Cruising
pp. 74-76 · Read in the full issue
Yachts
Tonga played host to a number of visiting yachts recently, some of them calling at Nukualofa and Neiafu, and others at Neiafu only. The visitors included: • KRAKA, (Denmark), carrying Lars Aby Jensen (skipper), Jan Olov Astrom, and Juan Gaddiel Jaime arrived from Rarotonga, on the way to Suva. • BOOMERANG, (Belmont, Newcastle, NSW) with A. G. (Burgin (skipper), G. L. Ban brook, J. H. Henderson and K. W. Humphrey, arrived from Suva, and sailed a few days later for Lautoka. • SUPER SHRIMP, (England), carrying Shane J. Acton (skipper) and Iris Derungs, arrived from Niue and left for Suva. • ONZA, (US), with Lawrence Horrowitz (skipper), Tiu Renercomb and Vera Krivonos, arrived from Niue and left for Suva. • VERSATILE, (Jersey Island), with Geraw Garioud (skipper), Michele Garioud and Gilles Lecuyer, arrived from Rarotonga and left for Noumea. • MORNING LIGHT (US), with George
Greenough (skipper) and Chris Brock arrived from the Cook Islands and sailed for the New Hebrides. • TANGAROA TORU (Canada), with Ken (skipper) and Robyn Robertson arrived from Niue and sailed for Suva. • ODYSSEY (US), with Gary J. Moore (skipper) and Kirsten Moore arrived from Niue and sailed for Suva. • AUDACIOUS (US) with George (skipper) and Peter Stout arrived at Nukualofa from Whangarei and sailed for Neiafu. • EDYTHE (NZ) with John Atkinson (skipper) and Peter Brown, arrived from Pago Pago and sailed for Suva. • MORTIZ B (Germany) with Harald Vass arrived from Bora Bora and sailed for Wallis Island. • JOY (US), with Harold and Angela Smith arrived from Raiatea and sailed for Suva. • PRODIGAL (Hawaii) with William and Kathy Millisen, arrived from Apia and sailed for Pago Pago. • THE EST (Hawaii) with Bertrand Lang (skipper), Robert Hutchinson and Margaret Cusick, arrived from Samoa and sailed for Fiji. • THYME (NZ), with Douglas (skipper), Grant, Maurice and Roderick McAlpine, arriv ed from Asau and sailed for Fiji.
• MERCATOR (Canada) with Douglas Barron (skipper), Donald and Nancy Rout zahn and Maureen Abbott arrived from Niue and sailed for Suva. • MANATHINE (Canada) with Roderick (skipper), Michael and Margaret Knight arriv ed from Niue and sailed for Suva. • TYELE, 48 ft American trimaran, arriv ed at Rarotonga on September 15 from Tahiti, Bora Bora, and other French Polyne sian islands. On board were co-owners William and Barbara Breheny and their teenage sons, lan, Brian, David and Donald.
Their voyage started from San Diego, Calif., and took them to the Hawaiian Islands, most of the Marquesan Islands and French Polynesia. From Rarotonga their next ports of call will probably be Niue first, then Tonga, Fiji and Australia. • SPELLBOUND 11, 50 ft ketch, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on September 16 with eight people on board, including the owner, Robin Irwin, Captain Bundy, and three children. They were bound for Fiji where Mr Irwin is the veterinary surgeon for the Fiji Government. He was returning to work after a mixed holiday-business cruise. • EDWARD RICHMOND, 60 ft ferro cement ketch with a square-rigged main mast, arrived at Rarotonga from Papeete on September 17 with Paul and Wendy Pollitt and lan, their 8-year-old son. The Pollitts built their yacht in California and, after visiting Mexico, spent 18 months cruising in the Marquesas and Society Islands. They hoped to visit some of the other Cook Islands, but their next port of call was uncer tain. • PENDRAGON, 42 ft concrete-hulled yacht, arrived in Suva in September after sailing round the world. On board were David Waters, 33, and his wife Liz, 27. They started their circumnavigation after taking part in the 1973 Auckland-Suva race. They sailed to Britain westwards from Fiji, and spent a year in England before setting out for Fiji via Panama. They planned to spend about a month in Sjva before sailing to their home in Whangarei, NZ.
• Alpha Centauri 11. 65Ft Swan
design ketch registered in Panama and own ed by three Italians from Milan, arrived in Tahiti on July 18 for a one-year visit en-route around the world. One of the owners, Giulic Belloni, skippered the boat from Italy across the Atlantic to Martinique in the Caribbean, then sailed to Panama, the Galapagos, Mar quesas and Tuamotus before reaching Tahiti.
On board in Tahiti were Geoff Bourne of San Francisco, Roberto Cuccolini of Genoa, Tom Britt of Connecticut and Julie Nelson of Wyoming. Alpha Centauri II was built in Finland in January, 1974, by Sparkman and Stephens and is made of fibreglass with a
teak deck. The skipper's plans will take them to the Indian Ocean by the winter of 1977. • BARLOVENTO, 65 ft staysail schooner from Santa Barbara, arrived in Tahiti on August 13 for her third visit. Built in 1932 by Cox and Stevens for Pierre DuPont of the chemical company family, Barlovento, now owned by Lament Cochran, Jr, left California on July 1 and sailed to the Mar quesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti, where she planned to remain for a week before cruising to the other Society Islands and eventually to Hilo, Hawaii. Sailing to Tahiti with the owner were: Rick Coe, Harry Nelson, Mike Cooke, Adriana and Leonid Kissel, Claire Hollenbeck and Genevra Gilcrest. The owner's wife and children joined Barlovento in the Marquesas for the sail to Tahiti, where they visited for a week.
• CAPELLA, 8-year-old 40 ft schooner from Coos Bay, Oregon, left California in March and sailed to the Marquesas and Tahiti, arriving in Papeete in early June for a visit of several months. Owner and skipper Jim Theroux planned to cruise the islands of French Polynesia and then sail to Panama and Florida. With him in Tahiti were Sean Wicks, Marty Perlman and Chris McConnell.
Capella is an Alden-design replica of a New England fishing schooner. • CYGNUS, 28 ft wooden sloop from Ventura, California, carrying owners Gil and Robin Maguire, both schoolteachers, sailed into Tahiti in August for an extended visit.
They left their native California in 1972 and spent one year along the Mexican and Cen tral American coast, sailed throughout the Caribbean and settled in Panama for three
years, where Gil worked as a polipeman. In March, 1976, they set sail for the Galapagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti. While anchored in the bay in Hiva Oa in the Mar quesas, they went into town and returned to find their boat had dragged its anchor and was crashing on the reef. The mayor brought 30 construction workers to the scene and they stood in the surf and pulled the boat off the reef. Very little damage was suffered. • GROCKLE, 38 ft fibreglass ketch from Southampton, England, visited Tahiti for two months before continuing circumnavigation.
Owned by Sir William Roberts and Nick Lowes, the 7-year-old Nicholson-designed boat left England in July, 1975 and has call ed at ports from Northern Spain through the Caribbean, Panama, Las Perlas, Galapagos and Marquesas, finally arriving in Tahiti in June. On board as they left Tahiti in early August were Nick and crew members An drew Charles and Sue Coates of England and Neva Griggs of California. Their next ports of call were to Suwarrow, Wallis, Fiji and New Zealand. • HUZURE, 31 ft wooden double ended cutter from Lowestoft, England, carry ing co-owners Justin Besley and Tim Beckett of London, left England in August, 1975 and sailed to Gibraltar and the Canaries, on to Barbados and Trinidad, where they enjoyed the carnival, then cruised all the Caribbean islands to Antigua. Crossing the Panama Canal, they sailed to the Marquesas and Tuamotus and arrived in Tahiti at the end of July. Their most memorable episode during their Pacific crossing was when they hit a whale 2,000 miles out of Panama, with no resulting damage to the boat. In Tahiti, Justin sold his share of the boat to Tim and planned to sail to Hawaii on JADA.