Cruising

Yachts

• STORMVOGEL, 73 ft ketch made Port Moresby an overnight stopover in early November on her way to Singapore.

• White Bird, Shi-Bui,

Tiare Hinano, Pandemonium

and VALAURANNE left Port Moresby November 16 to sail to Samarai and beyond. Pandemonium, 54 ft ketch with Keith and Veronica McCarthy, Shi-Bui, ferro sloop, with Bryan and Lynn Cooper, Valauranne, trimaran with Ray and Val Goldston, and Tiare Hinano, ketch, with Bob and Robin Darragh were at Marshall Lagoon November 24, intending after Samarai to go island hopping in the Louisiade Archipelago, t h en to Rabaul. • TINGIRA is the original 45 ft Crowther design Malstrom trimaran from Melbourne. On November 19,

she arrived in Port Moresby from Cairns with George (Moses) Reid, his sons Bruce and David and navi gator Pam Cahir on board. George told PIM that they had a terrific run from Cairns. • PETER PAN, 36 ft Nicol design Cavalier trimaran was built in Lae.

She had been in Rabaul for some time when Reg Lincoln and his daughters Debbie and Karen set sail for a short cruise to the Trobriand Islands and Samarai and on to Cairns where Karen left to join another yacht. Peter Pan then came up the coast to Thursday Island and over to Port Moresby. She arrived in late November. • TIARE, 32 ft red steel sloop from Antwerp, Belgium. After sailing up the Queensland coast to Thursday Island, Tiare then sailed to Darwin.

But as it was too late to cross the Indian Ocean, she returned to Thurs day Island then came on to Port Moresby to arrive in late November.

Paul De Smet, his wife Vaea Tanetoa, who is a Tahitian, and their son Paul Junior plan to sail on to Singapore from Port Moresby. • KAREELAH, 35 ft trimaran and KORONG, 39 ft ferro-cement yacht arrived back in Australia after a successful cruise in Papua New Guinea waters. • KRATTLE, 32 ft modified John Hanna design, is now in Honolulu, Hawaii, after making the passage from San Francisco, California, with skipper Tom Hewatt and a crew of eight. The cutter-rigged modification to John Hanna’s renowned Tahiti ketch “handled superbly the entire trip and self-steered 90 per cent of the way.” Krattle is one of the largest productions from Dread nought Boatworks in Carpinteria, California, which is building fibre glass hulls to John Hanna’s 50-year old design. • KINDRED SPIRIT, 38 ft ketch, departed Kwajalein November 4 for Ponape after repairs were completed.

An encounter with typhoon Nancy had necessitated a distress call at Kwajalein Missile Range. Typhoon Olga, in late October, caused a one week delay in the repairs, which in cluded unstepping and re-glueing the mainmast, extensive rewiring, and replacing part of the standing rigging.

Skipper Bruce Tavernetti, crew Attilio Grille, and ship’s cat Billikins were eager to put to sea again after their three-week stop at Kwajalein. Bruce and Attilio expressed appreciation for the assistance provided by the per sonnel of the normally off-limits base.

Kindred Spirit was escorted to the pass out of the lagoon by Com modore Thom Nelson of the Kwaja-

lein Yacht Club and a crew of well wishers.

Kindred Spirit was stranded on the reef off Ponape November 11. A pass ing fisherman towed her off, un damaged. Billikins disappeared two days out from Ponape when Kindred Spirit was under power with the sails up. Attilio guessed the cat was play ing with the loose headsails and fell into the sea. The engine noise pre vented any sound from being heard.

Just off the Ponape reef, a 30-ft whale escorted the yacht. Bruce was concerned, but the whale didn’t get closer than 100 yards and left when they neared the channel. • KARLOO, 30 ft bilge keel sloop from Australia, arrived at Whangarei, New Zealand from Suva on Novem ber 24. On board were owners Geoffrey and Ruth Goodman who had spent most of the winter cruising the western waters of Vanua Levu, from Labasa to Savusavu. Few foreign yachts ever go up the Labasa River to the town. Also, Karloo, according to the local people, was the first foreign yacht ever to sail up the Dreketi River, the deepest in Fiji. • PAGAN, brand new 37 ft racing sloop arrived at Rarotonga on November 7 from Auckland with skipper Gerry Booth, Kimo Lyman.

Keith Fade, Jackie Minnit and Gary Limbaugh on board. Pagan was built in Auckland and was launched early last October. The sloop left Raro tonga on November 9 for Tahiti and

Captain Ernest Kettenhofen, former master of the Matson passenger liner Monterey, headed a California volunteer crew sail ing the racing yawl Baruna from Fiji to San Francisco. She was recently donated to the California Maritime Academy Alumni Association by John W. Mclntire (PIM, Dec., p 91). The volunteers arrived in Suva just in time to experience the violence of hurricane Bebe. Baruna sur vived the big blow, but not much later, in early November had to return to Pago Pago en route for Honolulu, with electrical trouble.

Kindred Spirit

Hawaii. Mr Booth and his crew intend to take part in next year’s Trans-Pac race and they will first sail to the US. • NADEGE, 41 ft sloop, also arrived at Rarotonga on November 7 on a delivery voyage from Auckland to Tahiti. On board were the yacht’s owner, M. Daniel Tardieu, skipper Jack Allen who is Com modore of Auckland’s Royal Akarana Yacht Club, Ron Gomas and Miles Cross. All the crew are New Zealanders. Nadege, a ferro-cement vessel, was built by Ferrocraft Marine and was also launched early last October. Heavy weather and rough seas forced the vessel to make an unscheduled stop at Rarotonga. M.

Tardieu is Director of Publications in Noumea for the daily newspapers Le Journal Caledonian and the Corail. • VALHALLA, 61 ft ketch, returned to Sydney November 30, completing an extended world circumnavigation. Skipper/owner Mrs Manfred Schmidt set out in 1966 as Ann Brittain and married her German husband in South Africa. Valhalla did charter cruising in the Great Barrier Reef, was refitted in Port Moresby, and finally cleared Australia from Thursday Island in June, 1968.

She touched at Cocos-Keeling a Seychelles Islands, Durban and Soi African ports, Gibraltar and Eu. pean ports, St Thomas, Panan Papeete, Bora Bora, Nukualofa a Suva, arriving just ahead of hui cane Bebe.

Valhalla is now up for sale. 1 Schmidts plan to build another err ing yacht, © TORO A, a mastrigged sic with owner-skipper Captain Brs and his wife on board arrived at A] in November having sailed with« damage through hurricane Bebe. Tt came from their home country Ni Zealand and had visited Fiji, Tor and Futuna. After a week at Ap Toroa left for Pago Pago, the Cc Islands and Tahiti. • QUE COISA, 43 ft 8 in ket: arrived at Rarotonga from Pape: on November 28 with skipper Stui Seaton, wife, Nancy, and Thon B. Ballard and Johan H. Moll, Americans, on board. The Seato are co-owners of the yacht, £ captain and crew are all fn Virginia. Que Colza's voyage star from the US early last July and a were made at Bermuda, St Crc Panama, the Galapagos Islands, I cairn, Mangareva and Tahiti.