Cruising

Yachts

& LEA UI, 52 ft American ketch, at Honolulu, arrived at Larotonga from Papeete and Bora iora with skipper Webster Larsen and yilma Larsen on July 26. The har ms left in Lea Ui for Tonga on mgust 9. 9 BUTTERCUP, 32 ft sloop, rrived at Rarotonga from the Society dands on August 14 with solicitor revor Coleman, his wife Jane, and ieir son Nicholas. They sailed from ondon about a year ago for New ealand where they hope to stay for vo years. Calls were made in France, pain, the Canary Islands, Barbados, amaica, Panama, and the Galapagos ad Marquesas islands. After 10 days i Rarotonga, plans were to call at atutaki and Palmerston islands, liue, Tonga and Fiji, reaching New ealand in mid-October. • FORTUNA, a New Zealand oop, arrived at Rarotonga from ahiti on August 6 with owner dipper Ken Furley and crew Dave •e Gray and Jeff Lareau. Fortuna left uckland in 1968 on a world cruise nd dropped anchor in Indonesia, Duth Africa, South America, )uthern states of the US, Caribbean mts and Panama. Fiji will be visited -fore the return to New Zealand. lr Furley has sailed Fortuna in the ydney-Hobart yacht race on seven :casions. • DODO 11, 36 ft ketch, arrived ; Rarotonga on August 23 with ngle-hander owner-skipper Stanley 'rummond. Mr Drummond built the icht and sailed her from San Diego, alifornia, last May, calling at the larquesas, Tahiti, Moorea, Raiatea,

Tahaa and Bora Bora. He planned to sail to New Zealand with a possible call in Tonga. He is an exschool teacher and a Merchant Navy skipper who served in North Africa during World War 11. He is one of

many disillusioned Californians, he says, who is seeking somewhere else to live, ® VALAURANNE, a Piver Lode star trimaran, has returned to Cairns

• On right is the Gitana Del Mar, 42 ft ketch-rigged tri maran, pictured at Kwajalein, the United States top security anti-missile missile base in the Marshalls, before sail ing to San Francisco in late August. Skip per MacDonald had sailed to the base from Roi-Namur. He called at Rongelap atoll on his way to San Francisco which he hopes to leave later this year for a round-the-world trip.

lifter cruising for 20 months through Papua New Guinea calling at East New Britain, Buka and Bougainville ;hen the BSIP with Val and Ray Goldston. • PANDEMONUM, motor ketch, las arrived at Cairns with Keith McCarthy after a cruise along the Papuan coast. On the return to Aus ;ralia the Pandemonum visited Dam and Thursday Island. The ultimate destination is the Gold Coast. • KOHATU, a ferro-cement ketch :rom Auckland carrying Terry and Maxine Paterson passed through Port Moresby in early August on her vay to the Indian Ocean. • WILD GOOSE, a 32 ft Atkins iesign ketch from California arrived n Port Moresby in early August. This rip has taken Ken Matson, his wife Lu and son Mark from Brisbane up hrough the Barrier Reef to Cairns hen across to Port Moresby. • OKERE is a 58 ft immaculate erro-cement Herreshoff design ketch ;rom Auckland. She sailed in the ~nd-Suva race, then came on to 3 ort Moresby via Fiji, New Hebrides md the Solomon Islands to arrive in nid-August. After a few weeks stay, Ikere with Jack Hargraves, Jon }lsen, Mike Gardiner, Bill Galbraith md Jocelyn Adams sailed for Indo lesia and South Africa. • SANDRA 11, a 27 ft fibreglass loop with Dima Grinups on board, ailed from Kristinehamn, Sweden, in nid-1971 to arrive in Port Moresby ate August after an interesting trip hrough the Pacific. After a couple >f weeks stay, he plans to sail to louth Africa via Christmas Island. • WHITE SQUALL 11, with Ross nd Minene Norgrove, last mentioned i these columns in August, after laving made a run for Fiji as a result if a violent storm off Tonga, finished tie repairs at Millers yards, Suva, in arly September. They also took the ipportunity of making some improve ments to the 70 ft schooner which or many years they ran as a charter oat in the Caribbean, where Minene /as born. They look like making a ermanent home in Fiji now. • SOUNION, a 28 ft sloop sailed y single-hander Herman Jansen, rrived at Rarotonga on September 7 rom Tahiti. Mr Jansen sailed from Amsterdam and called at the Canary dands, West Indies, Panama, Gala agos, Marquesas and Society Islands, le planned to visit Fiji then spend ic hurricane season in New Zealand,