Cruising

Yachts

• ICE BIRD, 32 ft gunter-rigged yacht, reached Capetown in March, carry ing lone sailor Dr David Lewis. Dr Lewis left Sydney in October, 1972, and sailed south to the Antarctic. He left Ice Bird at Palmer station early in 1973. He re turned in November, 1973, and sailed to the South Orkney Islands. He then sailed for Sydney, but seven weeks out of the South Orkneys he ran into a hurricane. The yacht capsized and lost its mast. Dr Lewis set up a jury rig and sailed to Capetown. • RON OF ARGYLL, 50 ft ketch, is at a Cammeray (Sydney) marina, waiting for the end of the hurricane season. PIM reported last September that Ron of Argyll was at Rarotonga the previous July, and on board were owner-skipper Larry F. Bryant, a counselling psychologist of San Francisco, Michael Flynn, Barbara Flynn and Joyce Gertler. She then sailed to Tonga and Fiji. The Flynns left the ketch in Fiji and went back to the United States, Joyce Gertler came on to Sydney.

Wr Bryant sailed single-handed from Suva to Sydney in 23 days, arriving in October.

• ARWEN, a 48 ft ferro-cement ketch with Australian Adrian Hickey and Scots girl Anne Hill on board, is in Captain Cooks Bay in Moorea. Adrian dropped anchor there just over a month ago after a four-month stay in Papeete, Tahiti, They arrived in Tahiti in Novem ber from Rarotonga where they had enjoyed a six-month stay. This is Arwen's second sojourn in French Polynesia. The first was interrupted by the French who decided Arwen must go after she had done a charter job for the radicals, taking food supplies to the NZ nuclear test protest yacht Fri. Arwen's engine is under repair at present. As soon as she is ready to sail, Adrian plans to do another charter job, but this one won't bring any protests from the French. He is taking British Museum ornithologist David Holyoake to the New Hebrides and the BSIP. • FRI, the NZ peace protest yacht which sailed into the Mururoa nuclear testing zone in 1973, will make a good will tour through the Pacific later this year. An appeal for $50,000 to sponsor the voyage has been launched. • WHISTLER, 53 ft schooner, ran aground at Totoya in Fiji on March 9 while on the way from Neiafu in Tonga to Suva. It reached Suva three days later, under tow by the salvage vessel, Salmar, which pulled it off the reef. On board at the time of the

grounding were the owner, Mr Lloyd Muno, of Oregon, US, his wife, Pat, and son, Tony. The Whistler was to go into dock for a survey. • SHEARWATER, 36 ft ketch registered at Portland, Oregon, USA, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti and Bora Bora on March 16 and left for Tonga on April 6.

On board were skipper Donald Stevens, and crew Sara Campbell, Mark Lindgren and William Larson. Skipper and crew are all US citizens. • SAMBURAN, 35 ft yawl which ar rived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on July 1 last year was still in its cradle at Avatiu Harbour in April. Mr Wade Swoboda and Miss Connie Columbus, both from San Diego, California, who arrived with Sam buran, were still ashore in Rarotonga.

Wade has set himself up in a radio repair business and Connie, a shorthand typist, was one of the Cook Islands Reporting Secretariat which covered the recent con ference of SPEC, PI PA and the South Pacific Forum, all in Rarotonga.

TRIPTYCH, somebody wants news of you. An American reader has asked for news of her whereabouts and, of course, of her owners, Canadians Matthew Burpee and his wife Betty. Triptych, a 65 ft ketch-rigged trimaran, was last reported in PIM (Oct, 1972) as heading out of Fiji for the New Hebrides. A note to PIM will be forwarded to the American reader.