Cruising
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• KAWAMEE, 47 ft American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on November 8 from Tonga and Bora Bora with Captain Rockne H. Johnson and a mixed crew of nine. Kawamee left for Mangaia and Tahiti on November 12. • UNBOUND, 35 ft trimaran regis tered at Sydney, arrived at Rarotonga on November 19 from Bora Bora and Aitutaki. On board were Captain John C. Murray, an Australian, South African Florence Hobbs, Australian Martin Doyle, and Canadians Lorraine Armor and Linda Benson. They sailed on November 20 for Auckland and Sydney. • SACHIKAZE, a Japanese yacht from Yokosuka reached Noumea late October after sailing through Saipan, Guam, Tuvalu (Ellice) and Fiji. Mr Yusohira, to gether with three men and one woman aboard, then planned to sail home via Australia, New Guinea and Taiwan. 0 MIYAKODORI, 54 ft Japanese owned yacht, was a recent visitor to Suva after taking part in the Los Angeles- Honolulu yacht race, in which it was placed fourth. The yacht carries a crew of 11; the master is 28-years-old Muneo Masui. The Miyakodori is only about six months old. The aluminium hull was built in Tokyo to an American design.
The interior fittings were completed in Los Angeles. The yacht has a theoretical cruising speed of 14 knots in a 35-knot wind. The Miyakodori sailed from Suva for Sydney, via New Caledonia, to take part in the annual Sydney-Hobart yacht race. • ALISIO, 40 ft wood sloop, with Frank McCarthy of Santa Barbara, and crewman Steven Cassella of Dobbs Ferry, New York on board arrived in Honolulu on October after a 26-day sail from Papeete, which they left on September 7. • TAREMA, 21 ft wood sloop, was single-handed by Gary Adams of Hawaii, from Papeete to Hilo in 25 days. He left Papeete on June 4 and arrived in Hilo on June 29. After spending the summer months in the outer islands he returned to Oahu in October. • SOLAR WIND, 48 ft fibreglass sloop with Berle Crisp of La Jolla, California and his crew, William Chapman and Steve Pereiras of Stockton (Calif) Neil Rabinowitz of Boston (Mass) and John
Heckes of Sacramento, made a scream ing 12-day passage from Papeete to Honolulu. They left Papeete on October 1 and arrived in Honolulu on October 13. • MERIDIAN 11, 40 ft wood/flbreglass ketch, with Bill, Dawn and Simon Kitch ing, all of Auckland (NZ) left Auckland on May 2. After stops at Rarotonga, Papeete, Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, they left Bora Bora on August 25 and arrived in Hilo, Hawaii on September 15. From there they stopped at Maui before arriv ing at the Hawaii Yacht Club on October 16, 1975. 9 HOKUTO, a 25 ft wooden sloop with skipper Kazumasa Yamamoto, of Numazu city, Japan, and crew Yoshihiro Yamashita, Tomio, Koizumi and Jiro Miyabe, left Japan in July and arrived in Honolulu in October after calling at Alameda, California. They planned to leave Honolulu on November 30 for Fanning Island and the South Pacific before returning to Japan. • SONIC, a 60 ft auxiliary yawl and one of the best equipped yachts ever to visit Rarotonga, arrived there on November 25, from Papeete. On board were owner-captain Arlo Nish, his wife, Margaret, their children Sandra, Gayle, and Daryl, and friends William Boughman and John Hartigan. Sonic left San Diego, California, last August and Pacific ports of call included the Marquesas and Tua motus. Mr Nish plans to spend the hurri cane season in New Zealand then sail to Australia, the Pacific Islands, Indo nesia, the Mediterranean, and home, thus completing a circumnavigation. The vessel is fitted with radar and a weather map making machine that charts positions of storms and rough seas and gives wind speeds and directions, the height of the waves and other vital information. A water condenser supplies the crew with ample fresh water, and there is complete air conditioning, a showerbath, refriger ator and deep freezer. • NIGHTINGALE, 31 ft American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Suva on October 26 with Robert Patton (captain) and Joanna Whipp, a British citizen. They sailed for Papeete in early November. • I LOVE YOU 11, 57 ft catamaran from Bellingham, Washington, arrived in Tahiti on October 4 with five men and one woman aboard. They were: owner Don Glidden, former pilot for Western Airlines; his son Scott, 19, Ann Evans, Bim Seegers, Hank Gratten, all of Malibu; and Ann's step-father Marcel Barel of Switzer land and Las Vegas. Also aboard was the ship's dog, Yoshi. I Love You II was built by Don and some friends and was designed by James Warren, who spent many years in Polynesia studying the out riggers. The 23 ft wide catamaran is
built in outrigger style and carries the Polynesian motif even further by carving the bows into tikis and painting the rongo rongo writings from Easter Island's statues on the exterior. They planned to spend the hurricane season in French Polynesia before sailing to the Cook Islands.
O KLARABORG, schooner from Gothenborg, Sweden, arrived in Tahiti mid-October and went into the boatyard almost immediately, as they were vir tually sinking. The 116-year-old boat left Panama in July for the Galapagos, but couldn't get there, so headed for the Marquesas and arrived after 88 days at sea and running two bilge pumps 24 hours a day. The owner and captain, Ove Linner, 32, left Sweden in 1967 and sailed the Klaraborg around the world. This is the second circumnavigation. The ship's dog, Klara, has been on board for seven years. They hoped to be in New Zealand by Christmas. ® MARY ANN 11, 36 ft Cheoy Lee Clipper ketch from Los Angeles, arrived in Tahiti on October 6 for the hurricane season, before sailing on to the Cooks, Samcas and Fiji. Owner lan Holland, Peter Zeiler, Dick Barbara, all of Los Angeles, and Scott Vuillemot of Hawaii left Los Angeles in July and sailed to Nukuhiva in 41 days, fighting winds and currents all the way, then stopped in Rangiroa before sailing to Tahiti. © MOCKINGBIRD, Hershoff 28 ft ketch owned by Tom Cassidy of Macon, Georgia, and Mary Phillips of San Diego, left San Diego two years ago and sailed to Mexico and Centra! America, then left Panama in May of 1975 and went to the Galapagos and Marquesas, before arriving in Tahiti in late September. Their plans were to remain in Tahiti until April and then sail to Hawaii. ® PUFFIN, 30 ft Rawson sloop made in Redmond, Washington and owned by Don and Kathy Walker of Alemeda, Cali fornia, arrived in Tahiti on October 4 and planned to stay in the Societies until April. They left San Francisco on June 7 and crossed to Nukuhiva in 39 days with no vane. From the Marquesas they visited the Tuamotus before sailing to Tahiti.
Their plans are to visit the Cooks, Tonga and Fiji and hope to arrive in New Zea land by the end of 1976. • FAIRWINDS, 13 metre yacht, drag ged her anchor and broke up at Pitcairn Island late in November. The two crew, Earle Lipscombe and Irene Jans, were ashore at the time. • VANESSA, 36 ft sloop owned by Jerry Sauzier, 40, of Mauritius, who has
sailed some 60,000 miles, always ending up back in Tahiti, was in Tahiti again in November, having repairs done on his boat that he plans to sail around Cape Horn in early 1977. In the mean time, Jerry plans to sail Vanessa back to Bora Bora, where he charters her to the Club Mediterranee guests for trips around the lagoon. ® LA PAZ, 35 ft wood sloop carrying Leland and Shirley Richey left New Zea land in March and arrived at the Hawaii Yacht Club on September 25 after stops in the South Pacific. * KILA KILA, 45 ft ferrocement ketch with Roger and Beth Bath, of Honolulu, plus the crew Jody and Casey Cox of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, spent 48 days sailing from Pago Pago to Honolulu, leaving Pago on August 14, and arriving at the Hawaii Yacht Club on October 1. ® LINTIE, 36 ft cutter, carrying owner skipper Tony Murdoch went on a reef near New Caledonia recently. Murdoch left England in 1963 to sail the seas.
For company, he installed a piano, which helped him to while away the lonely hours. After going on the reef he took to a small boat, and spent 10 hours rowing ashore. It looked as though he had lost Untie, and his piano. ® SOL-Y-MAR, 45 ft cutter registered in Sydney, arrived at Rarotonga on De cember 1, from New York, *he Bahamas, Jamaica, Panama and the Marquesas. On board were owner-skipper Australian Ken Beashel, wife Barbara, their children Colin (16), Joanne (13), Adam (7), and friend Leon Tringham. They planned to sail direct to Sydney, reaching there, hopefully, by Christmas. Mr Beashel has his own boat-building business in Aus tralia and was employed as a professional boat builder in New York for 2? years with a team of 45 Portuguese. He did not learn Portuguese, so he called his yacht "Sun and Sea" in Spanish. © DIOGENES, 50 ft yawl registered in Portland, Oregon, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on December 1 bound for Auckland. On board were Gustaf Wollmar, captain; John Goring, Andrew Price and Penny Sgeele.