Cruising
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Yachts
• ROMANCE, 90 ft brigantine, one of the few privately-owned, square-rigged sailing ships left in the world, was a recent arrival at Lae. She carried owner Captain Arthur Kimberley, his wife Gloria, and a crew of 16 men and women, some of whom were pay ing crew. Romance is normally based in the Caribbean, where Captain Kimberley uses her to take visitors on 8-day cruises. Since leav ing the Caribbean, Romance called at the Galapagos, Pitcairn, Tuomotus, Marquesas, Society Islands, Samoa. Tokelaus, Fiji, the New Hebrides and the Solomons. On June 21. she headed west out of Lae for Indone sian waters. Captain Kimberley planned to continue through the Indian Ocean, round the Cape of Good Hope and then across the Atlantic to the Caribbean, arriving there in about 12 months. The Romance was used in the film Hawaii, based on a book by James Michener. In the film she was known as the Thetis. • K.G. JESTER, 44V2 ft ketch registered at Hull, England, arrived at Rarotonga on June 9, from Papeete, Moorea and Bora Bora, bound for Tonga, with skipper Leslie Simpson and Joan Simpson. • CALYPSO, 22V$ ft German sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on June 9, from Bora Bora, bound for Aitutaki, Penrhyn and Bora Bora, with single-hander Helmuth Waser of Austria. • CURLEW, 57 ft staysail schooner, arrived at Rarotonga on June 11, from Whangarei. NZ, bound for Tahiti with Americans Geoffrey Finch (captain), David Puthoff, Francis Romer and Alan Thoma, Britisher Lynda Morey and New Zealander Ray Whittenbury. • THYME, 34 ft sloop arrived at Rarotonga from Tauranga, NZ, on June 14, aound for Pago Pago. On board were skipper Douglas D McAlpine, Maurice D. McAlpine, 3rant D McAlpine and Roderick B.
VlcAlpine, all New Zealanders. ® STELLA MARIS, 43 ft yacht and a inverted fishing boat, arrived at Rarotonga rom Auckland on June 14 with three New Zealanders, David John McCormick (captain), 3 McCormick, and J.V. Hogan. The vessel will be used by the Catholic Mission for :hurch work in the Cook Islands. It has a •mall cargo space and it is hoped to catch una on the inter-islands voyages.
• PUFFIN, 30 ft sloop from San Francisco, arrived at Rarotonga on June 3 with owner-captain Donald Walker and his wife, Kathy. Their cruise had taken them to the Marquesas. Tuamotus and Tahiti, and they called at Bora Bora and Aitutaki before reaching Rarotonga. Next ports of call were to be Niue, Tonga, and a possible stop in Fiji before arriving in New Zealand. • CASSANDRA, 31 ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 5, with owner-captain Keith Howe, Maryanne Rear don and Mark Murtach. They are on a Pacific cruise to escape New Zealand's winter and the next port of call was to be Tahiti.
• SAMURAI, yacht, belonging to Richard and Fay Stephens was at Port Vila in June, preparatory to leaving for Santo, the Solomon Islands and "beyond ". The Stephens worked in Port Vila for a short time, two years ago, when they visited in the Wild Lone 11. • LOME BEAVER, 36 ft cutter, from Nelson, NZ, is being offered for sale by George and Eileen Adams, who arrived in her in the New Hebrides. They have now settled in the New Hebrides and are planning to build another boat for use within the group.
They arrived about three years ago, and since
Romance at Lae—Photo:Denis Fisk.
then have cruised through New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, They said they often found sailing in those waters frustrating because of long periods of calm weather, which forced them to use the Lone Beaver's diesel motor to get them from place to place. • MILROSE, 40 ft ketch, arrived recent ly in the New Hebrides from Taiwan, carrying Americans Millard and Rosemary Wooley.
They bought the ketch in Taiwan, then sailed to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomons. After Vila they in tend to sail to Fiji. • BAHLOO, 36 ft Midshipman ketch, which was in Vila for several weeks, was scheduled to leave for Australia about the middle of June.
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were in Vila in June waiting for favourable weather before leaving for Fiji. • TWO SISTERS, 32 ft sloop, arrived at Niue Island from New Zealand on June 3, sailed single-handed by proud new owner, Peter Ell, commodore of the Niue Island Blue Water Yacht Club. Peter believes he is the first to sail single-handed, direct from New Zealand to Niue. In a letter to PIM he raved about PlM's May cover which showed a blonde beauty garbed in the Niue Island Blue Water Yacht Club's shirt. • WANDERLURE, a small yacht carry ing lone sailor Arthur Hammond, was a re cent arrival off Pitcairn Island. He stayed at Patcairn for a week and then left for Mangareva. • AQUILA, 32 ft cutter from San Francisco, arrived at Rarotonga on June 4 from Bora Bora, bound for Pago Pago. On board were owner-captain Jock A. Fugitt, his wife, Karolyn, and daughter, Kathy. They left San Francisco in October, 1975, and called at the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Papeete, Huahine and Raiatea, before Rarotonga. • KRAKA, 44 ft Danish sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on June 7 from Papeete and Bora Bora with Captain Lars Jensen, Jan Astrom and Juan G. Jaime. They had called at Galapagos and the Marquesas and were bound for Niue and Tonga. • STUFF, California 2/46 ketch, arrived at Nukualofa in June carrying Michael and Diana Rabinmeier, the owners, and Jane and 4ndy Bell. They left Los Angeles in December, 1975, and called at Hawaii, Fan ning Island, Western Samoa, Niue and Vavau aefore Nukualofa. After Nukualofa they alanned to visit Suva and then sail to New Zealand. • The fifth Auckland-Suva yacht race vill start on April 30, 1977. It is intended to sail the race in four divisions 3 IOR iivisions competing for the Suva Gold Cup md the mini-rating division for a trophy.