Cruising
pp. 95-97 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• SAMBURAN, 35 ft yawl arrived at Rarotonga on July 1 from Tahiti with Mr Wade Swoboda and Miss Connie Columbus, both from San Diego, California. They left San Diego three and a half years ago on what was to be a six months cruise.
Ports of call were in Mexico, the Caribbean, Venezuela, Curacao, Panama and the Galapagos and Mar quesas Islands. Plans were to leave after a fortnight in Rarotonga for Fiji and New Zealand. • HISPANIA, 50 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on July 3 with single hander owner-captain Max Grave leau, who is sailing the yacht from Marseilles to New Zealand. He left France two and a half years ago and called at Gibraltar, Tangier, the Canary Islands, Colombia and Pan ama. Pacific ports of call were the Galapagos, Pitcairn, the Gambier and French Society Islands and the Marquesas. He will call at Tonga and Fiji en route to NZ. • CLIPPER, a 28 ft yacht, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on June 24 with owner-skipper R. C. Rouse and Miss Margaret Worthington. They left South Africa on a circumnaviga tion in January, 1972, and planned to remain a fortnight in Rarotonga before sailing to New Zealand and Australia. ® ALISIO, a 40 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on June 23 with owner-captain Frank MacCarthy of Santa Barbara, Miss Coco Ryan and Peter Coider, also from the US,
and Mr Teremoana Davis, a Raro tangan, on board. They will cruise through the Fiji Group before return ing to California.
O FREY A, 38 ft ketch from Los Angeles, is on a return visit to Fiji, carrying owners Peter Oehmen and his wife, Sandy. They left Fiji in October, 1972, for New Zealand, and waited there for the hurricane season.
They went back to NZ via the Kermadecs and Nukualofa. They will go back to NZ again in October.
The Freya left Los Angeles two years ago. • WAKAYA, 40 ft cutter, arrived in Suva in June from Whangarei, NZ, carrying owner, Ted Hay, and Chris Onial and Jan Hurrell, Mel bourne University students, as crew.
Mr Hay worked in Fiji in the 1940 s and named his yacht after Wakaya Island. His future plans are indefinite.
O JAHAMA, 36 ft sloop, built in Hong Kong, was in Suva at the end of June. Her owner, Jack Ross, an American, was on his third visit to Fiji in the yacht. She arrived from New Zealand, and will stay in Fiji till October. ® HANBRI, 32 ft sloop, arrived in Suva in June on its second visit, carrying owner-skipper Hans Schmidt, Gerhard Kiesel and Deborah Smith, of New York, as crew. Mr Schmidt, formerly of Germany is a naturalised Canadian. The sloop was scheduled to leave Suva late in July for the New Hebrides, the BSIP and Papua New Guinea. • DULCINEA, 37 ft sloop, arrived in Fiji recently after a cruise which started in Europe two years ago. Her owner, Ilmari Hiilivirta, a Finnish chemical engineer, has since cruised extensively in French Polynesian, Samoan and Futuna waters. Judy Erickson, of Colorado, joined the Dulcinea in Pago Pago. The sloop was to leave Suva about the end of July for the New Hebrides.
• EQUINOX, 33 ft sloop, carry ing owner-skipper, Jorg Zimmer man, was an arrival in Fiji in June.
Mr Zimmerman has been sailing the sloop in the Caribbean and the Pacific for the last five years. He spent about a year in New Zealand. Next on his itinerary are either New Caledonia or the New Hebrides. • TUFF lE, 35 ft ketch, at present in Fiji, will leave about October for New Zealand and eventually Aus tralia. She is carrying Red Brooke, formerly a USAF jet pilot and his wife, Ruth. They are from West Palm Beach, Florida, and have been sailing for about two and a half years. • SHAYLENE, 50 ft steel cutter, from NZ, arrived in Fiji recently, carrying owner Russell Foley, his wife, Maureen, and their three children, Sheryl, 9, Wayne, 7, and Mark, 4. • CLAYMORE, 36i ft ketch, skippered by owner Neil Lamont, from Western Skye, Scotland, was a recent arrival in Fiji from Tasmania via New Zealand. • LONE BEAVER, yacht, sailed by George Adams, recently arrived in Suva.
The Shaylene, Claymore and Lone Beaver , plan at some indefinite date, to cruise together. • FIA, 40 ft Alden design cutter arrived in Port Moresby from Vila in early June. After a few weeks’ stay, Swedish skipper Carl Seipel, and crew Hans Bernwall sailed for Thursday Island. They plan to cross the Indian Ocean after visiting Indonesia. • ELIZABETH , 34 ft steel gaff rigged ketch from Alkmaar, Holland, arrived in Port Moresby from Fiji in early June. Adriaan Hoekmeyer, his wife Margaretha and daughter Katja, stayed a couple of weeks, then sailed for Indonesia and eventually on to Holland.
• Oriental Lady, A 40 Ft
Piver design trimaran from Micro nesia, with owner/skipper, Jan Ebbinge, crew Dianne Berry and Paul and Ellen Bryan, left Port Moresby late in June planning to sail to South Africa via Indonesia. • QUE COISA, 44 ft twin bilge/ keel ketch from Hampton, Virginia, arrived in Port Moresby on June 18 from the New Hebrides. Stuart Seaton, his wife Nancy and crew Tom Ballard and Donald Findley, stayed a short time then sailed for Darwin, Broome, and Fremantle. • MUSTANG, 32 ft cutter from Seattle, arrived in Port Moresby late in June. Keith and Rosemary Jones said the trip from Lizard Island was quite rough. After a few weeks, they plan to sail to Thursday Island, Timor, Bali, then on to Singapore. • RIK, 38 ft steel sloop from Amsterdam, arrived in Port Moresby from Lizard Island, late in June.
Claes and Welmoed Honig, stayed a couple of days, then sailed for Thursday Island, Indonesia, and the Indian Ocean. o NAM SANG, 28-ton California based yacht, arrived in Apia on June 21 from Pago Pago. Skipper P.
Maestri had with him a crew of 12. • HOHOQ, 6-ton Canadian yacht, arrived at Apia on June 20 from Pago Pago with Edward J. Devilla, the skipper, and a crew of two. • CUNY AH, 33 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on June 14 with owner-skipper Allan Righthouse, Mark Pitcher and Jeff Cope. Gunyah left England last September and calls were made in Spain, Portugal, Canary Islands, West Indies, Panama, Ecuador, and the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands. After a week in Rarotonga plans were to sail to New Zealand where they will sell the yacht. • DEMARIS TAO, 29 ft ketch, with Captain Black, two Tahitian girls and one American girl, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on June 15.
Captain Black, from San Francisco, California, built the ketch himself in Oregon. His cruise started three years ago and he has called at Mexico, Central America, the Galapagos, Marquesas and Society Islands. Plans were to visit Aitutaki and Suwarrow, but ports of call beyond had not been decided on. • BLOSSOM, 35 ft trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga on June 11 from the Tuamotus with owner-cap tain Lloyd Reinn and Miss Virginia Rosser on board. Their voyage started
from the US in July, 1972, and calls were made at the Hawaiian Islands and the Tuamotus. After a month in Rarotonga they will visit Tonga and New Zealand. ® SUZIE 11, 36 ft fibreglass sloop, from Sweden, which arrived in Port Moresby early in May, is now leaving the Pacific. Skipper Ulf Peterson expresses his gratitude to Pacific Islanders for their hospitality. • lAORANA, 30 ft schooner-rig ged yacht, is at Suva for repairs after suffering a severe buffeting in heavy seas when two days out of Auckland on the way to Fiji. At one stage the crew, owner Bruce Lamb, and his wife, Suzanne, from Los Angeles, feared they would be unable to pump out the water which kept flooding into the yacht after compression blew out the main deck hatch. After block ing the drains through which water was flowing into the cockpit, Mr Lamb was able to pump the water out.
When the weather eased a little they were able to get the yacht into some thing like seaworthy condition and sail on to Suva. They estimated the damage at $2,000. When the laorana is repaired the Lambs will cruise in Fiji waters and then head west for the Ne' T lebrides and the BSIP. • CHIRIAGO, a 50 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on June 21 from Tahiti after a month there with owners Bob and Janice Carman and friend Owen McPherson. The Carmans bought Chiriaco (the name means Mexican Indian Princess), two years ago and cruised in Mexican waters.
This, their first ocean cruise, took
them from the US to Tahiti and Rarotonga. Plans are that Mr McPherson will fly back to the US from Fiji and the Carmans will cruise on to Samoa and Hawaii. • VAGRANT, a yacht owned by New Zealander Des Reid, has been at Vila for the past nine months for which the pupils of Iririki District School near Vila are truly thankful.
For years the school has had to rely on rainwater stored in tanks for their supply and when rain was scarce the pupils had to bathe in the sea. Des, who is a water diviner, has come to their aid. Using a forked twig, he found an underground stream near the school. The Mines Department dug a hole 12 ft down after Des’s twig had signalled the presence of water and there it was. © All in Vavau, Tonga, in late June were: WHISTLER , 42 ft gaff rigged schooner, with Pat and Polly O’Leary, heacled back to California from NZ via Pago; LAFLOR, 32 ft Tahiti ketch lone-handed by Bob Foes and headed for Fiji and NZ; LORELEI 111, 47 ft tri with Andreas and Jean Propst and their three chil dren, six years out from England, just in from the Cooks and off to Fiji and NZ via the Tonga group; and 70 ft schooner WHITE SQUALL , Ross and Minene Norgrove, winter ing from NZ. The Norgroves in early July made a “cruise” to Tin Can Island, with Vavau identity Patricia Matheson, struck violent storms on the way back and had to make a run for Fiji. The Norgroves are now in Suva making extensive repairs.