Cruising
pp. 83-85 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• PAMINA, 37 ft schooner registered ■ Vancouver (BC), arrived at Rarotonga i July 13 from the Society Islands. On jard were owner-captain David Pauls, is wife, daughter, Carol, and her hus jnd, Clayton Brown. The cruise started om Saltspring Island, near Vancouver, i August, 1973, and ports of call were San iego, the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society lands. Plans were to call at Tonga and ji, with a possible call at Niue en route, ien New Zealand. Pamina is 10 years d and once, because her foremast is juare-rigged, sailed in the movie The awaiians. © CANTANA, 30 ft sloop, also gistered at Vancouver, arrived at Raro »nga on July 14 from Bora Bora with /vner-skipper Dave Soul and his wife, ivinia. Their cruise took them from ancouver to Hawaii, the Marquesas, jamotus and Society Islands. They in nded to call at Aitutaki, Palmerston, ago Pago and then on through the acific. • NADEGE, 41 ft sloop, berthed at arotonga from Papeete on July 15 with /vner-captain Daniel Tardieu, and Vincent atter, both French, and Thomas Travers, merican. The yacht is from Nantes, ance, and left Rarotonga for Noumea t July 18. • QUEST, 52 ft motor sailer, after ding out the hurricane season in Sydney, n into rough weather crossing the Tas an, en route for Auckland, then cruised >wn the east coast of New Zealand, and :ross the Pacific to Rarotonga and Tahiti, fter leaving Hobart for Auckland strong inds blew her to the south, and when le did not report in by radio, air larches were mounted from Australia id New Zealand. These were called off hen the Quest sent a message saying le was near islands south of New aaland. Quest reached a NZ port late July and reported some damage in the orm. When the damage is repaired she ill sail north up the east coast of NZ, the opposite direction to that planned owner, Charles Carter. Also on board e the owner's wife and two daughters id two paying crew members. • PILECAP, 30 ft sloop registered at deford, Devon, arrived at Rarotonga on
July 19 from Papeete with owner-skipper Jeff Clarkson and his wife, Frankie.
Their voyage started from England in 1971 with the intention of visiting cousins in Seattle (USA). This they did after calls at Spain, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands and Curacao. They were four months at sea from Panama to Seattle and ran out of food, arriving half-starved. The news papers splashed the story with the result that a crowd of about 70 met them at Seattle and many of them became firm friends. From there the Clarksons sailed to Alaska, Vancouver, then down to Santa Barbara and San Diego and Mexico from where they threaded their way through the Galapagos to the Marquesas. There they found they had to barter clothes for bananas and other local crops. Plans were to sail to New Zealand with calls at Tonga, and perhaps Fiji, if weather per mitted. • FAIRWINDS, 40 ft ketch, was in Pago Pago late in July. The owner, David Taskett, of Honolulu, planned to stay there for three weeks. He sailed from San Francisco in the ketch in October, 1972.
O CORMORANT, 32 ft wood and fibre glass sloop, was in Pago Pago in July for an indefinite stay. The sloop, owned by John R. N. Culver, sailed from San Pedro, California, and visited the Mar quesas before arriving at Pago Pago. © ZEW MORZA, a 31 i metre Polish schooner, sailed from Brisbane to arrive in Port Moresby in early July. After two days stay. Captain Michalski and eight crew sailed for South Africa. • WILLIWAW, a 42 ft steel ketch from
Breskens, Holland, arrived in Port Moresby from Suva early in July. Skipper Willy de Roos stayed for three weeks then sailed for Torres Strait and the Indian Ocean. ® PETER WILLEMOES, a 33 ft fibreglass sloop from Hamburg, arrived in Port Moresby in early July from Fiji. On board were Nino Hansen, Heinz Lehmann, Rainer Habekost and Thomas Habekost who sailed for Torres Strait and South Africa a few weeks later. © CYGNUS A, a 35 ft Piver-design Lodestar trimaran, with Bruce Fitzgerald, his sister Cherri and crew Steven and Michael Smith arrived in Port Moresby from Cairns on July 13. © ZOROYA IV, a 35 ft Piver-design Lodestar trimaran from Victoria, Canada, sailed from Fiji via New Hebrides and the Solomons to arrive in Port Moresby on July 18. After a few weeks stay, Erni and Lee Crampton plan to sail her to Indonesia and Singapore. © BONADVENTURE DE LYS, a 25 ft Virtue, carrying John Struchinsky, a Canadian, arrived in Port Moresby on July 20 from the Solomons. After a short stay, Bonadventure de Lys sailed for Christmas Island and South Africa. • WILD GOOSE, a 32 ft Atkins ketch from California is on the way to Indo nesia and Singapore. On board are Ken and Lu Matson and son Mark who stopped over in Port Moresby for the north-west season. • TAHIA, a Dartmouth (England) registered catamaran, arrived at Rare
A happy looking bunch-the crew of the 60 ft ketch Valhala which was in Suva in July after sailing from New Plymouth and Auckland. San Diego (USA) via Rarotonga and Western Samoa, is the last place on the sailing plan.
From the left are, back row, Derk Vanderbent, the owner-skipper, Perry Milderbrand, Graham Davidson, lan King.
Front row, Howard Whishaw, John Phillis and Tony Oliver.
tonga from Bora Bora on July 31 with owner-skipper-builder James Kings and Wendy Smith. They plan to complete a circumnavigation. Their voyage started from England on October 1, 1973, and they called at Madeira and Canary Is lands, the West Indies, the Cocos Islands —although this put them in the Doldrums —then the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society islands. Plans were to call at Tonga, Fiji and Darwin. Mr Kings hopes to do another circumnavigation in another vessel in a few years time. • GULL, 27 ft fibreglass auxiliary cutter, arrived at her home port, Guam, on July 15 after a leisurely maiden voyage from Taiwan with extensive visits at Okinawa and Yap (West Carolines).
On board were skipper-owner Dick Justice and crew member Koko Heide from Japan. In December, after the typhoon season, Gull will continue her leisurely circumnavigation via Oceania. • Honiara was "alive" with cruising yachts recently—nine of them in harbour was an all-time record according to yachtie Bram Pieterse writing from the Point Cruz Yacht Club. They came from Germany, Honolulu, Australia, Canada and the USA. A remarkable coincidence was the simultaneous presence of three Lodestar trimarans — ZOROYA IV, from Canada (Lee and Ernie Crampton), YACHT KRANICH, Germany (Berliners Vera and Eckart Lutke), and VUMA from Sydney (Nan and Bram Pieterse). Other visitors included NEPTUNE from Hamburg (Gerard Diekov and Robyn Gras), sloop SEVEN SEAS (Berliners Bridgette and Hans Wolf-Sternig), sloop CAMELOT, from Los Angeles (former deputy sheriff Charley McCain and wife Laura), CHRISTIAN ROSE from Honolulu, RENEGADE and WESTER WIND. The arrival of so many German visitors, writes Bram Pieterse, brought the remark from the local club wit that the anchorage was "becoming a little 'over krauted' • CAMELOT came to grief only hours after leaving Point Cruz. At 2 am the following day, a waterspout tossed her on to a reef near Tagula island in the Louisiade Archipelago. Holed above the waterline, Camelot was high and dry on the reef in a short time. Canoes from a nearby village rescued Laura and Charlie McCain and their tortoiseshell cat, B-l, their ratguard and companion through two years of sailing. A Taiwanese fish ing boat took them to Misima air strip where they got transport to Samarai.
Hope of salvaging Camelot was aban doned and they transferred salvage rights to Nimoa Catholic mission station where "we had received so much assistance", wrote the McCains to PIM. They eventu ally arrived in Brisbane via Port Moresby en-route to America and, having learned that B-l was banned from entry, they
attempted to smuggle her through but Customs found the cat. They told PIM in their letter, in which they asked for help to save B-l, that "no one seems to realise what she means to us —she is part of the crew, part of the family". By the time PIM got the letter, it was all over.
According to a message from the Courier- Mail in Brisbane, B-l had been destroyed.
A Customs Department spokesman said officers had merely applied quarantine laws. The McCains are now at home in Duarte, California. • Among the many yachts which called at Suva over the past couple of months were: MAHLISH, ketch (Don and Esther Brown) on way from Vavau to New Zealand; SILHOUETTE (David Morine, Keith Caldwell, Jeff and Gay Rose) from Auckland; WAYFARER, ketch (Ron and Margaret Sharp, E. Manning, L. Chalfield) bound for Australia from Bay of Islands (NZ); BELINDA, sloop (Kember and Pat McMaster) from Whangarei (NZ); CAVIAR, sloop (John and Dianne Borrachough) from Auckland; PETER WILLEMOES, sloop (Niko Hansen, Thomas and Dianna Haberost and Hernk Lehmann) from Apia; SULA, sloop (Frank and Con MacNamara) from Vavau; KARLOO, sloop (Geoffrey and Ruth Good
man) from Whangarei; KARIE, Blyth Spirit design sloop (Wayne Smith) on way to Vila; ARWEN, yawl (Adrian Hickey and Anne Hill) from Samoa on way to Sydney; TANGERINE, sloop (Geoff Croga, Dirk Hess, Gary McKay and Gloria Kegg) from Vavau; PRINCESS, yawl (Manfred E.
Schmidt, Annie Christonsen, Alison Warren and Ron Hash) from Honolulu. • FLAMINGO— PIM recently had a note from Ron Herrick, owner-skipper of Flamingo, a 31 ft cutter (NZ built of Kauri). For the last couple of years he has been in the Solomons and Bougain ville with wife Dorothy, daughter Lindy and crewman Jim Kingston. They left Kieta in October 1973 for Australia, visit ing Sterling Island, Samarai, Cairns, the Barrier Reef islands, before reaching Mackay for the hurricane season, where Flamingo is undergoing a face lift before the next trip. Present plans are to leave Mackay mid-September with a NZ crew man Chris McNair, calling at New Cale donia, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga and reaching Auckland in time for Christmas.
Ron's wife and daughter won't be going on this trip —too much open water, they say!