Cruising
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Yachts
• MARTINETTE, 15 metre ferro cement ketch, left Vila on October 19 for England, via Darwin, Cocos and the Seychelles. On board were Tony Hodges, medical superintendent and surgeon at the British Hospital, Vila, his wife, Joan, and daughter, Gabriel, who were returning to England, and crew of Kevin Dodds and John Doby, and John Doby's fiancee. Martinette had a rousing farewell from members of the Vila Yacht Club. • YELLOWBIRD, 50 ft sloop registered in San Francisco, arrived at Rarotonga on November 14 from Niue bound for Bora Bora and other islands of French Polynesia. On board were Scott Foster (captain), his wife, Pam, their young daughter, Erika, Bob Carlson and Australians Gail Nicholson and Jenny Gill. Yellowbird's cruise started from Hawaii in August, 1975, with calls at Pago Pago and Suva. The hurricane season was spent in New Zealand then the cruise con tinued to the New Hebrides, Suva, Tonga, Niue and Rarotonga. • PENDRAGON, 42 ft ferro-cement yacht, arrived at Auckland from Suva in November, 13 months after leaving England.
On board were David Waters, 33, and his wife Liz, 27, They had taken part in the 1973 Auckland-Suva yacht race, and then con tinued on to Britain where they remained for 13 months. On the way home they called at Madeira, the West Indies, Panama, the Galapagos, the Marquesas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Tonga and Fiji. • MYANNA 111, 9.15 metre sloop, carrying French Canadians Dan and Denise Roose, is in Papua New Guinea for the hurricane season. They are on a circum navigation, having left Montreal in September, 1973. They called at New York, Nassau, Port-au-Prince, Panama, Galapagos, the Marquesas, Ahe, Papeete, Rarotonga, Niue (they have fond memories of Peter Ell), Vavau, Suva, Noumea, Brisbane and the Barrier Reef, before reaching Samarai on November 10. At the end of April they intend to leave PNG for Darwin, Bali, Christmas Island, Cocos, the Seychelles, Durban, Bar bados, Haiti and Bermuda. They hope to be back in Canada by September, 1980. They struck a reef east of Cairns, but managed to get off without damage. • DEBORAH ANN, yacht, carrying David and Debby Beatty, left Port Moresby in November for Canada and home in Toronto.
Fhey intended to spend about three months on the east coast of Australia before crossing
the Tasman and arriving in Auckland about the middle of March. With the hurricane season behind them they will then sail for Canada, planning to arrive some time in May.
David was attached to the Central Planning Office in Port Moresby for several years. • Cruising yachts which visited Tonga recently included: SAILS OF DAWN, registered in the UK, arrived from Rarotonga on the way to Levuka in Fiji. On board were David Dring Morrell (captain), Mark Grenville Temple, Marcel Wegmiller and Allison Julie Glecker. BULLELANT, registered in Ger many, carrying Hans Furgen Rudnick (cap tain), Mrs Erika Rudnick and Oliver Jens Rud nick, arrived from Niue Island on the way to Suva. SEA LOVE, registered in Hawaii, arriv ed from Rarotonga on the way to New Zealand with Frank Lloyd jun., and Robert A.
Gibson. KLARABORG, registered in Swed en, was an arrival from Bora Bora on the way to Suva. Skipper Ove Arnold Linner had his wife, Ingbritt Elisabeth, John F. Fry. Peter Polzin, David Spencer, Mrs Janice Mclvor, Miss Michele Nance and Kurt Hensel with him KALAIS, registered in Belgium, stayed 11 days after arriving from Papeete on the way to Whangarei. She carried Victor Warofuier and Miss Plisca Piorier. RED BOOMER 11, registered in Port Moresby, stayed a week after arriving from Bora Bora on the way to Suva. On board were Andres Thomas McNeil (captain), Jonathan Lindsay Roberts, Mrs Kristine Lilian Roberts, Jeremy Wreford Roberts, William James Brown, William Thomas McNeil and Miss Yvette R.
McNeil. • LANDSEER 111, 41 ft yawl, registered in Australia and built at Sydney in 1912, is still at Majuro. The owners, Don and Robyn Coleman and young daughters, Alissa and Jennifer, had planned to sail to the United
States after their cruise from Australia. They arrived at Majuro in April, 1973, and are still in the Marshalls. Landseer 111 is for sale, and the Colemans are busy running Western Rivers Tours in the Marshalls. • WHISTLER, 53ft schooner, Murray Peterson design, registered in American Samoa, has been cruising the Pacific for six years but has been in the Marshalls for seme time. Owners Pat and Lloyd Muno are based at Majuro and doing short sails to other Marshalls atolls. They are busy refurbishing Whistler for a summer return to Honolulu or the U S. west coast. • OATAHI, 34 ft 5 ins sloop registered at Auckland, arrived at Rarotonga from Bora Bora on October 31 bound for New Zealand.
On board were Captain Harold Conway, American; Russell Shipman, South African; Susanne Schimeltzer, German, and Donald Mclnnes, Canadian. • MATRIX, 26ft sloop, arrived at Rarotonga on November 5 from Raiatea with owner-skipper Andy Butler and his friend Maurice Wong who joined the yacht at Raiatea. Mr Butler started his Pacific cruise 2V4 years ago from San Francisco, called at Hawaii and spent some time in French Polynesia. He planned to return to Raiatea. • WANDERLURE, 32ft American schooner, with single-hander Arthur Ham mond, anchored at Rarotonga on November 9 from Aitutaki and Bora Bora. Mr Hammond was bound for Rurutu and Tubuai Islands in the Austral group. • WYLO, 28 ft cutter registered in Lon don, sailed into Avantiu harbour Rarotonga on November 10 from Bora Bora with solo sailor Nicholas Skeates whose next port of call was to be Russell in New Zealand's Bay of Islands.
A happy lineup at Vila Yacht Club during a hectic farewell party for Martinette, seen below just before she sailed. Tony and John Hodges are on the right. -Photos: Allan Holmes.
• NERISHMA, 39 ft sloop registered in Brisbane, called at Rarotonga on November 10 from Bora Bora bound for Auckland with David Beard (master), his wife, Jocelyn, and children Shane and Nerida Jane. • MANU OTE MTI, 47 ft ferro-cement cutter, registered at Vancouver, British Columbia, arrived at Majuro in the Marshalls on October 5, and left for Honolulu on November 10, On board were Heinz Cien ciala (who built the boat in two years) and his wife, Muriel. The Ciencialas have been cruis ing for four years, hitting virtually every major port in the Pacific circuit. After wintering in Hawaii they will return to Canada to live in the Gulf Islands. The Manu Ote Mti (Bird of the Sea) was designed by Stan Huntingford of Vancouver and is the third boat (first ferro cement boat) built by Cienciala. The cutter boasts a washing machine, freezer, two heads, radar and assorted other features to lessen the rigours of cruising life. • LE TAK NAL (Marshallese for Miss Sunrise), 32 ft Grand Banks diesel cruiser, built in Singapore in 1971 by American Marine, is in dry dock at Majuro for extensive work to convert it to a sport fishing boat for the developing tourist trade and the existing abundance of marlin in the Marshalls. The owner-skipper William A. Nagel, brought her to Majuro in 1972 after travelling through In donesia, New Guinea, and Australia, and employed her for 32,000 miles of deep-sea charter work throughout the Marshalls. Nagel also provided news of a well-known sailing vessel, the LITTLE BEAR, a 36ft carol ketch, designed by John Hanna, built by L.F and June Champion and launched in 1948 She sailed extensively in the Pacific and was described by Eric Hiscock in his book, 'Voyaging Under Sail', as one of the oustan ding sailing vessels in existence. She was acquired by Nagel in 1969 in Honolulu and was sailed as a charter vessel throughout the Marshall Islands from 1969-1975. During the typhoon season, in the autumn (northern) of 1975 Little Bear was blown ashore in a severe westerly and badly damaged. While still in dry dock she caught fire under mysterious circumstances and was totally destroyed. Sentimental sailors in the Marshalls have insisted that her keel remains on the beach as her permanent memorial. • GARUDA, 57 ft double-ended ferro cement cutter registered at Honolulu, Hawaii, arrived at Majuro on November 4. On board were retired US Air Force officer, James P.
Hagerstrom; wife, Lee, and four of their eight children, Anastasia, Eric, Mark and Vince.
The Garuda was designed and'built in four years by the owners with some help from their children and a lot of help from friends and was launched from San Diego in Oc tober, 1974. The Hagerstroms' travel plans are flexible. They hope to reach Singapore and maybe Darwin and Port Moresby but are not tied to a schedule. According to son.
Vince, the boat's name is that of a Hindu god, ;a flying serpent. The Garuda has many un usual features, the most noticeable being the boomless mast which allows for a self-furling mainsail. • DELIVERANCE, 3Q ft Pierson sloop from Ft Lauderdale, Florida, sailed into Tahiti on September 26 with Canadians Derek Jar vis, Diane Latulippe and their Ecuadorian cat Fifou. They left Florida 2'h. years ago and cruised the Caribbean. After repairs to the tiller in Cuba they continued their trip west through the Panama Canal, to Ecuador, the Galapagos, Marquesas and Tahiti. Their plans were to remain in French Polynesia for the hurricane season before heading west. • DESTINY, 32 ft Kendall double-ended sloop from Victoria, 8.C., carrying the Green field family of Mike, Margaret and 12-year old Shawn, left Long Beach, Calif, in December, 1974 for Mexico and Central America. At the Panama Canal they turned east with the intention of sailing the Carib bean, but the weather and sea conditions were adverse, so they set a western course and returned through the canal to the Mar quesas, Tuamotus and Tahiti, arriving in Papeete in mid-May. Shawn is attending school during the hurricane season. Future plans are uncertain. 9 JELLICLE 11, 25 ft folkboat sloop owned by Englishman Make Bailes, set sail on October 16 from Tahiti to Rarotonga and New Zealand. Mike had been visiting Tahiti and Moorea since January. Bill Fehoko, a 23year-old Tongan artist who gave an art ex hibition in Tahiti in October, sailed with Mike, with plans to finish building his own sailboat and returning to Tahiti. Mike's plans include visiting French Polynesia again next year. • MARIA, 34 ft Columbia sloop, ■egistered in Switzerland, arrived in Tahiti nid-September for a visit of several months.
Aboard were Texan Don Curtis and his Swiss wife Ruthie, along with Bandido, their Otter lound. They left San Diego on March 21 for :he Marquesas and Tuamotus and planned to spend the hurricane season in Tahiti before sailing on to Europe. • NOVA, 30 ft sloop from Sydney arriv -sd, at Rarotonga on October 3 with owner saptain David Luks. His last port of call was Bora Bora and he was bound for Tonga. • SILENT DOVE, 22 ft yacht, was at Lautoka, Fiji, in September, with owner Peter Barnes, an Australian. Mr Barnes bought the in England and sailed from there in 1975, cruising off the coasts of France snd Spain and then across the Atlantic and hrough the Caribbean, before passing hrough the Panama Canal. He planned to all at Vila and Brisbane after Lautoka. • RED BOOMER 11, big 60 ft wooo <etch from Port Moresby, built and owned by skipper Bill McNeil, originally of Perth, Australia, visited Tahiti for a few weeks in September, en route around the world. Bill
raced his boat in the Sydney-Hobart race in 1974, then took his two children Yvette, 15 and Andrew, 12 on a round-the-world cruise after his wife had died. They visited the In dian Ocean, the Seychelles, the Red Sea and Mediterranean, the Caribbean to Panama, the Marquesas, Tuamotus and Society Islands. On October 2, they sailed for Tonga, Fiji, the Solomons and Port Moresby. Sailing from Tahiti besides the captain and his two children were Kristine and Jonathon Roberts, Jeremy Roberts, and an old friend. Bill Brown, who was fitted with a pacemaker just before the trip. • MAMATEEK, 36 ft Canadian cutter registered at Vancouver, arrived at Rarotonga on Octobers from Maupiti bound for Nukualofa. On board were Dr Claude Cronhelm (captain), his wife Sandra, their children Peter, Julie and Jacqueline, Dr Mar cus Navin and Paul Rasmussen. • SAYONARA, 29 ft Dutch sloop, arriv ed at Rarotonga from Papeete on October 8 with skipper Johannes Wyn and Australian Donna Taylor, Sayonara had called at the Marquesas and was bound for Tonga. • HUZURE, 31 ft cutter registered at Lowestoft, UK, arrived at Rarotonga from Tahiti on October 10 with owner Timothy Beckett and his father A. H. Beckett. Huzure
left the UK in August, 1975, bound for NZ via Panama. Plans were to call at Tonga, spend some time in NZ and return to the UK. • VELELLA, 27 ft American sloop, arriv ed at Rarotonga on October 11 with single hander Gary Pellegrini. His last port of call was Huahine and he was bound for American Samoa, expecting to leave on October 1 5. • WINDWAGON 111, 68 ft cutter, gross tonnage 75, registered at Portland, Oregon, US, arrived at Rarotonga on October 1 3 from Tahiti, Raiatea and Bora Bora, bound for Tonga. On board were owner-captain Richard L Tretheway, Sandra Tretheway and Sandra MacQuarrie Windwagon 111 is lux uriously fitted out with carpets, tapa wallhangings, a refrigerator, deep-freeze, the latest aids for fast cooking at sea, and even an organ. Mr Tretheway visited Rarotonga in April, 1973, in Windwagon 11, his 63 ft ferro-cement yacht which became a total loss after it struck the reef near the entrance to Avatiu Harbour Windwagon 111 is also of ferro-cement. • TWO SISTERS, 32 ft sloop, with owner Peter Ell of the Niue Island Blue Water Yacht CluL, which left Niue on August 27 for British Columbia, had visited Pago Pago and Tau Island in American Samoa, Pukapuka and Christmas Island by October.