Cruising
pp. 87-89 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• TOPAZ, 79 ft schooner, was in Pago Pago in August. She is owned by Mrs Paul Partridge, of Golden, Colorado, US, and is sailed by the Great Escape Sailing Co Ltd, which operates under the British flag. She left the West Indies in 1973, and before Pago Pago called at Caracas, Aruba, Panama, Galapagos and Fahiti. The crew includes Karen Cross, Job and Phyllis Brinkerhoff, Peter and Sally Ruben, John and Cathy Carr, Brian Jikle, Jane Wiley, Peter Lenker, Roger >mith and Carl Hartman. • STARBOUND, 47 ft ketch, arrived it Pago Pago in August from Annapolis, Aaryland, Bermuda, the West Indies, luracao, Cartagena, Panama, Galapagos, he Marquesas, the Tuamotos, Tahiti and iora Bora. Owner George G. Stuermer, if Huntington Beach, California, and his irife, and son, Ernest, left Annapolis in >ctober, 1973. • VELA, 40 ft cutter, arrived at Pago ago in August from Honolulu, Nukuhiva, ahiti and Bora Bora, carrying owner iharles Wilcox jun, of Honolulu. His crew omprised three members of his family— awn. Garth and Linda. • BRENDA LYNN, 49 ft ketch, was at ago Pago in August. Owned and sailed y Paul Gran, of Los Angeles, it left Los rigeles in February, 1974, and called I- the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society lands before reaching Pago Pago. • Among the yachts which called at ukualofa in August were two of the ime name— APHRODITE. One was from Z, on the way to Fiji, and the other 'as British. The NZ Aphrodite was lught in a storm after leaving the home >rt, and took three weeks to make a ndfall at Vavau. Eighty miles east of avau, Mrs Dorothy Hewson, wife of the wigator, suffering badly from sea :kness, was put on board an American eighter. Two of the yachts were Ameri n. They were the SEA STAR, on the way NZ, and the KILAKILA, on a voyage om Honolulu to NZ. Another visitor was German yacht, PINOCCHIO. • BALEANAS, 28 ft catamaran, is ?ing repaired at Suva after her left hull as holed when she drifted on to a ral head at North Astrolabe Reef, Fiji, te in August. She was on the way from -w Zealand to California, carrying rmer Canterbury University Zoology lec
turer. Dr Lawrence Read, his wife and their three-year-old daughter. Dr Read was able to get the catamaran off the reef by using the outboard motor. She then limped towards Suva. A salvage tug picked her up and towed her into port.
Dr Read said he would continue the voyage after the Baleanas was repaired. • SOFIA, a 90 ft sailing ship registered in Gloucester, Massachusetts, arrived in Suva in August from Costa Rica via the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, the Cooks and Tonga.
Onboard are American citizens Brad Ives, Barbara Carroll, Dan Barnes, Sam McLoughlin, Karan Koski, Rob Turner, Bradley Tinius, Peggy Helford, Eric Thiele, Bonnie Walts and Mother Boats. Also on board is the ship's pet Varmit, a Mexican coatimondi, which joined the ship in Costa Rica. He caused quite a commotion at Kings Wharf, where nothing like him has ever been seen. Sofia is a converted topsail schooner built in Pakavit, Sweden in 1921. She used to be a general trader in the Baltic but was bought five years ago by a group of Americans and con verted into a yacht. Eric Thiele is the only one of the original group of four still with the ship. Sofia is now owned by her crew of four girls and seven boys who described her as a floating com mune. Her overall length is 120 ft, her beam 22 ft and she draws 8 ft. She was waiting in Suva for four new crew members who were flying from America to join her. The 106 ton ship is expected to sail for New Zealand towards middle of October. • NUNKI, 37 ft ferro-cement Ameri can sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Tubuai, Austral Islands, on August 12 with captain-owner lan Keith and Beth Church. Their voyage started from San Francisco in November, 1972, and took them to Mexico and the Galapagos, Mar quesas and Society islands. From Raro tonga they planned to visit Aitutaki, Western Samoa, Tonga and New Zealand. • DOVE, 33 ft American sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on August 16 with owner-skipper David Alfson and his wife. They sailed from Los Angeles and called at the Marquesas and Society islands. Plans were to visit Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. • AVE MARIA, 39 ft ferro-cement sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Auck land on August 16 after an .18 days voyage. On board were skipper David McCormick, Graham Sinclair and Bill Burchel. The yacht was bought by Bishop Rogers of the Cook Islands who intends to use it to transport his priests around the northern atolls of the Cook Group.
Graham Sinclair and Bill Burchel were to return to Auckland shortly while David McCormick will train a local crew, Ave Maria was launched six months ago.
• PUFFIN, a 27 ft American cutter of Gardner design, arrived at Rarotonga on August 16 from Bora Bora with owner skipper Jerry Taylor and Ev Frizzell. They sailed from San Diego and made calls down the Mexican coast and at the Mar quesas and Tuamotus. Next ports of call were to be Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. • BRISA, 31 ft German sloop registered at Hamburg, arrived at Raro tonga on August 15 from Tahiti with skipper Heino Sass and his wife, Brigitte.
Their next call will be Tonga. • SATORI, 46 ft sloop-rigged motor sailer from California, arrived at Raro tonga from Tahiti and Mopelia on August 19 with owner-captain Jack L. Jensen and Nancy Spencer. They plan to call at Samoa. • CIRCUS, 35 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Mopelia on August 18 with owner-skipper Dr A. T. Cotton, his wife, Janet, daughters Annabelle and Belinda, and friend Jim Foster. Circus was in Rarotonga last July, then called at Bora Bora, Raiatea, Moorea and Tahiti.
Plans were to call at Tonga, Fiji, possibly Sydney and home to Adelaide.
O In late August three yachts were in Mohawk Bay, Reef Islands, (Swallow Islands on the chart) in BSIP, home of Tom and Diana Hepworth who sailed the Pacific in ARTHUR ROGERS in the fifties.
They were: Roy and Rika Gingell's 42 ft HUNNALEE; the 32 ft steel sloop SOUTHERLY, owned and sailed by Doctors John Hulburt and Tim Meakin with their wives Linda and Gaye; and Bob and Sally Welles in their 55 ft SYLVIA, with their son
Three-masted yacht Sofia enters Suva Harbour.
Scott and a Fiji crew member. All three had come up from New Zealand, entering the Solomons at Graciosa Bay, and all three planned leisurely cruises westward to America. Tom Hepworth sent PIM this news, and adds, for the benefit of others: ’'Don't be put off by Admiralty Chart 17, which is inaccurate. Mohawk Bay is spacious and easy of access, and a perfect anchorage in the Trade Wind season." • LUTE SONG 11, Cuttyhunk auxiliary cetch, arrived in Papeete recently, carry ng David and Ann Harris, who were making a return to the Pacific. They auilt the ketch in Falmouth, England, and ailed from there in June, 1972, calling it Spain, Portugal, Madeira Island, Canary slands, and cruising in the West Indies or 15 months, before coming through he Panama Canal. They cruised in the Galapagos and the Marquesas for about hree months before sailing to Papeete, hey expect to be in French Polynesia ill April, 1975, and will then cruise to Jew Zealand via Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. )avid Harris wrote to PIM from Papeete, hocked at the way that place has hanged since he was last there in 1959.
The prices here are impossible!" he /rote. He also wrote that the Canadian acht, KHADENA, was lost about mid lugust off Rangiroa. The American yacht ATSY ANN would now sail from Papeete :> Hawaii and California instead of New ealand as originally planned. • MATANGI, 36 ft sloop registered at .uckland, arrived at Rarotonga on July 8 from Auckland with owner-skipper Mr . L. Cantwell, his wife, Jennifer, and ?n John. They planned to return to uckland with calls at Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji, ie New Hebrides and New Caledonia. • MAH JONG, 34 ft sloop registered f Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga on July ? with owner-skipper Mr A. Montague id his wife, Meg. They had been cruis ig in the Marquesas and Society Islands id planned to return to Auckland with ills at Tonga and Fiji. © KINYA, a Swedish sloop registered Hamburg, Germany, arrived at Raro mga from Raiatea on August 4 with Kuntedahl and Michael Millard. The icht sailed for Pago Pago on August 7. • TSURU, 75 ft steel-hulled ketch gistered at Wilmington, Del, USA, rived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on ugust 8 with owner-captain David -1 ler, his wife and two children and ree other crew members. The voyage arted from San Francisco on October 1, *73, and calls were made at the Gala gos, Marquesas and Society islands, lere will be calls at Pago Pago, Fiji, e New Hebrides and the Solomons.
O MOON MIST, a 45 ft ketch-rigged, mkee Clipper-style yacht registered in molulu, arrived at Rarotonga from the
Society Islands on August 8. On board were owner-skipper Dick Chesburgh, his wife Jay and their three children. The family had spent a year cruising, start ing from San Diego and calling at the Hawaiian, Marquesas and Society islands.
They spent three months in the Marquesas and two months in Tahiti. Plans were to call at Tonga and Fiji, and spend the hurricane season in NZ. The sea-going family then hopes to complete a circum navigation. • MARLUVA, 44 ft American sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on August 6 with owner-captain Andrew Burnes, his wife Amie, Nika Sullivan and Will Castle. Their voyage started from Cape Cod, on the east US coast, and took them through the hinterland water way to Miami and the Bahamas. From there they called at Port Antonio and Montego Bay, both in Jamaica —then the San Bias islands and Panama. Pacific ports of call included the Galapagos, Marquesas and Society islands. Plans were to call at Fiji, then either NZ or Australia—as circumstances dictated. • LA CROSSE, 36 ft ketch registered at San Diego, California, arrived at Raro tonga on July 30 from Tahiti with owner captain B. Turner and Mrs Turner. They sailed for New Zealand on August 10 with calls planned for Tonga and Fiji. • BOBBES, 26 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on August 9 with Bob Jones and wife Claire. They are sailing the yacht to New Zealand for the German owners Herr Uwe Tolks and his wife, Renata. The German couple cruised from West Germany to Tahiti in Bobbes and flew from there to NZ. Plans were to call at Tonga and Fiji. © KYON, 27 ft sloop registered at Glasgow, arrived at Rarotonga from the Society Islands on July 13 with owner-skipper John Anderson and his wife, Helen. Their cruise started from Glasgow in August 1972, and calls were made at Cork (Ireland) and the Canary
Islands. In the West Indies they cruised from Antigua in the north to Grenada in the south, then visited Venezuela, Curacao and San Bias Islands and the Panama Canal zone. Pacific ports of call included the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands.
Plans were to call at Tonga and Fiji and be back in Scotland by August 1976, after completing a circumnavigation.
Mr Anderson is an ex-deck officer of the Merchant Navy and served as a midship man in the Royal Navy. • AVILION, 43 ft sloop registered at Durban, South Africa, arrived at Raro tonga from Tahiti and Bora Bora on August 26. On board were the Rogotzki family; owner-skipper Siegfried, his wife Brigitte, and their children, Hans Olaf and Mark Erwin. Plans were to call at Niue Island. • ELLA, 32 ft cutter registered at Honolulu, arrived at Rarotonga on August 27 from Papeete, Bora Bora and Aitutaki with owner-skipper Walter Poitevent. Don Murray and Beth Church joined the yacht in Rarotonga, Beth having left the American sloop NUNKI there. They will call at Pago Pago en route to New Zealand. • Three new yachts arrived in Pago Pago early in September. The DAY SPRING I is owned by R. S. Russell of Suva, Fiji. The boat is 38 feet long, made of cement, built in Auckland, New Zea land, and flies the British flag. Russell and his crew of seven planned to stay a week in American Samoa. ® DULCIANA is owned by Peter J.
Kurst of Anaheim, California. The 32 foot cutter was built in Japan and is sailing out of Newport Beach, California. Kurst has been sailing in French Polynesia and planned a week stay in Pago Pago. • Jane and Dave Gildea, of Palo Alto, California, arrived in the 34 foot cutter VOLUNTEER. The wood-hulled boat was built in Nova Scotia. The Gildeas have been sailing in French Polynesia and planned a one-month visit to Samoa.