Cruising
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Yachts
Transport Briefs
• A new 37 ft 10-ton ship has been added to the Solomon Islands trading fleet. The ship, the Libaka, will be used round Ysabel to bring cargo to a central point for trans shipment to Honiara. The Libaka, built of ferro-cement, cost $25,000.
It is the second ship of its type to be built by the Honiara Marina and Shipyard Co. An order has been placed for a third ship. • Mr J. I. Tauvasa, of Hoskins, West New Britain, has been ap pointed Controller of Civil Aviation for Papua New Guinea. He will be responsible for administering the civil aviation regulations, which include licensing air crews, airways opera tions officers and aircraft mainten ance engineers. He will also be re sponsible for the Civil Aviation Agency, which operates air traffic control and flight information ser vices. • Marine officers who hold Pacific Island certificates of competence will be able to serve in, and command, Fiji-registered ships trading between Fiji and Australia and New Zealand, under legislation which will go to parliament for approval. This is ex pected to provide greater work oppor tunities for Fiji ships’ officers. • The United States may seek rights in the South Pacific for an other airline in 1976. This hint was dropped by President Ford when he approved a route exchange by Ameri can Airlines and Pan American World Airways. American Airlines withdrew from the South Pacific in 1974 under a deal with PAA, which gave PAA exclusive US rights in the South Pacific and American Airlines some PAA routes in the Caribbean. • Sofrana - Unilines, in mid- August, increased the freight rates on the New Zealand-Pacific Islands service by 10 per cent to cover the cost of the recent devaluation. The Island groups Sofrana-Unilines ser vices from NZ are New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, Papua New Guinea and the Solomons. • The Solomon Islands will use part of a UK grant of $621,270 to buy a steel barge, 80 ft by 25 ft. The barge will be mainly used for charter by the Ministries of Works and Pub lic Utilities, and Agriculture and Lands. It will be capable of carrying 50 tons of cargo—either cattle or heavy plant machinery.
• AKURAKU, 36 ft steel sloop, was a recent visitor to Niue while on a cir cumnavigation, nearing its end. The sloop left Fremantle about three years ago. She carried owner-builder-skipper Fred Grim minck, his wife Lesley, and old baby, Tony. The Akuraku stayed three days at Niue. • MARI, 33 ft sloop, arrived in Bris bane late in July carrying Bob and Marie Hall who started a circumnavigation from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in November, 1973. They planned to cruise the Great Barrier reef before sailing to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Seychelles and the Red Sea.
After sailing through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal, they visited Nukuhiva, Tahiti and other French Polynesia islands, and Rarotonga. The Halls spent the 1974- 75 hurricane season in New Zealand, and in April sailed for Australia, via Tonga, Fiji and New Caledonia. • YOLANTA, 32 ft double-ended ketch, was a recent visitor to Niue.
Carrying Ron Smart (skipper), Dave Mc- Calister and Rob Alexander, she left Alderney Island in the English Channel in 1974 for a round-the-world trip. While at Niue they helped to put the mooring buoy "back on station", after it was damaged by a tug in April. After Niue, the Yolanta was to visit Vavau. • FAIR WINDS, 43 ft wooden yawl, called at Niue recently. She was on the way from New Zealand to the home port of Los Angeles. On board were skipper Chuck Rockwell, Mark Weber, Cathy Stanaway, NZ and Magdalena Zschokke, Switzerland,
• THESIS 111, a Nicholson SS, fit glass sloop, which was at Niue recei was built in England in 1974 for J Gueroult, of Noumea, who called at N for diesel oil, while on the way fr Bora Bora to Suva. The owner plam to sail back to Noumea from Niue Port Vila. • BETTY J, 40 ft yawl, arrived Rarotonga on July 25 from Papeete, B Bora and other Society islands. On bo were owner-skipper Leonard Pratt, wife Betty, and their two sons. Land 17, and Michael, 16. Betty J was b in Hong Kong in 1969 for Mr P when he retired after 42 years as a o mercial and Air Force pilot. The wo circling cruise started from Miami, Flori and so far has taken them to the Be mas, Haiti, Panama, the Galapagos, A quesas, Societies and Cook Islands. N ports of call were to be Pago Pago i Fiji, with a possible call at Suwan en-route. • CHINTA, 32 ft sloop, with Gen brothers, Dr Wolf Muller-Fabian and L Muller-Fabian, arrived at Rarotonga fi Tonga on July 26. They bought the mer racing yacht in Auckland and < verted it for ocean cruising. They ca at New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islar New Hebrides, Fiji including the Group, and Nukualofa. Yachting frie had advised them that their voy would be "impossible" at this time the year, as they are sailing against trade winds, but so far they have b able to do this. Plans are to visit E Bora, Tahiti and Hawaii, sell the sl( there, and continue their travels in US. • TROUBADOR, 41 ft ketch of Gardener design, arrived at Rarotonga August 2 from Bora Bora in four d and under stormsails. On board w owner-captain George Shoaf, his v Lou, and their sons, Doug and John, Shoafs' circumnavigation started fi San Francisco last January and took tl to the Marquesas and most of the
/ Islands. After a fortnight in Raro ja they hoped to call at Samoa, Tonga Fiji, and spend Christmas in Naw land. After that plans are uncertain, they will probably follow the Indian an-Africa-Caribbean route home. » AMAZING GRACE, 24 ft motor ir registered in Vancouver, arrived at ►tonga on August 9 from Papeete i Captain David Boyes and Tim Noot, f hoped to call at Niue next. • FAIR WINDS, 43 ft yawl-rigged ar sailer from Los Angeles, arrived tarotonga from Niue on August 10, the next port of call will be Papeete, board were Captain Charles Rockwell, c Weber and Catherine Stanaway, \mericans, plus two Swiss.
LAUREE SUE, also from Vancouver, r ft sloop-rigged motor sailer arrived farotonga on August 10 from Bora with Captain George Stickneg and ’ Joan, Susan and Loureen Stickneg. was their next call.
WINDJOB, 37 ft ketch registered Portland, Oregon, USA, arrived at tonga from Papeete on August 12 Dirk Van Abkoude and Garland ster. They hope to visit Tonga and ONDINE, 79 ft racing yawl regis- I in New York, arrived at Rarotonga Tahiti on August 14. On board were owner, Mr S. A. (Huey) Long, Cap- Tom Richardson and five crew in ng Miss Shari McCarty from Hawaii, is the cook. This is the fourth yacht he same name that Mr Long has >d, and the present one was built 15 months ago. The vessel has taken in the Transpac race, gaining second , and when racing carries a crew ). Plans were to call at Niue, Vavau Fiji, then to South Africa for the town to Rio de Janeiro yacht race.
BORN FREE, 60 ft yawl-rigged r sailer, arrived at Rarotonga from Pago, American Samoa, on August oound for Tahiti. On board were men Warren K. Hanly (captain).
Id A. Johnson, Thomas G. Baehr and a Neuteboom.
PREVAIL, 35 ft sloop, recently left i for Hong Kong. Owner-skipper Poulte is making the trip on his KYSTENS PERLE, 25 ft 7 in. sloop d folk sloop, arrived at Rarotonga uly 4 from Tahiti carrying Richard ;r (skipper) and David Anderson, sailed from San Diego to the Mar s and Rangiroa. They encountered >eas in the first three weeks, and Defore them under bare pole for days, covering 90 miles one day 100 the next. After Rarotonga they
intend to sail to Tonga and New Zea land. They plan to sell the Kystens Perle in New Zealand and look for work. The yacht was owned by a Dane who gave it its name, which means Pearl of the Coast. • ADASTRA, 42 ft trimaran, called at Samarai recently while on the way to Madang from Port Moresby. She carried Dave Wells (skipper), Dave Donnan, Stan Gomes and Paul Lincoln. • SACHICAZA, 36 ft sloop called at Guam on the way south from Japan to either Samoa or Australia, carrying Yozo Ohiro (skipper), his wife Sachiro Ohiro, and Hayatomo Fumio, Akira Namoto and Fiji Kunio. Before Guam they called at Chichi Jima and Saipan. From Guam they planned to sail to Ponape, where a de cision would be made —Samoa or Aus tralia. • MARLUVA, 44 ft sloop, built at Rhode Island, US, in 1946, arrived at Samarai recently after a trip to Rabaul and Kieta, carrying Andy and Amy Burns. • TYREE 11, 37 ft ketch rigged tri maran, recently passed through Guam after sailing non-stop from Samoa. On board were Charles Burnett and John Fraser (skipper) who have been sailing together in the Pacific for more than a year. The trimaran is named after the valley of Typee on Nukuhiva in the Marquesas. • JOSPHA, 30 ft Tahiti ketch, from Boston, US, was a recent arrival at Samarai. The master is John Kiley. He has been sailng the Jospha since leaving Boston in 1972. • GRETEL, three-master schooner, was an early September arrival in Port Moresby from Vila on a world cruise. She is owned by five Swedes. Gretel sailed from Stockholm about a year ago, and reached the Pacific via Panama Canal.
There were 10 on board at Port Moresby —five Swedes, four Americans and an Australian.
• SOLONG 11, a 34 ft yacht regis tered at Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 26 with skipper Mervyn William Halsey, Fred Halsey, Julie Hodgson and Graeme Hodgson.
Papeete was to be the next port of call. • BABALATCHI, a 45 ft ketch regis tered at Vancouver, arrived at Rarotonga in late June from Papeete with owner skipper Frank Braithwaite, his wife, Pat, their two children Patrick and Joanne, and their dog Jody. They planned to call at Tonga and New Zealand. • TANGALOA, 35 ft yacht, left Syd ney on September 5 on a cruise to Nou mea. Sailing it single-handed was Sydney owner, Dr John Barratt. He expected to be away about a month. • MAIAWA, a sloop with Hal Con way on board and thought to be "some where around New Zealand" is asked to contact Bob Kaufman of 121 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Kills, California 90212 as soon as possible. There's a family problem. • BEYOND, 46 ft high-speed Erikson sloop from Philadelphia, planned to leave Tahiti on September 2 for Newport Beach, California. Jimmy Ballard, an American living in Tahiti, his wife Terii and a crew of two are delivering the boat for owner Bill Packer, who flew home to go into the family business.
Beyond will be put up for sale in New port Beach, as Bill has already ordered a new boat. • DELI Rl US, 43 ft ketch built in France and registered in Panama, arrived in Tahiti on June 25 with owners Jean- Piere and Micheline Hua aboard. The Huas left Marseille in October, 1974, and cruised the Caribbean to Panama, then in the Pacific to the Galapagos, Mar quesas and Tuamotus, before coming to Tahiti. Micheline is a nurse in the clinic in Papeete, and they plan to stay at least a year.