Cruising
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Yachts
• AEGIR, a 45 ft custom sloop Mad dox cruising boat built of fibreglass over plywood was a May arrival in Tahiti.
Owner-skipper Bjorn Johansen, 40, was born in Norway and later migrated to Canada and on to the United States. He bought the Aegir in 1973 and in the northern spring of 1975 left California and sailed to Tahiti. With him are his three daughters; Monica, 15, Leslie, 14 and Karen, 12. They have started school in Tahiti where they will stay several months. • AKURAKU, 36 ft steel-sloop with Australians Fred Grimminck, 34, wife Lesley, 25 and 8-month-old Tony arrived in Tahiti on May 3. They left Australia in June, 1972, and sailed around the world. Tony was born in Trinidad and had travelled 6,500 miles. When Akuraku was 600 miles between Panama and the Galapagos a girl crew member became dangerously ill. Fred sent an SOS on his ham radio, resulting in an air-sea rescue, with the US Air Force flying in two paramedics and evacuating the girl to Panama by tuna boat. Fred and Lesley also had another exciting event near the Galapagos when killer whales swam round their boat. They hitchhiked around Tahiti with baby Tony. In May they sailed for Rarotonga, Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia and Queensland.
• AQUARIUS, 34 ft sloop, which arrived in Rarotonga on April 30 from Tahiti, left in May tor Niue, with Othell Hallouf (captain) and Maxine Hallouf. • BEYOND, a 46 ft high-speed cruis ing sloop from Philadelphia, left Tahiti mid-May after being in French Polynesia for four months. Aboard were skipper Bill Packer and navigator Jack Kendree, both of Philadelphia, Susan Waterman, daughter of the famous underwater diver and photographer, Stan Waterman and Steve Becker, a photographer from Chicago. Beyond left Philadelphia two years ago and cruised the Caribbean,
Colombia, and Panama, before arriving in Tahiti. They plan to visit the Tuamotus and Marquesas, before heading for Hawaii. • CHANSON, 40 ft wood cutter diesel auxiliary boat from Los Angeles left California in May, 1969, and sailed down the coast of North America, South America, the Caribbean, on to the South Pacific, where she arrived two years ago for the first time. She sailed the Cooks, Samoa and the Tuamotus and came back to Tahiti for the second time in Novem ber, 1974. Owners Harold and Jean Kil mer plan to stay in Tahiti until after the Bastille celebrations in July, and then sail to Hawaii and back to Los Angeles. • CHEIRON NAPA, a 26 ft Westerly sloop which can stand in mud has two keels. Owners Rex Reno and wife Cathy, from Oregon, arrived in Tahiti in late April and cruised the Society Islands.
They want to see as much of the Pacific as possible. Rex bought a boat three years ago and learned to sail. So far they have visited Baja, the Marquesas and Tuamotus. • COQUILLE, 37 ft yacht, left Raro tonga on May 5 for Fiji, with Captain Ronald L. Hayes and crew Phyllis Hayes, Annie Larmor, David Peek and guest Stephen Schenkel. • DULCINEA, 46 ft Bermudian ketch of ferro-cement, from Vancouver, arrived in Tahiti in April and left mid-June for Rarotonga. Dulcinea is owned by Blue Water Yacht Charters, Canada, and has accommodation for six guests and crew. • FOLLY 111, 30 ft sloop, which arrived at Rarotonga mid-April, left on
These champagne-swigging gentlemen, from the left, Jim Hill, Mike Harris, skipper Lee Campbell and Bruce Kueffner, are celebrating their safe arrival at Guam in their yacht Reality, which they had to sail for 300 miles with a broken main mast. As PIM reported last month, Reality's mast snapped off just above the spreader arms in a "modest squall" off Agrihan in the northern Marianas.
May 12 for Aitutaki and Pago Pago carry ing co-owners Suzanne M. Wilson (cap tain) and Eleanor A. Gobrecht. • GRETEL, an 85 ft three-masted schooner registered at Stockholm, Sweden, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on May 1 with Captain Lars Fran berg and six crew, one an American who joined the yacht in Tahiti. The rest are Swedes. • HONNALEE, a 42 ft ketch, with owners Canadians Roy and Rika Gingell and cat Brutus, called at Kavieng, New Ireland, in May bound for Madang via the Admiralty Islands. Ports in Irian Jaya and Singapore are next on the sailing list. • INTERLUDE I, a 30 ft cutter regis tered at Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga on May 26 from Christmas Island with skipper T. J. McKenzie and Trevor John Beckett. Plans were to visit Samoa. • JUBILATION, 48 ft Cal sloop, arrived in Tahiti on May 19, carrying Gil Smith, of Newport Beach, California, his wife, Helen, son Dave, 18, daughter Susan, 20, Susan's friend, Marge, and Steve Sadler, of Hawaii. Gil bought Jubilation three years ago from Harry Steward, who had raced her in many rompetitions, including the Transpac dawaii race. They left Los Angeles in lune, 1974 and after two weeks in Tahiti, jlanned to leave for Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand. • KARMA, a 30 ft German built fibre glass slooo arrived in Tahiti early May. «on Smith, 40, Auckland, said he be ieved he was the only person from New Zealand to circumnavigate single-handed.
He left New Zealand in November, 1972, md sailed to Australia and on around the vorld until he met up with RESOLVE in Martinique. Leon was to leave Tahiti at he end of May for Rarotonga, Tonga, iji and Auckland. • LA CARETA, 32 ft sloop, left Raro :>nga on May 12 for Niue, carrying co wners, Swedish brothers Anders and iunnar Eriksson. • LA FLOR, 30 ft ketch from Tahiti, /hich arrived at Rarotonga in March left i May for Penrhyn and Samoa. On rrival she was carrying owner-skipper olf Heimann and American Jane Hol rook. Heimann left on his own. Miss folbrook having decided to stay in Raro >nga and try for a schoolteacher's osition. • LE MARIPIER 111, 40 ft yacht, from witzerland, arrived in Tahiti on April 22 nth owner-captain George Geston, ariett Carlson of Sweden, and Bernard riet, of Switzerland. They began their rcumnavigation from the south of
France and cruised the West Indies be fore coming through the Panama Canal to the Pacific. They visited the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus and the Society Islands. They plan to sail to the Cook Islands, Fiji and New Guinea, before they leave the Pacific area. • LEISURE V, 37 ft trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga on May 9 from Papeete and Bora Bora and left on May 20 for Tonga.
She was carrying owner-skipper Clair L.
Smith, who built the craft himself be tween 1971 and 1974, Donna Rhodes, who joined at Bora Bora, Jim Dyal, who signed on in Tahiti and Keith Ela. After Tonga, Leisure V is expected to sail to Fiji. • MARIPOSA, 38 ft trimaran from Lima, Peru is visiting Tahiti for three or four months. On board are owner-captain John Zuanich, 29, and wife Pilar, 23 and Les Raos, 23, Auckland. John is an Ameri can who lived in Peru for 18 years. He sailed the Mariposa from Callau, Peru, to Panama and installed his engine there.
After six months in Panama he and Les sailed to the Marquesas where Pilar joined them. Two months later they visited the Tuamotus and then sailed to Tahiti.
From Tahiti they will head for Hawaii and then California. • MERIDIAN 11, a 40 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on May 21 with owner-captain Bill Kitching, his wife.
Dawn, and their seven-year-old son, Simon. They struck rough weather and water ruined the electrical system putting both the engine and deep-freeze out of action. Plans were to call at Tahiti, other islands of the Society Group, American
Samoa, Tonga and Fiji during the return voyage to Auckland. • MOANA, 34 ft San Diego-registered ketch, left Rarotonga on May 22 for Niue carrying lone sailor Raymond Quint. • MUSCARI, a Deb 33 ft sloop, be longing to D. J, Morley and wife Hilary, of Faversham, England, dropped anchor at Tahiti in May, having left home in August, 1974 and called at the Gala pagos, Tuamotus and Marquesas on the way. After two months in French Poly nesia they hope to sail or the Cooks, Tonga, Fiji and New Zealand. • MYANNA 111, 30 ft yacht, regis tered in Montreal, was a May 2 arrival at Rarotonga from Papeete. On board were skipper Daniel Roose and Denise Plourde. They intended to sail to Vavau from Rarotonga. • MY LOVE, a Cheoy Lee offshore 50 ft from Pinetop, Arizona, left Tahiti May 8 for the Cook Islands, Pago Pago, Vavau and Fiji. Owner-skipper Randy Weston, her two daughters Heather and Pamela and son Shea were in Tahiti for six months. Randy reported the marine con version salt water pump was worn out and the Folly 111 helped to get the needed part from Los Angeles by calling for assistance on the ham radio. Also aboard My Love as she left Tahiti were two crew members from Vancouver, Henry Proske and Caroline Bliss, who will accompany the boat to New Zea land. • NUNAGA, 50 ft wooden sloop, arrived in Tahiti on April 1 and left mid-
May for Hawaii. Aboard were owner Peter Francis of Marion, Massachusetts, and three crew members—Dr and Mrs Roger Tuck, London, and Tom Pillion, Detroit. Peter sailed the Atlantic when he was 16 and is a recent Middlebury (Vermont) graduate, who plans to return to the US, then come back to the South Pacific for a circumnavigation. • OPTY, 30 ft yawl, arrived in Fiji in May carrying Pole, Stanislaw Teliga, a retired journalist. Mr Teliga is following a course round the world sailed by his brother, Leonid, six years ago. Leonid later died from cancer. Poland issued a postal stamp to commemorate his feat of sailing single-handed round the world. Mr Stanislaw Teliga, in Fiji, met
people who helped his brother to make the trip. Later the Opty will go on show in Poland's national maritime museum. • PATRICIA, 60 ft replica of the original Chesapeake Bay oyster fishing boat with slanted masts to use the main halyards for hoisting the cargo of oysters on board is a dream come true for owner E. O. "Ollie" Olson from Los Angeles. Ollie was a tourist to Tahiti two years ago. He sold his 27 ft Cheoy Lee and bought Patricia. He arrived in Tahiti on April 30. He plans to tour the Society Islands for the time being. • PHYLLIS GRAHAM, a 45 ft yawl, registered at Sydney, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on May 24 with owner
skipper Russell Roxburgh and Phyllis Mary Roxburgh. Their next port of call was to be Vavau. • PRINCESS, 43 ft Rhodes yawl, from Santa Barbara, California is back in Tahiti, after cruising the Society Islands. She arrived in Tahiti in November with owner Ed Schmidt, 32, Annie Christensen, Ali Warren and Willy Wilson, all from Cali fornia. Annie wanted to travel so Ed bought the Princess, even though he knew nothing about boats at that time.
He's had a chance to learn as the voyage took them from California to Hawaii, Fiji and Tonga, before Tahiti. They will leave in July or August, probably for the Cook Islands. • RESOLVE, Hinckley Bermuda 40 ft yawl built in Maine in 1959 by Bill Tripp and the first one ever to visit the South Pacific. Owners Sy Carkhuff 111, 38 and wife Vicki, 30, of Akron, Ohio arrived in Tahiti mid-May, along with son David, 7, and the cat. They left Maine in No vember, 1973, and sailed down the east coast of the United States to the Carib bean Venezuela, Colombia and Panama.
They arrived in Nukahiva, Marquesas in early 1975 and from there visited the Tuamotus. They plan to cruise the Society Islands before going to Rarotonga, Vavau and Fiji and ending in Auckland for the hurricane season. Afterwards, they will continue their circumnavigation. They have been travelling with yacht KARMA since they met in Martinique a year ago. • S.E.A. QUEST (Scientific Enterprises Associates Institute, Inc) is the name of a 40 ft ferro-cement diesel auxiliary ketch owned by Richard Johnson of Los Angeles and wife, Chantal, of Strasbourg, France.
Richard leases the boat to the institute, of which he is the founder and executive director. He has been in French Polynesia since October, 1972, filming document aries of the ultrasonic telemetry tagging of sharks to obtain information on their daily movements and depths. This re search has been principally in Rangiroa and was supported by the US Office of Naval Research and the National Geo graphic Society and Cal State University of Long Beach. Richard and Chantal met and married in French Polynesia. They will sail to Hawaii soon because Richard wants to use the library there to aid him in writing a book on sharks of Polynesia.
They will return to Tahiti between October and December. • SILVER SWORD, 54 ft racing cutter, left Rarotonga on May 12 for Papeete.
She carried skipper Jay Lambert, his wife Lou, Walter Bush, Pip and Cindy White, and Linda Cheyney. • SUNDAY, 44 ft ketch, from San Francisco, an April 12 arrival at Rarotonga from Papeete, left in May for Pago Pago,
carrying owner-skipper William Podbreger and J. Podbreger. • SUNDANCER, 104 ft schooner, was a recent arrival at Vila in the course of a Pacific cruise, after which she will sail to the UK, via Australia. She has been described as the world's fastest schooner.
She is owned by Mr Felix, a 27-year-old Englishman, who bought her in 1974 from Mr Len Last, another Englishman, for £35,000. Mr Last built the Sundancer.
Apart from Mr Holmer, she carried seven others —NZ lawyers Mr and Mrs C. W.
Stanton; John Patrick Callow, a UK econ omist, who is mate; Hugh Tod, another New Zealander, Sara Anne de Haan, a passenger on the way to Australia; John Eric Gilbert, an Englishman; and Miss Barbara Grace McDonald, from NZ, travel organiser, who went to the New Hebrides about four years ago. • SUPER SHRIMP, 18 ft Caprice class yacht, which looks like a day sailer, arrived in Tahiti in April carrying owner Shane Acton, of Cambridge, England, and Iris Derungs, of Switzerland, who joined the yacht at Panama. The owner spent 2i years in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and intends to make a circum navigation in what he believes is the smallest boat to attempt such a feat. He planned to spend some time in French Polynesia before sailing west. • TARMIN, 25 ft sloop, from London, which arrived in Rarotonga via Papeete with lone sailor, J. Sowden, left in May for Tonga. • TAREWA, 21 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on May 3 from Opua, NZ, carrying Gary F. Adams. She left on May 12 for Papeete. • TROUBADOR, 41 ft imperial ketch from San Francisco, arrived in Tahiti May 20. Owner-skipper "Jug" Shoaf, wife Lou, sons Doug, 23, and John, 14, were to be joined by daughter, Diane. Two years ago Jug bought a boat and decided to sail around the world. In January, 1975 he and his family boarded Troubador for their circumnavigation.
They visited the Marquesas and the Tua motus before Tahiti. They planned to stay in the Society Islands for at least a month before sailing on to Rarotonga, Fiji, Samoa and New Zealand. • WILLY WILLY, 40 ft Euros ketch, from Paris, arrived in Tahiti on May 4 with owner William Cremer, of Paris. He left the south of France and toured the Caribbean before coming to the South Pacific. In Panama crew-member Daniel Anizon, of France, joined him for the trip to Tahiti. Willy Willy is being stored in Tahiti for an indefinite period while the owner flies back to Paris to return to work on his specialty, making TV stages and lighting them. He will return to Tahiti later, and continue his cruising to Samoa, Fiji and New Zealand.