Cruising

Yachts

• WHISTLER, 43 ft schooner, is in > Marshall Islands with owners Pat d Lloyd Munro on board with son n and navigate/ Petesa Mahe, a igan from Utungake, Vavau. They left in August calling at Rotuma and mce to the Ellice Islands where they :ompanied the GEIC government ship /anga, which was carrying the British ivernment representative overseeing • voting in the referendum on the ce's political future. Stops were made Funafuti, Nukufetau and Niutao lere Whistler joined in the festivities td in honour of Britain's envoy, lere were huge feasts and we joined the dance fatele, enjoying ourselves ry much", write the Munros. Makin >ll in the Gilberts was the last call fore the Marshalls. • CHALETO, 66 ft ketch-rigged mo sailer, arrived at Rarotonga from ✓a on October 7 on her maiden voy a with owner-captain Bob Martin, his fe Joy, son David, daughter Pamela, d friend Michael Lorimer. Their cruise rted from Auckland last August and *y planned to call at Tahiti and Ha lii. Other possible ports of call are nama, the Caribbean islands and rope. Chaleto, privately-built in Auck id, has a fibreglass hull, a 176 hp rdner engine, a variable pitch pro ller, radar and automatic pilot. There plenty of head room, all mod cons d carpeted living quarters. • DRUIANA, 30 ft sloop registered Dartmouth, UK, arrived at Rarotonga >m Tahiti and Bora Bora on October with skipper John Dalby and friends smond Goode and Tom Walsh. Mr

Dalby sailed from England to the Can ary Islands where he was joined by Desmond Goode, then to Martinique where Canadian Tom Walsh joined the crew. Calls were made at the Galapagos, Marquesas and Tuamotus, and plans were to call at Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand. • RED BOOMER TWO, a 60 ft yacht, left Port Moresby for Sydney on Octo ber 31 to represent Papua New Guinea in this year's Sydney-Hobart race. The owner-skipper-builder is Bill McNeil, an Australian who has lived in PNG for 11 years. He sailed from Perth to Port Moresby in 1963 in another yacht he built himself — Red Boomer One. A crew of seven and his two children were with him on the cruise to Sydney. Red Boomer should make Sydney on Dec ember 4. • With the approach of the hurri cane season there was an exodus of yachts from Suva. Forty-two left in the last three weeks of October and an other 10 were scheduled to pull out early in November. In the three months to the end of October, 122 yachts called at Suva. Most of them were from the US, Australia and New Zealand. • TAIYO, owner-master Robert E.

Peterson, 75 ft steel auxiliary brigantine, registered in San Diego, California, was in Papeete and Society Islands, between June 23 and August 8, and in Moorea and the Leeward Islands during August and September. She left San Diego early in January, cruised the Mexican west coast waters, and then made a 38-day passage from Acapulco towards the Mar quesas Islands. Captain Peterson's crew includes his wife, Jenifer; son Richard, serving as chief officer, daughter, Nancy E. Sattem and her husband, Jan Paul, Russell B. Coleman, Edna M. Cordivin, Roberta L. Hill, Stacy E. Hughes, James M. Russell and Richard N. Wilson. Three others, James Chapman, Roy Schutten, and John Tinker left her in Mexico, being replaced by Coleman and Wilson. Taiyo, which has no prototype and no equal

afloat, was designed by seaman/historian.

Captain J. Ferrell Colton (known to PIM readers through the book review section), who oversaw the construction of her clipper-bowed, counter-stern, hard chine hull in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. Captain and Mrs Colton make their home on the south coast of Tahiti. With her relatively high free-board, enclosed chart-wheel house aft, and double standing gaffs on her main mast, Taiyo is among the most modern square-rigged sailing vessels afloat and attracts attention wherever she goes. Her Japanese name means ocean. • KISSES, 19 ton sloop-rigged motor sailer, registered in Los Angeles, arrived at Rarotonga from Tonga on October 28.

On board were owner-captain Don R.

Kidder, Maxine Kidder, Peter Reuthinger and Barbara Jacoby. All are US citizens except Mr Reuthinger who is from West Germany. They are returning to the States after a Pacific cruise and the next port of call was to be Papeete. 0 KARLOO, 30 ft Australian sloop, with Geoffrey and Ruth Goodman aboard, has been cruising in the Lau Group, Fiji, during the winter. After a brief visit to Futuna, lies de Horne, Karloo is at Suva and will spend the hurricane season in Fiji waters. • MARI, 33 ft sloop, with Bob and Maria Hall, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on October 31. Their cruise

Taiyo.

slarted from Fort Lauderdale, California, on November 14, 1973, and calls were made at all the West Indian islands, Venezuela, the Dutch islands and Colombia. Pacific ports of call included the Marquesas where they were greatly impressed by the hospitality and friendliness of the people who would accept nothing in return. Plans were to sail direct to Auckland, spend the hurri cane season seeing New Zealand, then continue their Pacific cruise with calls in Fiji and Tonga.

O HAN-BRI, from Germany, carrying skipper Hans Schmidt, and crew, re cently joined KAREELAH, a trimaran, with Carol and Gus Trouchet, at Santo, to sail to Honiara, via Banks Islands and Santa Cruz. • BLACK LABEL, US-owned trimaran, became a complete loss during a recent storm at Santo, in spite of the efforts of skipper Rowdy Taliaferro, his crew and two guests to save it. They set two extra anchors, but the storm still blew the trimaran on to the reef. A few weeks earlier Black Label was slightly damaged when she ran on a reef at Ambrym. • There was an exodus south from the New Hebrides recently as yachties sought safe anchorages to ride out the hurricane season. KARIE (Wayne Smith), sailed for Sydney; HONEYMEAD (Ches ter and Norma Lemon) for Auckland; HOHOQ, ex Vancouver (skipper Ted DeVilla and son Jan) and trimaran VUMA (Nan and Bram Pieterse), left for Noumea, Mooloolaba and Brisbane. • VAGABOND, carrying Inga and Len Martinson and Lotti, arrived at Vila on the way to the Solomons and Papua New Guinea. • ALLEGRA, trimaran, anchored at Vila late in October, carrying skipper Roy Kisner, of Los Angeles, and crew Florence Wright, Janet Seddon and Peter Mills. She was bound for Port Moresby, via Honiara. © BESS, 34 ft ketch registered at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete and Bora Bora on October 20 with skipper-owner Dieter Wasserman and his wife, Heidi, both Germans. Their cruise started from South Africa, where they had lived for a few years, and they called at Braz ilian ports, Trinidad, Panama, and the Galapagos and Marquesas Islands.

They intend to sail direct to Auckland. • LEZARDER, 32 ft sloop, left Raro tonga recently for Hawaii, via Tahiti, carrying ownerskipper, Clark S. An thony, Gunther Kitchener, of Germany, and two Canadian girls, Mary-Anne Johnson and Patti Buxton. Anthony hoped to sell the sloop in Hawaii and buy a larger, more comfortable yacht for cruising.