Cruising
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Yachts
• TIARE, a 32 ft steel sloop from Antwerp, Belgium, returned to Port Moresby after a cruise to Rabaul via the Milne Bay Islands.
In mid-May, skipper Paul De Smet, his wife Vaea and son Paul Junior, sailed for Thursday Island then on to Indonesia and Singapore. © SUZIE 11, is a 36 ft fibreglass sloop from Stockholm, Sweden. Ulf Peterson, his dog, Suzie, and crew Jean Shelsher sailed from Kieta in April, on to Nisson Atoll then the Trobriand Islands to arrive in Port Moresby in early May. After a few weeks stay. Ulf plans to sail to Darwin, Bali, across the Indian Ocean to Mauritius then on to Durban. © NEREUS, a 23 ft ketch from Cairns, sailed into Port Moresby from Samarai early in May. On board was Axel Hart. After a couple of months stay, Axel plans to sail to Thursday Island and Darwin. • TAT HAT A, a 31 ft Fiver design trimaran sloop from New York, sailed from Fiji in January to Santo in the New Hebrides to numerous islands in the Banks, Torres and Solomon Islands, through the Louisiade Archipelago to Samarai and anchored at Port Moresby on May 27. Skipper Lou Loomie, a well-know Pacific artist and crew Diane Galiardi told PIM it was a “great trip with a lot of sunshine”.
Lou has had showings in woodcut prints in Fiji and Honiara and plans to have a showing in Port Moresby.
After a few weeks stay, Tathata plans to sail for Thursday Island.
Indonesia and Singapore. • VUMA, a 35 ft Piver-design Lodestar trimaran was built at Katumba. Three years ago, Bram Pieterse, a well-known Sydney night club entertainer and his wife Nan, left Sydney and cruised the east Australian coast to arrive in Port Moresby on May 28. Bram and Nan plan to sail to Samarai and the Solomon Islands after a few weeks stay. • SILMARIL, a 44 ft ketch-rigged Choy catamaran from Los Angeles, sailed from Fiji to the New Hebrides then direct to Port Moresby to arrive on May 28 with Kirk and Ines Nyby and crew T Eric Johnson and Fred
Bonde on board. They plan to sail for Timor, Bali then across the Indian Ocean to the Seychelles and up to the Red Sea. From there they plan to truck the yacht across Israel, from where they will cruise the Mediterranean. • WITCHITIT, 38 ft trimaran, with skipper Danny Swan and crew members Rosita Perez, Timothy Newsham, Michael Dennison and Detlaf Graff, on board arrived at Rarotonga on May 21 from Tahiti.
Mr Swan, a general contractor, built the tri in Hawaii last year, then sailed her to the Marquesas and the Society Islands. He signed on his present crew in the Society Islands after spending 10 months there, and his plans are to visit Tonga, Fiji and Australia. • MO ALA, 34 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on May 28, leaking badly. On board was owner-skipper Australian Graham Tait. It took Mr Tait six years to build his ketch in Melbourne, and he had almost com pleted a circumnavigation started 3i years ago. His voyage took him to New Caledonia, New Guinea, Thursday and Christmas Islands, South Africa, St Helena, Ascension Island, the Azores, Britain, Madeira, the Canaries and the West Indies and Panama. Pacific ports of call were in the Marquesas and the Society Islands. • DELFIN, 42 ft ketch, with Mr and Mrs Stig Krogh, a Swedish couple, on board, arrived at Raro tonga on May 29 from Pago Pago.
With them was an American friend, Mr Eric Altree, and their English bull terrier, Tuffy. The Kroghs bought the ketch in San Francisco in 1970 and have since sailed her in the Pacific. Their plans were to visit American Samoa before returning home to Sweden.
@ MYONIE, 36 ft schooner, arrived at Rarotonga on June 4 from Tahiti with Americans Dr Gehrman and his wife on their third voyage round the world since 1960. Their present voyage took them to Jamaica, Panama and the Marquesas. Plans were to visit Tom Neale at Suwarrow, 9 AQUARIUS, 33 ft ketch, took shelter at Rarotonga from heavy winds on June 3. On board were Canadians Mr and Mrs Boulter and their two daughters aged two and three. They built Aquarius themselves in Australia where they have lived for the last nine years. Plans are to visit Tahiti, Hawaii and Vancouver before returning to Australia. • ORCA, a sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on June 3 during a circumnavigation. On board were owners Mr and Mrs William Truscott and crew Miss Vashti Holt. They left California seven months ago and called at Hawaii and Tahiti. They hope to visit Suwarrow before sailing to Fiji, Samoa and Australia. • MEI MARU, 30 ft ketch from San Francisco, with Dr Earl Hansen (captain) and Kathy Stephenson (crew) which left Kavieng, New Britain, in November, 1972, has since visited Witu, Madang, Manus, Hermit and Ninigo Islands, Jayapura, Biak and Manokwari. Next on its schedule are Ambon, Bali, Surabaya and Singapore. The Mei Mam left San Francisco in October, 1969. • LADY ARWEN, 47 ft yawl, an early May arrival at Rarotonga, carried owner-skipper, Adrian Hickey, an anthropologist, and Anne Hill, a nurse. They left Australia in August, 1972, and so far have called at New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Fiji and Tonga. The next port of call is Papeete.
Windwaggon II which went on the reef about 20 yards west of the Avatiu harbour entrance on the night of April 29 (PIM June p 91). The 50-ton weight of the 63 ft ferro-cement sloop made it impossible to tow her off the reef with the MV Manuvai. The vessel is now a total loss. — Photo: Johnson's Studio.