Yachts
pp. 65-67 · Read in the full issue
Cruising
• ALTAIR, Alberg 30ft sloop from Port Arthur, Texas, sailed into Tahiti on May 19 for a month's visit en route around the world. Owner Terrell Adkisson, Jr, a school teacher from Beaumont, Tex as, and Leo Singleton 111 of La Place, La, left Texas on Nov 5, visiting the dry Tortugas and Bahamas before sailing to Panama and the Marquesas. The two men entertain friends in their ports of call by playing the guitar and flute. Their next stops will in clude American Samoa and Fiji. • CORYPHAENA, 37ft double-ended Carol ketch from San Diego, planned to leave Tahiti in June for Rarotonga and westward. John and Mary Mathias bought their boat in France in 1967 and left the following year for the Caribbean and Florida.
In August, 1974 they sailed through the Panama Canal down the coast of South America to Ecuador, then on to the Galapagos for a month before arriv ing in the Marquesas where John got hepatitis. • ERYX 11, 2-masted 80ft square-sail schooner designed and built in England, has been cruising the islands of French Polynesia since she arrived in Tahiti late in 1975. Owner Michel Feuga, formerly a charter boat captain in the Mediterranean on BLUE TROUT, bought Eryx II two years ago to sail around the world. With Michel is his brother Pierre,
girlfriend Colette, Reynald Berthe, also of France, and Lea Adamson and Kathy Cleveland of San Francisco, • NEW HORIZONS, a most unusual 60ft ferro-cement ketch from Vancouver, built and sailed by the "Fearsome Foursome" bachelors Ben Fraleigh, Mike Campbell, Don Beadle and Fred Bulechowsky, left Tahiti for Hawaii in late April, following a visit of several months in French Polynesia With them in Tahiti were Gwen Corn field, Darleen Woodward and Audrey Byers, all of Vancouver. New Horizons was built in five years while the foursome continued their jobs, and was finally launched in April, 1974 She carries 580 gallons of diesel and 380 gallons of water. Power is supplied by a 7.5 kw Onan generator plant. There is a Panasonic microwave oven, deep-freeze and a clothes dryer aboard. • LA MIOCHE, Mariner 31ft ketch from Balboa, Canal Zone, arrived in Tahiti mid-May for a visit through^*>ie Bastille celebrations in July.
Owners Bill and Karen Woods left the Panama Canal on January 29 and sailed to Tahiti by way of the Cocos Islands, the Galapagos and Marquesas, where Bill became ill. They lost their forestay 600 miles from the Marquesas and jury-rigged her. They planned to visit the Samoas. Gilberts and Marshall Islands before returning home • MANDORLA, 38ft Morgan-designed Columbia sloop from Portland, reported in the May issue, left Tahiti on March 14 for Hawaii by way of Bora Bora.
Owner Geoffrey Wilson flew home because of hepatitis he'd contracted. Kaarin, with a new cap tain, Ron Zalesky of California, and Jeanne Longfelder of Seattle, were 10 days out at sea
when Kaarin became dangerously ill with hepatitis Many ham operators came to their aid and dramatic air-sea rescue by the French Navy follow ed When Kaarin was dismissed from the hospita they all flew home. Mandorla was left in Tahiti. • MARY ANN 11, 36ft Cheoy Lee Clippe ketch from Los Angeles, left Tahiti on March 19 fo Moorea and Hilo. Owner lan Holland, who had beei in French Polynesia for several months, was single handing his boat when the back stay broke. He jury rigged her and sailed the 700 miles back to Tahit for repairs. He left again around April 10. • TAKAROA, 30ft Tahiti ketch from Brittany has been put up for sale in Tahiti by owner Jean- Michel Garrec. He sailed Takaroa to Tahiti from France, arriving in October, 1975. with Laurie Leavitt of Colorado aboard. • VARDA, famous 70ft brigantine built and owned by author William A Robinson of Massachusetts and Tahiti, left Tahiti on May 19 for New Zealand, where she will be refitted and equipped. Launched in 1942, Robinson sailed Varua to Tahiti in 1945 and Tahiti became home for them both. Robinson, who has written several books about his voyages on his sailboats, turned Varua over to a group of scientists working for Marine Environmental Research Inc. from Kittery Point, Maine. She will participate in their research projects by acting as a floating laboratory as they sail around the world. Sailing Varua to New Zealand are Russ Nilson, 24, the ship's captain, and Jennifer Brown, Ron Harelstad, Hugh Scott and John Brady. • PEREGRINE, 37ft American catamaran registered in San Diego, arrived at Rarotonga on
May 14 from Papeete, bound for Niue. On board were Richard Jensen (captain), Trevor Davies and C. Robinette, • NOMAD, 38ft cutter, arrived at Rarotonga on May 21 with owner-captain Edwin Arnold, his wife, Mary, and their four children, Chris, Phil, Geoff and Sonia. Their circumnavigation started from New York and to-date has taken them to the Mar quesas and Tahiti. Next port of call was to be Samoa. • TARA NUI 11, 29ft cutter registered at Whangarei, NZ, arrived at Rarotonga on May 21 with Brian R. Wintle and Jill Goodwin. Next ports of call are Aitutaki and the Tokelau Islands. • DIFFERENT DRUMMER, 39ft 9ins ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on May 24 from Auckland bound for Honolulu via Tahiti with Captain Robert Rediske (US), Rosa Harold (NZ), Gloria Guest (Australia) and Jeff Hassell (US). The yacht is registered in Honolulu. • RUNNING WIND, 39ft ketch registered in Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga on May 25 from Papeete and Bora Bora bound for Auckland. On board were Captain Douglas W. Jonstone, Rosemany Johnstone and Judith Wrightson, all New Zealanders. • SUPER SHRIMP, 18 ft sloop registered in London, left Rarotonga on May 8 for Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Hebrides and Australia with owner captain Shane Acton and his Swiss companion. Iris Derungs, who joined the yacht in Panama. They had spent the hurricane season in Rarotonga. Mr Acton had sailed from the UK to the Canary Islands, Bar bados, Panama, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands and Tahiti, and he believes that Super Shrimp will be the smallest sailing vessel ever to have sailed from London to Australia. • PALAWAN, 68 ft ketch registered at North Haven, Maine, USA, arrived at Rarotonga on May 8 from Bora Bora, bound for Fiji then back to the States. The vessel's owner is Thomas J. Watson Jnr and the captain is Paul Wolther. • ONZA, 56 ft 7 in. motor sailer registered in Honolulu arrived at Rarotonga on April 26 from Papeete and bound for Niue. On board were Lawence Horowitz (captain), Vera Krivonos, Timothy Roger Revercomb and Frantisek Spillar. • BLUE WATER, 81 ft 7 in. motor launch registered at Portland, Oregon, anchored at Rarotonga from Tahiti and Bora Bora on May 2 with Captain Sidney Lee Browning, Steven Ellacott, Oscar B. Polk and Janet Ann Lawrenson. When bound for Rarotonga Blue Water called at Mitiaro and borrowed two high-voltage batteries, needed to build up the vessel’s electrical system. The yacht is well-equipped with radar gear and radio com munications and has three carpeted lounges, ac commodation for 10 cabin passengers, a captain's suite, a deck lounge, a small cargo space and an automatic pilot. The next port of call was uncertain. • CIRCE, 27 ft cutter registered at San Fran cisco arrived at Rarotonga on May 2 from Bora
Bora, bound for Pago Pago, with Robert Rau and Patricia Patton, both US citizens. • TYEE, 44 ft ketch registered at Seattle, Washington arrived at Rarotonga on May 2 from Papeete and Raiatea with Captain W.C. Whipple and Betty Whipple. They were headed for Niue Island. • THE EST, 36 ft sloop with single-hander American Bertrand Lane, dropped anchor at Rarotonga from Papeete on May 4. He was bound for Suwarrow and Pago Pago. • CHRISTOPHE, 13 metre ketch registered in Cannes, France, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on May 5. On board were Captain Jean Georges Colleuil, his wife. Maryse, and their child. Next port of call was to be in Tonga. • BIRD OF DAWNING, 37 ft trimaran, arriv ed at Rarotonga on May 6, from Auckland with Captain Gary N. Dierking and Avis Anne Burnett, both US citizens and bound for Tahiti. • LANCASTER IV, the English 60ft alloy aux iliary ketch, with captain/navigator Fred Rush and a crew of four, arrived in March at Papeete direct from Panama. It is intended to cruise the South Pacific Islands for the next three years before retur ning to her home port, Gibraltar. • LAUREE SUE, 37 ft sloop-rigged motor sailer registered at Vancouver, arrived at Rarotonga on May 7, from Whangarei, NZ, with owner-captain George Stickney, his wife Joan, and their two daughters, Laureen and Susan. The Canadian family had been cruising for about two years and planned to visit Penrhyn and Honolulu. They called at Rarotonga Last August from Bora Bora. • AMAZING GRACE, 24 ft motor sailer, came to Rarotonga on May 8, from Whangarei, NZ, bound for Bora Bora. On board were Canadian Cap tain David R. Boyes and Britisher Susan J. Cox. The yacht called at Rarotonga last September from Papeete, then left for Tonga. • PALANTIR, 30 ft 6 in yacht registered in Dundee, Scotland, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete and Bora Bora on May 10, with the Rorke family David (captain), Jean, Kirsty, and Catherine. • RESOLVE, 40 ft 7 in American yacht, anchored at Rarotonga from Papeete on May 10, Niue-bound, with Stacy G. Carkhuff 111 (master) and Victoria and David Carkhuff. • TABITHA, 39 ft 6in yacht registered in New York, sailed into Avarua, Rarotonga from Papeete on May 11, bound for Niue, with Captain James Moore and mate Carol Moore. • STORMVOGEL, 73 ft ketch registered in Amsterdam, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on May 13, bound for Tonga. On board were Australian Captain Malcolm Horsley, Katherine Auberg (French), George Westbrook (American), Gavin Neikle and David Williams, both South Africans, Marco Tognella (Italian) and Maria fognella (Swiss). The Tognellas left the yacht at Rarotonga. • SOFIA, top sail schooner, was a May arrival at Lautoka in the course of a round-the-world trip, oarrying a group of young Americans and Swedes, Fhe 55-year-old schooner is 90 ft on deck and 120 ft to the end of the jib boom. The party comprises seven men, four women and a three-year-old girl.
Fhe captain is Evan Logan, 31. The schooner will :ruise through the Fiji Islands before leaving for the Mew Hebrides. • C'EST LA VIE, a yacht with W. Stewart on aoard, has left Mackay in Queensland making a solo /oyage to New Zealand and the Cook Islands.
Hokule'a, the Polynesian canoe modelled on the ancient craft, arrived in Tahiti on June 4 after sailing 5000km (3000miles) from the island of Maui in Hawaii in 35 days to prove that the ancient Polynesians were capable of navigating over long distances in their canoes using only the stars and other natural aids for navigation. Dr. David Lewis of Canberra, the well-known lone Antartic voyager, was one of the navigators aboard Hokule'a, a 60ft. double-hulled canoe illustrated above from a painting by Herb Kane a part-Hawiian and organiser of the project. Hokule'a now faces the return voyage.