Cruising
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Yachts
Six sailing boats were in Pago Pago In February, waiting out the hurricane season, with the owners taking advant age of the respite to carry out main tenance. • LUALLAN, 35 ft Sea Witch ketch, from Honolulu, is owned by Jim and Lillie Morgan who have their three children on board. They arrived at Pago Pago via Palmyra and Fanning Islands.
They were undecided about their next port. • MATTHEW, 30 ft Tahiti ketch, has been at Pago Pago for some time. She is owned by Dave Irvine, at present executive producer of KVZKTA, the American Samoa TV network. Matthew arrived at Pago Pago from Los Angeles, Hawaii, Fanning and Suvarov Islands.
Future plans are uncertain. • SWERVER, 42 ft steel ketch, is on fhe last leg of a world circumnavigation oy Australians Renee and Frank Leszlo.
Fhey have been out for 4i years. • LA UNA, 37 ft trimaran, owned ay Jerry and Patty Des Roches arrived after calling at Hawaii, Fanning and Juvarov Islands. The Des Roches plan to itay in Pago Pago for two years. • WINDCHIME, 30 ft and ketch igged, is owned by Ralph and Olivier )avis. Ralph built her in Boston. On the vay to Pago Pago she called at French ’olynesia, and the northern Cook stands. Tonga is the next stop. • ATANTO, 35 ft ketch rigged tri naran, is owned by Carol and Bob ichmetzky. She called at the Galapagos, larotonga and Tahiti before Pago Pago. • WHITE SQUALL 11, 70 ft schooner, vith Ross and Minine Norgrove, cruised hrough hurricane Lottie-stricken Lau, a ew weeks after the “blow" seeing at rst hand the extent of the damage. They /ent to Ogea several times with clothing, ood, kerosene, fishing gear and other ifts. “Never have we seen such devasta ion," Ross wrote to PIM. • GUANA DEL MAR, 42 ft trimaran etch, with skipper Wallace "Mac" Mac >onald on board, has been missing at ea since February 7. On that day a tayday call from MacDonald was picked p by an amateur radio operator on )ahu (Hawaii) and a search-rescue opera on was launched by the US Coastguard.
McDonald left Kwajalein on January 5 3 sail single-handed to Honolulu. The earch-rescue operation was called off on ebruary 13 without trace of the ketch r MacDonald.
• NANILOA, a 36 ft steel ketch sailed from Port Moresby early in February with Geoff and Carol Godby on board. They planned a leisurely sail to Madang. • LEDA a 23 ft steel sloop from Germany skippered by Heinrich Henze, who has been ,n Port Moresby for the north-west season sailed for Indonesia m February for Indonesia and then on to South Africa. • RAMBLER 11, from Berkley, USA, arrived in Cairns, Queensland, from Giso. Occupants Dick and Ann Willis reported a very rough trip across as they weathered two cyclones.
• WHISTLER, 53 ft schooner, was in Vavau, Tonga, in February. Owners Pat and Lloyd Muno have been there for two months, and later expect to leave for Suva, the GEIC and Micronesia. , DOVE, 23 f , h was so|d auction in Fiji on March , fo , j 5 QOO. she was p aced unde , arrest .„ Feb , for a e ged unpaid debts. The yacht was used fi ming Here There Be „ $ in Fiji in 1973. The owner, Mr Henry Smith, a Los Angeles company director, bought the yacht from the film producers' before they left Fiji. The new owners are Mr Stuart Huggett and Mr Colin Ben nett, who will use it for pleasure sailing.