Cruising
pp. 59-60 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
• ASHYMAKAIHKEN, yacht, arrived December at Port Moresby from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, via the Caribbean and the Pacific. She is owned by Ashley and Brenda Russell, both 32. They left Fort Lauderdale about two years ago.
From Port Moresby they planned to sail to Australia, then across the Indian Ocean, through the Mediterranean and across the Atlantic Ocean to Canada, where they live. Ashley, an Australian journalist, left his native country 10 years ago to live in Canada. One of his Australian ports of call will probably be Fremantle so that he can visit h's parents in Perth. • DUMEKLAMMAR, 10 metre grey hound yacht, left Port Moresby late in November for Germany, via Suez. The yacht, skippered by owner Hermmans Heinz,, of Ratingen, Germany, is on a world tour, and expects to be home by July, 1977. He has a crew of two, American Randy Baier, who joined in Suva, and Australian Paul Brant. • ARMINEL, 94 ft ketch owned by Michael Morehart, 26, of Santa Barbara, California, is spending the hurricane sea son in French Polynesia, after sailing from Ft Lauderdale, Florida through the Panama Canal and visiting the Galapagos and Marquesas. With Michael aboard the Arminel were Susan Calkins of San Francisco, Brian Murphy, Donald Carroll and Sharon Dittner. The Arminel was built in Southampton in 1910 for an English peer and had no engine for 50 years. Miqhael has been rebuilding her as they sail. From Tahiti their plans will carry them to Tonga and New Zealand. • CYGNET, 30 ft ketch from Hawaii, left Hawaii in July and arrived in Tahiti in September, after visiting the Mar quesas and Tuamotus. Aboard were Harm Koster and Lea Mizuta, who planned to sail to the Societies before heading westward to New Zealand after the hurricane season. • EDWARD RICHMOND, 60 ft blade ferro-cement ketch from Hilo, Hawaii, is in Tahiti after visiting Mexico and the Marquesas. Paul and Wendy Pollitt and their son lan, 8 years, plan to remain in Frenqh Polynesia until April, before continuing their circumnavigation, • MESSIAH, 46 ft Cross trimaran from San Diego, owned by Stan and
Kathy Gollaher, went on the reef in Raiatea on November 4, as a result of strong currents and not enough wind.
There was no engine aboard to save the yacht from the wave that brought her destruction. The Gollahers sold her to a Tahitian for $5OO. Also aboard at the time were Chris Briscoe of Santa Barbara, Tom Armour and Karen Crie of San Diego. Stan's plans were to return home and build another boat. • WEST WIND, modified Piver Tri maran 25, registered in Vancouver and owned by single-hander Heinz Kuntze mann, arrived in Tahiti after being stripped in Mexico of all the food, uten sils, knives and anything of value, and after losing her rudder at sea 300 miles from Nukuhiva, Marquesas. Heinz put West Wind up for sale in Papeete for $5,500 in sail-away condition. His plans were to return to Los Angeles to build another boat. • BLACK DUKE, Cheoy-Lee Offshore 40 yawl, left Honolulu on December 8, 1975, bound for the Line Islands, with owner-skipper Edmond K. Slaven, LCDR USN ret, and his wife Opal aboard. Cdr Slaven did his last tour of duty with the Navy in Rota, Spain. Commander Slaven is a naval aviator and also a radio Ham (HP!-AX). After spending Christmas at Christmas Island, plans call for an extended visit to the Marquesas, Tua motus and Papeete for Bastile Day, 1976.
The Slavens left San Francisco in Novem ber, 1969, spent two years in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico, a year in Central America, then Cocos Island and the Gala pagos. They sailed back to Panama, up the west coast of Central America to Nicaragua, then to Hilo, Hawaii. After wintering in the Hawaiian Islands, they are off again with the Mediterranean and
their old home in Spain as their ultimate destination. "We are hoping that all of our old cruising friends will see this in PIAA and we can once again renew the old friendships that make cruising such a meaningful way of life", writes Cdr Slaven. • DAUNTLESS, 36 ft plywood/fibre glass ketch, with Colin and Sandy White of Auckland (NZ) on board arrived in Honolulu in October. They left Santa Catalina, California on September 18, and, after leaving Oahu, they plan to stop at Lanai before heading for the South Paci fic and their home in Auckland. • KWAIE TEK, 53 ft Spencer ketch (skipper/ owner Albert P. Morrow of Vancouver, BC) arrived in Honolulu in November after a two-year cruise of the South Pacific. Also on board were Dan Borman of Eugene, Oregon, Jefferson Menze, of Honolulu, and Mary Ann Page of Oakland, California. Since leaving Vancouver in September, 1973, Kwaie Tek has called at US, Mexican, and Costa Rican ports, the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, and the Societies. She has now left Honolulu for San Diego. • RASCAL, 28 ft wood/fibreglass sloop, skippered by Rex McDowell of Wellington (NZ) arrived in Honolulu on November 18. She left the Marquesas in September and stopped at Hilo before continuing on to Oahu. • FREEDOM, 45 ft fibreglass ketch, with Don McNeil, and Scott Morris of Los Angeles, and Qhris Bliscoe of Santa Barbara, California, left Papeete in No vember and arrived in Honolulu on December 17.