Cruising
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Yachts
• MAJANDO, 40 ft trimaran registered at Wellington, NZ, arrived at Rarotonga from Wellington on July 15 on a three to four months Pacific cruise and bound for Papeete.
On board were owner-skipper Douglas Barry- Martin who designed and built the yacht (with help from friends), Rick McKenzie, Mark Fenton, Maurice Saunderson and John Leniston. An unusual feature of the tri's design are the canted outrigger hulls which give increased stability and a more efficient weather helm. • WANDERER IV, 46 ft ketch registered at Southampton, UK, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete and Bora Bora on July 14 with owner-captain Eric Hiscock and his wife, Susan. Mr Hiscock, a well known author of books on sailing, was in Rarotonga in June, 1960, in his previous yacht, WANDERER 111. The Hiscocks left in Wanderer IV for Fiji and New Zealand on July 20. • SEATRAIN, 31 ft ketch registered in Los Angeles, arrived at Rarotonga on July 19 from Papeete, bound for Tonga or ith James and Linda Godber. They had caneu at Honolulu, Bora Bora, Raiatea and Huahine. • SOLENT DOVE, 20ft Bins sloop from Cowes, Isle of Wight, arrived at Rarotonga on July 19 with Peter Barnes and Valerie Bouladon. Their last port of call was Bora Bora and they were bound for Niue Island. • QUINQUEREME, 42 ft Buchanan design wood ketch built in 1963 in the United Kingdom, left England in August, 1975, with New Zealanders Rod Moody, Pat McLean, Julia Brooke-White, and 5-year-old Echo Brooke-White. After visiting the Mar quesas and Tuamotus, they arrived in Tahiti mid-June with plans to stay in French Polynesia until the end of July, then continue their trip home to New Zealand. • REGENTAG, 60ft wooden gaff rigged ketch built in 1910 in Sicily as a salt and sand cargo ship, left Venice in August, 1975, for New Zealand. She arrived in Tahiti on June 24 for a three-month visit with Jacqueline and Hoest Wachter making the delivery for owner Freidensreich Hundertwasser, a famous Austrian artist who is going to New Zealand to live. The 40 ton boat was purchased 10 years ago by Hundertwasser and completely remodelled.
The colours of Regentac, which means rainy day in German, reflect the art of the owner there are brown and white stripped sails, a
red topsail flies on the mainmast and a blue sail on the mizzen, while the boat is painted various colors. • SUZY Q, 1938 Alden ketch from Portland, Oregon, left Coos Bay, Oregon in December, 1975, with owner Omar Hansen singlehanding. A mountain-climber who has opened new trails in Alaska and the northwest US Omar sailed to the Marquesas and Tuamotus before arriving in Tahiti in June. His plans were to cruise French Polynesia then go to New Zealand and Australia. • TROUBADOR, a 41 ft Imperial ketch from San Francisco, spent a short time in Tahiti in transit from New Zealand to Hawaii on a voyage that has taken her crew from California to the Marquesas, Tuamotus, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa, then on to New Zealand where they stayed several months. The Shoaf family of Jug, Lou, sons Doug and John arrived in Tahiti for their second visit in May. From there Lou and John flew home for the wedding of daughter Diane. Jug, Doug and two crew members Clay Forbes and Charlie Peet were returning Troubador to Hawaii via the Tuamotus.
• Trimaran Pistachio. 55 Ft, Was
at Lautoka recently in the course of a round the-world cruise, carrying owner Robert Law, his wife Marge and dog Salty. Mr Law is an aircraft pilot from California. Before arriving in Fiji the trimaran cruised in American Samoa and Wallis Island waters. She is made of fibreglass and latex foam. • FIREBIRD, 85 ft clipper, was in Fiji in July carrying a crew of four, including skipper Bob Bucknell. The clipper was built in Wisconsin for Mr Sam Rehnborg, and cost more than SUSI million. She has a 320 hp diesel engine, a 320 kw generator, radio and radar. • LUTE SONG 11, 38 ft cutty hunk, arrived at Port Moresby in July from Vila, en route to Bali, carrying David and Ann Harris.
The yacht sailed from England for Spain, and cruised through various islands in the Atlan tic before arrival in the Pacific. • WILLIWAW, 31 ft American hydrofoil trimaran, arrived at Rarotonga from Auckland on June 23 with David Keiper, master, and Chris Cinders, and left for Bora Bora, Tahiti and Honolulu on June 29. • CONTENT, 47 ft American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga on June 22 from Pago Pago. On board were owner-captain Tom Geary, four of his family and D. Mead and G.P. Lewis all men. They left for Bora Bora on June 30. • ODYSSEY, 27 ft American sloop, anchored at Rarotonga on June 17 from Bora Bora with owner-captain Gary Moore and Kirsten Moore and sailed for Niue on July 1, • SOUTHERN CROSS, 41 ft American ketch, is at Rarotonga, arriving from Bora Bora with owner-skipper Charles N. Lewis
and six crew, including his wife and two children. • DRUMMER, 41 ft American ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Christmas Island on June 19 with owner-skipper Bernard Florcke, his wife and two children. Ten days later they sailed for Papeete. • MUD SLIDE SLIM, 34 ft 5 ins British trimaran bound for Niue, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on June 30 with master, Richard Crowe, Mrs Glenis Crowe and Peter Barber. • SEA FEVER, 40 ft ketch registered at Honolulu, arrived at Rarotonga on July 7 from Pago Pago with owner-captain Ron Cox and his wife, Linda. Next port of call is Papeete, then back home to Hawaii after completing their Pacific cruise. • MERCATOR, 43 ft Canadian ketch registered at Victoria, called at Rarotonga on July 10 from Papeete and Bora Bora with Captain Douglas Barron and Maicreen Ab bott. They were bound for Niue. • ATEA, 34ft Bins Canadian ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on July 11, bound for Samoa. On board were Arthur Gooding (captain), Pat Gooding and Richard Minogue. • MANATHINE, 41 ft Canadian ketch, also arrived at Rarotonga on July 10 from Tahiti, bound for Fiji and possibly Tonga, with skipper Roderick Knight, Isobel and Michael Knight, and Margaret Craig. • HOLOKIKI, 37 ft sloop registered in Honolulu, arrived at Rarotonga on July 12 from Hilo, Hawaii, with James and Kamuela Ray. Next ports of call were to be Suwarrow and Pago Pago. • CARCHARIAS, 53 ft auxiliary sloop built in England in 1969 and owned by John and Peggy Grey of Vancouver, arrived in Tahiti on June 24 for a short visit before con tinuing a trip around the world. Thus far, they have visited numerous countries around the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara, cruised the Mediterranean for two years, crossed the Atlantic to Barbados in 1973 and sailed to Hawaii through the Panama Canal in 1974.
Enroute to Hawaii they went through Hurricane Francesca. After a brief visit back to Vancouver they returned to Hawaii and picked up two friends, Harris and Molly Turner, and sailed to the Marquesas and Tuamotus. Andre Parashidis of Greece was also on board when the Carcharias sailed into Tahiti. • PEGASUS, 43 ft double-ended ketch, arrived at Port Moresby in July from Australia and moored at the Papua Yacht Club. On board were owner, Jerry Fitch, his wife Helen, and sons Gerald, Robert, Lloyd and Eric. The ketch was built at Detroit in 1973 by the owner, to a William Atkin design. Indonesia was the next country on the Pegasus's itinerary • VOORDEWIND, 32 ft yacht, after
two years in the South Pacific, was a recent arrival at Port Moresby from New Zealand.
Owner Laurent Velleman is sailing single handed round the world. He built the yacht, which was Atkin designed, in Belgium in 1970. His next calls were to be in Indonesia. • BESS, 34 ft gaff ketch, built in Nor way in 1930, was a recent arrival in Port Moresby, carrying Dieter and Heidrun Wassermann. The Bess, which arrived from Vila, is on a round-the-world cruise, which started in South Africa in 1973. After Port Moresby, Bess will sail to the US Trust Territory. • ERIC THE RED, 30 ft junk rigged yacht, sailed single-handed by Donald Ridler, arrived at Port Moresby. He built the yacht, which was designed by John T. Rowland, at Bradford, England, in 1970 out of old floor boards and scrap lumber at a cost of less than £3OO. She has sailed across the Atlantic twice. • CYPRIAIMA, 43 ft auxiliary Bermu dan cutter, arrived at Port Moresby recently from Noumea, carrying owner Rich Brendlinger. The yacht, designed by Robert Clark, was built in Holland in 1965. After Port Moresby, the Cypriana was scheduled to sail through Torres Strait to the Seychelles, South Afric and the Caribbean. • AMATUANA, 38 ft ketch-rigged yacht, arrived recently at Port Moresby from Cairns, carrying Tom Allwood (owner) Merril Reeves and Margo McDiamod. The owner built the Amatuana in Vancouver in 1970. He had a word of praise for the amenities at the Papua Yacht Club and for the friendliness of the club management and members.