 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• Peregrin Took, 30 Ft
ahiti ketch, arrived at Rarotonga om Tahiti and Bora Bora on ugust 29 with Philip Hoysradt, Jane feadwell and Hunt Searles on board. lr Hoysradt and his friend, Spencer eeby, spent almost three years to cher in Costa Rica as Peace Corps embers working on a fisheries de dopment project. In their spare Tie they built Peregrin Took. They iled the ketch to the Cocos Islands id spent a month there, almost /ing off the land. Wild life abounded -deer, goats and pigs. Fish was mndant and nearly 40 lobsters •uld be caught in half an hour.
Next port of call was the Galapagos lands where Mr Hoysradt left the cht for a fishing holiday in the 5. Other crew members sailed the tch to the Marquesas where the ainmast broke when only two miles • Nukuhiva. Philip Hoysradt re ined the yacht in Tahiti. Next calls :re to be in Tonga, Fiji and the arth Island of New Zealand where ly plan to work, hoping to arrive jre at the beginning of December. • CLOETTA, 35 ft sloop, with ner-skipper Jim Mayo and Steve >yle on board, arrived at Raro iga on September 1 from Tahiti d Bora Bora.
Mr Mayo began his cruise from • 22 months ago, crossed the lantic to the Caribbean and, from nama, called at the Galapagos, irquesas and Tuamotus. Mr Doyle Ted the yacht in Tahiti and plans re to visit Tonga and Fiji, spend the hurricane season in Fiji. • MIHIMANA, 35 ft motor sailer 18 tons, arrived at Rarotonga from ia, Western Samoa, on September vith skipper Philippe Gamblin and r crew on board. The crew com bed Tahitians Michel Guinebert and >ta Avaema and Japanese Tsuneo mama and Fumiyasa Miyazaki.
Tie cruise started at the end of e from an important Japanese a and bonito fishing port near tyo. The two Tahitians were mem s of a dance troupe on a six ith contract in Japan and chose
this adventurous way of returning home. The two Japanese are friends of the captain. Calls were made at Saipan in the Marianas, Truk and Ponape in the Carolines, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Wallis Island and Samoa. The next port of call after Rarotonga was to be Tahiti. • AES ANAL TOO, 52 ft ferro concrete ketch, registered at Chicago and built in Ecuador, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti and Bora Bora on September 6. On board were owner-captain, S. Alexander Bell, his guest Bud Lowenstien, and crew mem bers Englishman John Andrews, engineer, Jose Chalen from Ecuador and Jose Cardinalli from Easter Island. The cruise started from Ecuador last January and calls were made at Panama, the Galapagos, Marquesas and Society Islands.
Alsanal Too is a fast sailer, covering from 160-165 miles a day, and once logged 230 miles during one day’s “wild sailing’’. Plans are to sail to the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, where Mr Bell plans to retire, with intermediate calls at Tonga, Fiji and Auckland. • BLANQUITA, 42 ft sloop registered at Honolulu, arrived at Rarotonga on September 8 from Pago Pago, American Samoa, with owner-captain Robert E. Amos and crewman Hans Wenger on board.
Plans were to call at Tahiti, re turning home to Washington, USA by March, 1974. • QUEST, 34 ft yawl, was at Ebeye, Marshall Islands, in Sepiember.
She was delivered to owners, Fred and Polly Mathes, at Ebeye on August 3, from Los Angeles, via Honolulu, by the Mathes’ son, Don, and a friend, Neil Gugins.
Fred, manager of the Ebeye Co-op,
will keep Quest at Ebeye indefinitely.
He has long-range plans to sail the South Pacific.
• Wanderbird Of Devon ,
39 ft 6 in. catamaran registered at Dartmouth, England, arrived at Raro tonga from Tahiti, Huahine, Raiatea and Bora Bora on September 13. On board were skipper J. M. Barrett, Mrs P. B. Barrett and si-year-old daughter. The Barretts visited many of the West Indies islands including Barbados, Grenada, St Vincent, St Lucia, Antigua, St Martin and the Virgin Islands. After a call at Curacao they cruised down the Colombian coast to Panama.
Pacific ports of call included the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands and the Tuamotus. Plans are to sail direct to the North Island of New Zealand and to settle in NZ. © L'AFFRANCHI, 23 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from France, Tahiti and the Society Islands on September 13 with skipper-owner Gonzales Pattyn and Oliver Magd, both French citizens, on board. Also on board was the skipper’s dog, Whisky, which answers to commands in French. Mr Pattyn’s voyage started on July 4, 1971, and plans are to call at Niue, Fiji and Noumea.
The hurricane season will be spent in Noumea and Mr Pattyn and his companion, who joined the yacht in Tahiti, hope to work in Noumea during their five months’ stay there. • Crews of yachts visiting Port Moresby were the guests and well wishers on September 23 at the mar riage of Lyn Faval and Bryan Cooper, the new owners of SHI-BUI (ex NZ). Guests were from VALUAR
Anne, Cassie, White-Bird
Taire Hinano, P Avan A
Windenzee, Pandemonium
The yawl Quest at Ebeye in September.
and ORIENTAL LADY, all of whom (excepting Oriental Lady west bound) plan to move eastward in November. • GAYNA DARI, a trimaran arrived in Port Moresby September 24 from Bundaberg via Thursday Island with Merilon and Hugh Hunter and their two children.
• IN VICTUS, from Whangarei, NZ, was in Vavau during the last week of September and will be return ing to her home port via Suva after having visited Rarotonga, Tahiti, the Society Islands and Niue. On board were skipper-owner Selwyn Matheson, his wife Jewel and two-year-old son Brett, Eileen Blake from New York, John Olsen from Seattle, and Kerry Marvin from Colorado. • ISBJORN, Dr David Lewis’s 39 ft ketch, has been abandoned about 40 miles off Efate, New Hebrides. On board at the time were skipper Barry Lewis, the owner’s son, and Clifford Bellamy. They were on their way to Sydney from the
Geic.
They left Vila early in September, but struck trouble soon after when a porthole started to leak badly. The crew sent out an emergency signal and were picked up early next morn ing. Isbjorn was abandoned in mid ocean.
Dr Lewis later received a message from his son saying that Isbjorn had not been found. It was possible she had sunk for there was also a struc tural failure, Dr Lewis told PIM.
She had been in the GEIC for the last three years, trading as a copra boat.
Dr Lewis was then in the midst of preparation to leave Sydney about mid-October in his 32 ft steel-hulled sloop ICE BIRD and sail round the world, across the bottom of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.
He expected to be away from Aus tralia about six months.
O Many of the yachts in Suva in early October were planning to move on before the end of the month. They included NAT ASH A, 38 ft ketch, which arrived in Fiji on September 29 with captain-owner James Bercaw, his wife and three children on board and SPIRIT OF THE WIND, a tri, which arrived in Suva from Tonga on September 24, with A. S. King, Margaret King, Michael Wroughton and Nancy Dengler on board. d MUSTANG, US cutter, with Keith and Rosemary Jones on board, was due to leave Suva for New Caledonia during the second week in November. • MAUD, 50 ft ketch, arrived in Suva on September 25 from Tonga skippered by Shaun Redward. Crew were David Lynch-Watson, Bob Greenslade and Gary Morey. She was due to leave for Russell, NZ before the end of October. • RIK, 38 ft Dutch sloop was still in Suva in October after arriving with Amsterdam couple Claes and Wilmoed Honig on September 16 from Nukualofa. The Honigs were planning to sail for Auckland early m November. • KUAN YIN, Canadian schooner, arrived in Suva on September 16 from Tonga and was due to leave for Australia before the end of October. On board were Roger Clancy and Sheila Mitchell. 9 Still in Suva in early October were WIN DC ALL, which arrived J from Tonga on September 22 with j skipper Keith Higgins and Herman i Du Plessis on board; and BOLERO,.
US sloop, which arrived on August] 29 from Vavau, with Bill and Sue; Schmidt on board. Bolero was bound! for Noumea some time in October..
• Alsanal Two, Us Ketch,,
was in Suva in early October withr skipper S. Alexander Bell and crewv of four. Plans were to cruise Fiju waters for an indefinite period.